Obama belonged to socialist "New Party"

Sometimes I have a hard time writing a headline, because the issue is so important to me that I want to make sure I sum it up accurately and correctly.

The above title is completely true. I know with the slime found on the internet, its sometimes hard to figure out what is the truth. -And there is a lot of trash out there. So let me make the case, as it was originally presented in the "Politically drunk on power" blog.

In June sources released information that during his campaign for the State Senate in Illinois, Barack Obama was endorsed by an organization known as the Chicago "New Party". The 'New Party' was a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA by focusing on winnable elections at a local level and spreading the Socialist movement upwards. The admittedly Socialist Organization experienced a moderate rise in numbers between 1995 and 1999. By 1999, however, the Socialist 'New Party' was essentially defunct after losing a supreme court challenge that ruled the organizations "fusion" reform platform as unconstitutional.

After allegations surfaced in early summer over the 'New Party's' endorsement of Obama, the Obama campaign along with the remnants of the New Party and Democratic Socialists of America claimed that Obama was never a member of either organization. The DSA and 'New Party' then systematically attempted to cover up any ties between Obama and the Socialist Organizations. However, it now appears that Barack Obama was indeed a certified and acknowledged member of the DSA's New Party.

On Tuesday, I discovered a web page that had been scrubbed from the New Party's website. The web page which was published in October 1996, was an internet newsletter update on that years congressional races. Although the web page was deleted from the New Party's website, the non-profit Internet Archive Organization had archived the page.

This was fairly carefully researched stuff.
I love this part of the net; the ability to recall what someone said back in 1996, despite their efforts to cover it up.
This is what they found:

New Party members are busy knocking on doors, hammering down lawn signs, and phoning voters to support NP candidates this fall. Here are some of our key races:

Specifically, they list off the following candidates for Illinois:

Illinois: Three NP-members won Democratic primaries last Spring and face off against Republican opponents on election day: Danny Davis (U.S. House), Barack Obama (State Senate) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary).

So if we're to believe the documents that were uncovered on the net, from 1996, the New Party (a socialist party) was proud to support New Party candidate Barack Obama.
I know that previously, there have been accusations that Barack is a socialist. Most people blow that kind of stuff off as political fluff. Its not real to them.
But in this case, its actually real.
Right voices has a good summary of everything that has been found so far.

What's interteresting to me about this is that the vast majority of the media is ignoring this.

There is proof that Obama belonged to a socialist organization. Which media outlet will be the first one to ask Obama about it? Will any media outlet ask him?

Or is Obama so Teflon, so loved, so adored, that even belonging to a socialist organization won't be cause for alarm?

-John