http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=177773A recently released book touts evidence showing President Barack Obama was a member of a socialist political party whose aim was to move Democrats far leftward to ultimately form a new political party, one that had fully embraced a socialist agenda.
The book, "The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists," also documents how key leaders of the socialist New Party helped to craft recent White House legislation, including Obama's "stimulus" bill.
Last week, a poll conducted by Democracy Corps, the firm of James Carville and Stan Greenberg, showed 55 percent of likely voters find "socialist" an accurate label for Obama.
"The Manchurian President," the New York Times bestselling book by WND senior reporter Aaron Klein and researcher Brenda J. Elliott, presents newspaper evidence showing Obama was listed in 1996 as a member of the socialist New Party.
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Previously, it was documented that while running for the Illinois state Senate in 1996 as a Democrat, Obama actively sought and received the endorsement of the New Party.
The New Party, formed by members of the Democratic Socialists for America and leaders of an offshoot of the Communist Party USA, was an electoral alliance that worked alongside the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. The New Party's aim was to help elect politicians who espouse its policies to office.
Among New Party members was linguist and radical activist Noam Chomsky.
Obama's 2008 presidential campaign responded to the allegations concerning his involvement with the New Party, denying the politician was ever a member of the party.
"The Manchurian President" reports on copies of the New Party News, the party's official newspaper, which show Obama posing with New Party leaders, list him as a New Party member and include quotes from him.
The party's Spring 1996 newspaper boasted: "New Party members won three other primaries this Spring in Chicago: Barack Obama (State Senate), Michael Chandler (Democratic Party Committee) and Patricia Martin (Cook County Judiciary)."
The paper quoted Obama saying, "These victories prove that small 'd' democracy can work."
The newspaper lists other politicians it endorsed who were not members but specifies Obama as a New Party member.
New Ground, the newsletter of Chicago's Democratic Socialists for America, reported in its July/August 1996 edition that Obama attended a New Party membership meeting April 11, 1996, in which he expressed his gratitude for the group's support and "encouraged NPers [New Party members] to join in his task forces on voter education and voter registration."
In an exclusive e-mail interview with Klein presented in Marxist activist Carl Davidson, a New Party founder, recounted Obama's participation with his organization.
"A subcommittee met with [Obama] to interview him to see if his stand on the living wage and similar reforms was the same as ours," recalled Davidson.
"We determined that our views on these overlapped, and we could endorse his campaign in the Democratic Party," Davidson wrote in the e-mail.
Davidson wrote that he personally handled some of the New Party member databases and attending most of the party's meetings.
Davidson remembers Obama attending one New Party meeting to thank attendees for voting for him.
Davidson said that to his knowledge Obama was not a member of the New Party "in any practical way" – using qualifying language.
Becoming a New Party member requires some effort on behalf of the politician. Candidates must be approved by the party's political committee and, once approved, must sign a contract mandating they will have a "visible and active relationship" with the party.
Asked whether Obama signed the New Party contract, Davidson replied there was "no need for him to do so."
"At the end of our session with him, we simply affirmed there was no need to do so, because on all the key points, the stand of his campaign and the New Party reform planks were practically the same," Davidson told Klein.
Davidson is also a notorious far-left activist and former radical national leader in the anti-Vietnam movement. He served as national secretary for the infamous Students of a Democratic Society antiwar group, from which the Weatherman domestic terrorist organization later splintered.
Davidson denied the New Party was specifically a socialist party, claiming, "The vast majority of active members were low- and middle-income blacks in the inner city fighting for their immediate demands."
But the socialist-oriented goals of the New Party were enumerated on its old website.
Among the New Party's stated objectives were "full employment, a shorter work week, and a guaranteed minimum income for all adults; a universal 'social wage' to include such basic benefits as health care, child care, vacation time and lifelong access to education and training; a systematic phase-in of comparable worth and like programs to ensure gender equity."
The New Party stated it also sought "the democratization of our banking and financial system – including popular election of those charged with public stewardship of our banking system, worker-owner control over their pension assets [and] community-controlled alternative financial institutions."
The New Party, established in 1992, took advantage of what was known as electoral "fusion," which enabled candidates to run on two tickets simultaneously, attracting voters from both parties. But the New Party went defunct in 1998, one year after fusion was halted by the Supreme Court.
New Party founder helped craft 'stimulus' bill'
"The Manchurian President" documents how the Apollo Alliance, whose board members include a slew of radicals, has been credited with helping to craft portions of the $787 billion "stimulus" bill signed into law by Obama.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in mid-2009: "The Apollo Alliance has been an important factor in helping us [the U.S. Senate] develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them."
The Alliance boasts on its own website that it helped to craft "clean energy" portions of the bill.
The Apollo Alliance claims it was founded in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks "to catalyze a clean energy revolution in America."
Among its board members are a grouping of radicals, including Joel Rogers, a founder of the socialist New Party, Van Jones, President Obama's controversial former "green jobs czar," and Jeff Jones, a founder of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist group.
Van Jones resigned in September after it was exposed he founded a communist revolutionary organization and signed a statement that accused the Bush administration of possible involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Jones also called for "resistance" against the U.S.
Green For All, a group co-founded by Jones, is a formal backer of Brown's IMPACT Act. Jones himself described the Apollo Alliance mission as "sort of a grand unified field theory for progressive left causes."
Jeff Jones spent time on the run from law enforcement agencies while his group, the Weather Underground, carried out a series of bombings of U.S. government buildings.
Jones joined the Students for a Democratic Society, or SDS, from which the Weathermen splintered in the fall of 1965. Two years later, he became the SDS' New York City regional director, a position in which he participated in nearly all of the group's major protests until 1969, including the 1968 Columbia University protests and the violent riots that same year at the Democratic National Convention.
In 1969, Jones founded the Weathermen with terrorists William Ayers and Mark Rudd, when the three signed an infamous statement calling for a revolution against the American government inside and outside the country to fight and defeat what the group called U.S. imperialism. President Obama came under fire for his longtime, extensive association with Ayers.
Jones was a main leader and orchestrator of what became known as the Days of Rage, a series of violent riots in Chicago organized by the Weathermen. The culmination of the riots came when he gave a signal for rowdy protesters to target a hotel that was the home of a local judge presiding over a trial of anti-war activists.
Jones went underground after he failed to appear for a March 1970 court date to face charges of "crossing state lines to foment a riot and conspiring to do so." He moved to San Francisco with Ayers' wife, Bernardine Dohrn. That year, at least one bombing claimed by the Weathermen went off in Jones' locale at the Presidio Army base.
Jones' Weathermen took credit for multiple bombings of U.S. government buildings, including attacks against the U.S. Capitol on March 1, 1971, the Pentagon on May 19, 1972, and a 1975 bombing of the State Department building.
Obama called 'Manchurian President'
Meanwhile, with nearly 900 citations, "The Manchurian President" bills itself as the most exhaustive investigation ever performed into Obama and his radical background and ties. Among the many finds of "The Manchurian President":
* A coalition of extremists, including a founder of William Ayers' Weather Underground domestic-terrorist organization, helped craft Obama's "stimulus" bill;
* Obama's health-care policy, masked by moderate populist rhetoric, was pushed along and partially crafted by extremists, some of whom reveal in their own words that their principal aim is to achieve corporate socialist goals and a vast increase in government powers;
Extremists are among Obama's "czars" and other top advisers. New information links top advisers Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett to communist activists. The book uncovers correspondence in which a communist confesses to mentoring and educating Axelrod and helping the top Obama aide to secure his first job. Obama then later worked with the same communist, the book finds;
* Copious research reveals more about Obama's deep ties to Ayers, uncovering for the first time where and how Obama first met Ayers – and it is much earlier than previously believed
* Important aspects of Obama's carefully covered-up college years, with new details of his student career at Occidental College and later at Columbia University revealed
* Obama's early years, including his previously overlooked early childhood ties to a radical, far-left church, are documented
* Obama's associations with the Nation of Islam, Black Liberation Theology and black political extremists are also revealed, with extensive new information on the subjects;
* Obama's deep ties to ACORN, which are much more extensive than previously documented elsewhere, are covered. The book also crucially describes how a socialist-led, ACORN-affiliated union helped facilitate Obama's political career and now exerts major influence in the White House.
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