Obama’s Third-Party History
New documents shed new light on his ties to a leftist party in the 1990s.
On the evening of January 11, 1996, while Mitt Romney was in the final years of his run as the head of
Bain Capital,
Barack Obama formally joined the New Party, which was deeply hostile to
the mainstream of the Democratic party and even to American capitalism.
In 2008, candidate Obama deceived the American public about his
potentially damaging tie to this third party. The issue remains as fresh
as today’s headlines, as Romney argues that Obama is trying to move the
United States toward European-style social democracy, which was
precisely the New Party’s goal.
In late October 2008, when I
wrote here at
National Review Online that Obama had been a member of the New Party, his campaign sharply denied it, calling my
claim a “
crackpot smear.”
Fight the Smears, an official Obama-campaign website, staunchly
maintained that “Barack has been a member of only one political party,
the Democratic Party.” I
rebutted this, but the debate was never taken up by the mainstream press.
Recently obtained evidence from the updated records of Illinois ACORN
at the Wisconsin Historical Society now definitively establishes that
Obama was a member of the New Party. He also signed a “contract”
promising to publicly
support and
associate himself with the New Party while in office.
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