re: #281 darthstar

So what’s your excuse? And what socialist third party did President Obama belong to? Alaska Independent Party? No…that was the Palins. Or are you referencing his church with Rev. Wright? (If so, it doesn’t surprise me.) It certainly can’t be because he’s from Chicago…that’s also your neck of the woods.

The party was called the “New Party”. National Review writer Stanley Kurtz wrote about Obama’s joining it a few weeks ago:

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.

Minutes of the meeting on January 11, 1996, of the New Party’s Chicago chapter read as follows:

Barack Obama, candidate for State Senate in the 13th Legislative District, gave a statement to the membership and answered questions. He signed the New Party “Candidate Contract” and requested an endorsement from the New Party. He also joined the New Party.

Consistent with this, a roster of the Chicago chapter of the New Party from early 1997 lists Obama as a member, with January 11, 1996, indicated as the date he joined.

To forestall one potential objection, let me point out that ACORN and the New Party were close allies back in the 1990’s and when the New Party went under ACORN retained its records. Thus in order to examine the New Party’s data, Kurtz had to look into ACORN’s records. The article is not some Fox News anti-ACORN polemic.