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Article: THE NEW PARTY.(NATION)(INSIDE POLITICS)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 21, 2008
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Byline: Greg Pierce, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
THE NEW PARTY
During his first campaign for the Illinois state Senate in 1995-96, Barack Obama was a member of, and was endorsed by, the far-left New Party, Stanley Kurtz writes at National Review Online (www.nationalreview.com).
Obama's New Party ties give the lie to his claim to be a post-partisan, post-ideological pragmatist. Particularly in Chicago, the New Party functioned as the electoral arm of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). So despite repeated attempts to distance himself from ACORN, Obama's New Party ties raise disturbing questions about his links to those proudly militant ...