Stanley Kurtz digs deep and reveals the truth about Barack Obama’s ties to the ultra far-left ‘New Party’ in Chicago. He was in fact a member of the New Party and was endorsed by them when he first ran for the Illinois State Senate back in 1995-1996.

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. 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 leftists. The media’s near-total silence on this critical element of Obama’s past is deeply irresponsible.

Has there ever been a candidate who surrounded himself with more Commie Pinkos than this guy?

-Chris Jones

(hat tip Ace of Spades)