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Newly-Uncovered Email Denies One of Obama’s Radical Connections – But Is That Possible?

Oct. 23, 2012 9:30am Charles C. Johnson

This is a special contribution by freelance writer Charles C. Johnson.

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Carl Davidson Denies Obama Never Member of Socialist New Party

Obama at the anti-war rally. (Photo source: http://keywiki.org/images/8/8e/Speech650.jpg)

While self-styled progressives may be disillusioned with Obama, at least one long-time radical supporter is still supporting him. And a newly-uncovered email by that supporter reveals an interesting denial.

“I know [Obama’s] not a consistent progressive, I know the man, worked on his very first campaign [for State Senate in 1998], and got him to give that first antiwar speech. He was my third choice, after Kucinich and Richardson dropped out,” Carl Davidson wrote on his Facebook page after the first presidential debate in early October.

Davidson, a former Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) leader, was the former co-chair of Chicagoans Against the War in Iraq (CAWI), a group instrumental in launching Barack Obama’s political career at a October 2, 2002 anti-war speech. Davidson later led Progressives for Obama and the Marxist Committees of Correspondence in the 1990s. Video of Obama’s remarks at that event no longer exists, except for thirteen seconds, but the fact that former SDS members launched Obama’s career is confirmed by the recollections of other activists, many of them SDS.

Former SDS leader Marilyn Katz discussed Obama’s involvement in a 2007 posting. “Meeting in a living room in Chicago just ten days earlier, we chose to act agreeing that on October 2^nd, 2002, we would assemble in Chicago’s Federal Plaza to stand against the war,” Katz recalled. “Long time leaders like Jesse Jackson, Juan Andrade [a Latino community activist] and Julie Hamos and a new voice…not yet known to the crowd, to the media or to the nation… the voice of State Senator Barack Obama.” [Ellipses in original.]

A screen shot of Davidson’s Facebook post.

Still another member of Chicagoans Against the War in Iraq (and SDS leader) was Don Rose, the former spokesman for the National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, that was one of the largest groups protesting the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968. The Chicago Tribune, describing the October 2 rally, called Don Rose a “former 60s radical” and CAWI a group of “longtime lefties with ties” to the Vietnam War effort. Rose was also a Harold Washington strategist. Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, was a progressive icon that Obama saluted in his book “Dreams From My Father,” and whose career he hoped to emulate.

Other enthusiastic early supporters included Bernice Bild, a former socialist activist, and Marcia Rothenberg, former vice president of the Cook County Nurses Association. Both were members of Hyde Parkers for Peace and Justice and later soured on Obama for moving toward the center in his 2004 campaign, writing in the Hyde Park Herald, “Your early opposition to the war in Iraq was the catalyst for our support. Now, as your friends, we want to convey our disappointment at your retreat from that position.”

But Obama’s connections to radical groups goes beyond CAWI and SDS, and that’s where Davidson comes back in. There have also been longtime rumors about Obama’s past involvement in the socialist New Party that considered the Democratic Party too moderate. Stanley Kurtz author of “Radical-in-Chief” and the investigative researcher who first broke news of Obama’s involvement with the New Party, has even reported Obama signed a “contract” promising to represent the Party while in office.

“There is no doubt that Barack Obama was a member of the New Party,” Kurtz told TheBlaze. “We now have definitive proof of that in the form of minutes from a New Party meeting that explicitly say Obama ‘joined the New Party.’ The minutes also confirm that Obama signed the New Party’s ‘candidate contract,’ which contained a promise to support and openly associate with the party. We also have a complete roster of Chicago New Party members from early 1997 that lists Obama as a party member and confirms that he joined on January 11, 1996, the same day the minutes indicate that he joined. …[C]laims by some New Party veterans that he was not an active member are also false.”

In an email obtained by TheBlaze from June 2012, however, Davidson denies that Obama was intimately connected to the group.

“I was there when we interviewed him for the [New Party] endorsement, and on the spot we decided he didn’t need to ‘sign the contract” with us because his views on the living wage and redlining were identical to ours,” Davidson wrote. “We helped him in the campaign, along with a few other candidates, he won, he came to one meeting and thanked us, and that was it.”

“I helped manage the [New Party] membership lists, too,” Davidson added. “If someone signed him up later, I have no idea, but I think I would have heard about it. Also, the NP was NOT a socialist party—in fact it was designed NOT to be a socialist party, not even social-dem—and many socialists in Chicago opposed us because of this.”

Davidson also had strong words for conservatives who pointed out Obama’s New Party affiliation.

“This is a fool’s errand on the part of the far right, trying like hell to find some way to make Obama into a socialist, when any idiot can see that’s he’s not, and never has been–not even close. I’ve told them this many times, but they just choose to ignore it, or twist my words to make me say the opposite. Typical garbage on their part,” he wrote at the time.

But Kurtz disagrees.

“Carl Davidson’s denial that Obama was a New Party member is either an honest mistake based on misinformation, a case of faulty memory, or an intentional deception intended to suppress evidence of Obama’s radicalism,” he tells TheBlaze. “Carl Davidson was one of the top leaders of a Chicago New Party faction that was in a heated dispute with a more powerful faction during the precise time that Obama joined the party. We know that attendance at Chicago-wide New Party functions by Dan Swinney, another leader of Davidson’s faction, fell off sharply during the period when Obama joined. If Davidson’s attendance at Chicago-wide party meetings fell off around the same time as Swinney’s, it may help explain his claim that Obama never joined the party.”

“At any rate,” he concludes,” Davidson’s denial that Obama was a party member is flatly proven wrong by contemporaneous New Party documents.”

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Comments (25)

calmandcents
Posted on October 24, 2012 at 1:41pm
It has become okay, if not fashionable for two reasons: (1) the dumbing down that has occurred over the past 40 years, and (2) the degradation of morality, values, principles, and character.

Responsibility? Look in the mirror. We are all guilty!

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zapped
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 11:34pm
Somehow I don’t think it much matters to the ignorant public. If all he’s done so far hasn’t sparked outrage with a larger % of the voters then I don’t feel too good in a close election like this. What the hell happened to this country?

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babylonvi
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 5:12pm
This society has degenerated so much that calling, even proving someone is a communist is not a matter of concern. This was finally proved to me last night as CNN had the avowed Marxist Revolutionary Van Jones as a commentator for the third debate. Unbelievable!

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zoro51
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 12:55pm
once a communist a SOCIALIST a LEFTIST a MARXISt always a LEFTISTS never an american…. IMPEACH N THROW OUT OF THE USA OBAMA NOW END THIS ****

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thegreatcarnac
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 12:40pm
Hussein Barrack Obama is a marxist and a criminal. He is NOT a citizen and should not be in his position. This will be proven. Obama’s people have spent millions trying to erase, doctor, and obscure his past. You do not spend that kind of dough for nothing.

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pap pap
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 12:32pm
Big Question:

Why would someone who was doing as good of a job as he professes to be doing say ,before the campaign even started, that he would be assembling $! billion for his campaign ???

Sounds to me that he knows that he has a terribly tough road to ho.

If you are doing a good job you wouldn’t need to spend this kind of cash to get re-elected.

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tonypro
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 12:21pm
“Carl Davidson’s denial that Obama was a New Party member is either an honest mistake based on misinformation, a case of faulty memory, or an intentional deception intended to suppress evidence of Obama’s radicalism,”

My vote is on–”intentional deception”

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blackyb
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 11:26am
Do not EVER feel sorry for the left again. They are a group of psychopaths who will NOT feel sorry for ordinary citizens. They want this America under the rule of elitists. They look cowed, but they are going to be planning 24/7 against America. They hijacked the Democrat party decades ago and are not who the Democrats started out to be. They took their anti-Americanism to the Max and it will be that way and worse until they are sent out of the country. Any party or group who goes against the Constitution of this land should be outsed by True Americans and believers in our Constitution. Bring back education and teach the youth the Constitution and keep other countries from influencing our educational system. If they want to come to American the right way, they will assimilate or leave.

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- tipofthespear42
  Posted on October 23, 2012 at 12:00pm
  Amen!!!!
  
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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 11:19am
If we were to get a really accurate portrayal of Obama’s true character, we’d have to get a peek at the video of Obama’s speech to a group of pro-Palestinian activists under wraps by the LA Times. The paper will not release the video. if they did, it would lead to the biggest margin of victory imaginable for Romney.

Speaking of video, when will Obama release the video from the Benghazi consulate’s security system? How about the surveillance drone videos, Mr. President? How about all that transparency, Mr. Obama?

What a laugh!

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blackyb
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 11:00am
They are wanting to disconnect until they can regroup. All of them. They and he know they did this once by stealth showing no connections until they were in, now they are wanting to regroup by not appearing to regroup.

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PaulreveresDarknight
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 10:27am
The Commies cant even trust him. His best friends say hes a lying back stabber. Think we have a Psycho. He really had some satanic (marxist) looks at depate. Or maybe He knew. Everyone else does ;)

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- blackyb
  Posted on October 23, 2012 at 10:56am
  They are withdrawing because they know he likely will not win (unless he cheats the election.) It is most likely a lie to perpetrate a lie. They know what they are and are still trying to protect him by not acknowleging him. They are doing it for him, likely at his own behest.
  
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chucksue351
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 10:12am
they like the term progressive because it has a high and lofty sound, but the reality of the matter is that they are marxist and will take power to achieve their goals any way they can (the end justifies the means) is their long time logo, we should just ignore them

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G-WHIZ
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 10:04am
Oh, and the ADMIN “allowed” an email to be “accidentally found”.

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- tonypro
  Posted on October 23, 2012 at 12:24pm
  Yeah right, and pigs don’t deteriorate on the ocean floor, I mean don’t fly.
  
  Couldn’t help myself :-}
  
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Proverbs17-12NLT
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 9:55am
Oh if the democrat news channels vetted this ******, he’d still be on a street corner community disorganizing and smoking pot.

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Ilikepeople
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 9:52am
It seems like people don’t need to watch Progressives as much as people need to watch themselves. It seems to me that Progressives are trying to divide in people’s minds what a Progressive is, what entails a Progressive. Creating a conflict in one’s mind of what is and isn’t a Progressive whereby exhaustion sets in from beating up your own mind, and [self distrust]. It’s just a thought. But I know this: in a world where the truth is that innate intelligence is King, you’ll always be pulling up the rear by telling yourself it is not.

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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 23, 2012 at 10:03am
  People can make themselves equal through mental and physical labor, but people are not born equal, but they are entitled to equal liberty to try to advance. If people were truly born equal, then the United States would have never needed a Declaration of Independence, and a Constitution stating all men are born equal.
  
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- Ilikepeople
  Posted on October 23, 2012 at 10:27am
  See because people exist upside-down, and the reality is that the mean wicked thing to do is to tell people that innate intelligence isn’t King. Because when people know there is people who are just naturally more intelligent (more than likely because of their previous life), then therefore people will labor more vigorously to advance. And that’s because the fact of the matter is that nearly all people know deep, deep, deep down inside (their soul knows) that people really are born with higher innate intelligence, but the education system tries to make it not seem that way, and therefore their lie is conflicting with the soul, and making people feel held down, but yet entitled.
  
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- RonnieF
  Posted on October 23, 2012 at 10:58am
  It doesn’t say we’re all born equal, we’re created equal.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 9:44am
Most people know Barry is a Marxist based on his past associations and his communist mentor. His radical friends are trying to hide his Marxist ties to various groups and that’s no surprise. His base is mind numbingly stupid and obtuse,oblivious to the fact that by supporting this worthless Marxist mulatto POS they’re participating in their own demise. Unfortunately for the rest of us we’ll be taken down as well. Marxism relies on the big lie and that’s all we’ve got from this Marxist regime from day one.

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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on October 23, 2012 at 9:59am
  Marxism is the biggest of lies in the worlds history.
  
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denkat56
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 9:39am
i know he just sat there and ignored all the talk, isnt that right jerimiah.

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Gary_K
Posted on October 23, 2012 at 9:33am
I say BS….barry is a marxist.

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