{"id":3843,"date":"2008-10-09T16:58:32","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T20:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2008-10-31T10:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T14:37:00","slug":"more-radical-connections-for-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3843","title":{"rendered":"More Radical Connections for Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Kirsanow at <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=NmM4YWZmOWQxOGVlY2JjMDI1N2I3NTY4OTUyY2Y2Njk=\">National Review <\/a>listing the radical ties that Obama has been accumulating for years wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The suggested theme for the 2004 Annual Eugene V. Debs Dinner was Dump Bush and Elect Obama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the Chicago Democratic Socialist archives, the actual title of the 2004 event was:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>46th Annual Eugene V. Debs &#8211; Norman Thomas &#8211; Michael Harrington Dinner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Eugene Debs could best be described as the father of American Socialism.  He ran for president 5 times as a Socialist.<\/p>\n<p>Norman Thomas was the heir to Debs after his death and also became a perennial presidential candidate as a Socialist.  His most famous quote should be cause for concern:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism, but under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without ever knowing how it happened.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Michael Harrington was the founder of Democratic Socialist of America.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 1980s The Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee merged with the New American Movement, an organization of New Left veterans, forming Democratic Socialists of America. This organization remains the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International.<\/p>\n<p>This organization is 100% in support of Senator Obama.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a small matter because even if Obama is not a Socialist (and that would take a lot of nuance to support), he certainly wants to be seen as one in some circles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Kirsanow at National Review listing the radical ties that Obama has been accumulating for years &hellip; <a title=\"More Radical Connections for Obama\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=3843\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Radical Connections for Obama<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}