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and presidential candidate Barack Obama are under fire for displaying

a flag featuring communist hero Che Guevara. But Obama has his own controversial

socialist connections. He is, in fact, an associate of a Chicago-based

Marxist group with access to millions of labor union dollars and connections

to expert political consultants, including a convicted swindler.



Obama’s socialist backing

goes back at least to 1996, when he received the endorsement of the

Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for an

Illinois state senate seat. Later, the Chicago DSA newsletter

reported that Obama, as a state senator, showed up to eulogize Saul

Mendelson, one of the “champions” of “Chicago’s democratic left”

and a long-time socialist activist. Obama’s stint as a “community

organizer” in Chicago has gotten some attention, but his relationship

with the DSA socialists, who groomed and backed him, has been generally

ignored.



Blogger Steve Bartin, who has been following Obama’s

career and involvement with the Chicago socialists, has uncovered a

fascinating video showing Obama campaigning for openly

socialist Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Interestingly, Sanders,

who won his seat in 2006, called Obama “one of the great leaders of

the United States Senate,” even though Obama had only been in the

body for about two years. In 2007, the National Journal said that Obama had established himself

as “the most liberal Senator.” More liberal than Sanders? That is

quite a feat. Does this make Obama a socialist, too?



DSA describes itself as the

largest socialist organization in the United States and the principal

U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International. The Socialist International

(SI) has what is called “consultative status” with the United Nations.

In other words, it works hand-in-glove with the world body.



The international connection

is important and significant because an Obama bill, “The Global Poverty

Act,” has just been rushed through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,

with the assistance of Democratic Senator Joe Biden, the chairman, and

Republican Senator Richard Lugar. The legislation (S.2433) commits the U.S. to spending

hundreds of billions of dollars more in foreign aid on the rest of the

world, in order to comply with the “Millennium Goals” established

by the United Nations. Conservative members of the committee were largely

caught off-guard by the move to pass the Obama bill but are putting

a “hold” on it, in order to try to prevent the legislation,

which also quickly passed the House, from being quickly brought up for

a full Senate vote. But observers think that Senate Democrats may try

to pass it quickly anyway, in order to give Obama a precious legislative

“victory” that he could run on.



Another group associated with

the SI is the Party of European Socialists (PES), which heard from Howard

Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, back in 2006.

Dean’s speech is posted on the official Democratic Party website,

although the European socialist parties are referred to as “progressive.”

Democrats, Dean said, want to be “good citizens of the world community.”

He spoke at a session on “Global Challenges for Progressive Politics.”



Following up, in April 2007,

PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen reported that European socialists held a meeting

“in the Democrats HQ in Washington,” met with officials of the party

and Democratic members of Congress, and agreed that “PES activist

groups” in various U.S. cities would start working together. The photos of the trip show Rasmussen meeting

with such figures as Senator Ben Cardin, Senator Bernie Sanders, officials

of the Brookings Institution, Howard Dean, and AFL-CIO President John

W. Sweeney, a member of the DSA. The Brookings Institution is headed

by former Clinton State Department official Strobe Talbott, a proponent

of world government who was recently identified in the book Comrade J as having

been a pawn of the Russian intelligence service.



The socialist connections of

Obama and the Democratic Party have certainly not been featured in the

Washington Post columns of Harold Meyerson, who happens not only to be a member

but a vice-chair of the DSA. Meyerson, the subject of our 2005 column, “A Socialist at the Washington

Post,” has praised convicted inside-trader George Soros for manipulating

campaign finance laws to benefit the far-left elements of the Democratic

Party. Obama’s success in the Democratic presidential primaries and

caucuses is further evidence of Soros’s success. Indeed, Soros has

financially contributed to the Obama campaign.



It is not surprising that the

Chicago Democrat, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, has endorsed Obama. Schakowsky, who endorsed Howard

Dean for president in 2004, was honored in 2000 at a dinner sponsored

by the Chicago chapter of the DSA. Her husband, Robert Creamer, emerged

from federal prison in November 2006 after serving five months for financial

crimes. He pleaded guilty to ripping off financial institutions

while running a non-profit group. Before he was convicted but

under indictment, Creamer was hired by the Soros-funded Open Society Policy

Center to sabotage John Bolton’s nomination as Ambassador to the U.N.



After his release from prison,

Creamer released a book, Listen to Your Mother: Stand up Straight:

How Progressives Can Win, described by one blogger as the book that

was “penned in the pen.” A blurb for the book declares, “Some

people think that in order to win, Democrats need to move to the political

center by adopting conservative values and splitting the difference

between progressive and conservative positions. History shows they are

wrong. To win the next election and to win in the long term, we need

to redefine the political center.”



In addition to writing the

book, Creamer is back in business, running his firm, Strategic Consulting

Group, and advertising himself as “a consultant to the campaigns to

end the war in Iraq, pass universal health care, change America’s

budget priorities and enact comprehensive immigration reform.” His

clients have included the AFL-CIO and MoveOn.org. In fact, his client list is a virtual who’s who of the Democratic

Party, organized labor, and Democratic Party constituency groups.



Creamer’s list of testimonials comes from such figures as Democratic

Senators Dick Durbin (Ill.) and Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Harold Meyerson,

MoveOn.org founder Wes Boyd, and David Axelrod, a “Democratic political

consultant.”



Axelrod, of course, is much

more than just a “Democratic political consultant.” He helped State

Senator Barack Obama win his U.S. Senate seat in 2004 and currently

serves as strategist and media advisor to Obama’s presidential campaign.