According to New Zeal, Barack Obama is the latest in a long line of Chicago based politicians who were nurtured, supported, and launched into politics with coordinated support from the Communist Party USA.
Harold Washington defeated the Daley machine to win the mayoralty backed by a coalition led by Chicago’s Communist Party and the local branch of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Historian Paul Buhle wrote in a 1992 article for the Encyclopedia of the American Left;
Communists also gained from long-standing political contacts in the black community. Victories of black mayoral and congressional candidates with decades — old ties to the CP — a short list would include Coleman Young and George Crocket in Detroit, Gus Newport in Berkeley, and somewhat more ambiguously, Harold Washington in Chicago
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I quote from remarks by Illinois Communist Party organiser John bachtell to a “Special District Meeting on African American Equality and Building the Communist Party and Young Communist League, Chicago”, IL September 30, 2007
The struggle for African American representation and political independence also led to the historic election of Carole Moseley Braun for Senate and many African American state legislators and local elected officials.
Chicago Communist Party member and pro-Obama activist Pepe Lozano quoted black trade unionist Elwood Flowers in this February 23rd 2008 article from the Peoples Daily World.
The movement to elect Barack Obama today is almost identical to Washington’s, but nationwide, said Flowers. “Our members wanted to be involved in the political process, similar to people today for Obama,” said Flowers.
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In 1992 Barack Obama worked for the ACORN offshoot Project Vote to register black voters in aid of the Senate Campaign of Carol Moseley Braun. Unsurprisingly Moseley Braun had strong Communist Party and DSA ties and was Harold Washington’s legislative floor leader.
Obama helped Moseley Braun win her Senate seat, then took it over himself in 2004-backed of course by the same set that had elected his political “ancestors” Washington and Moseley Braun.
That’s all I am going to quote from the post, but there is so much more, and a lot of it will disturb you.
If this is all accurate, then it is a sad dawn of a terrible era for this nation. Even if by some miracle Obama is defeated, this movement will be with us until either free market capitalism is destroyed, or they are.
When these people declare their love for this country, it now rings as hollow as their declarations of support for the troops in the field. They claim to love America, when in fact they hate our system of living. They don’t love America, they love the idea of a Socialist America. That is their American Dream.
