Socialist Obama!

While I was going through some articles I found a particularly interesting accusation that I thought was not based on any information besides opinion. But instead I followed a link that was embedded in the article which lead me to a very surprising article. The first article I found was http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/why_obamas_socialism_matters_1.html where the main point of the article addresses the history of socialism and how it considered to the point of where we are today starting from the 1920's. Even though I was not quite to interested into falling too off-topic into the interesting facts of Nazi-Germany's Socialist state. But at the top of the article I found this interesting little link that I have been meaning to bring up. This link quickly showed the strange finding of http://politicallydrunk.blogspot.com/2008/10/web-archives-confirm-barack-obama-was.html, which is an article that addressed the fact that Obama used to be involved in the “New Party” which is a “political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA”. Well, very interesting yes? I have more. Further within the article it bring up the fact that the New Party's website deleted an article from October 1996. But it was not deleted from the non-profit organization http://archive.org/ which archives numerous popular websites. Which pulled out a nice little juicy piece of evidence.

“New Party members and supported candidates won 16 of 23 races, including an at-large race for the Little Rock, Ark., City Council, a seat on the county board for Little Rock and the school board for Prince George's County, Md. Chicago is sending the first New Party member to Congress, as Danny Davis, who ran as a Democrat, won an overwhelming 85% victory. New Party member Barack Obama was uncontested for a State Senate seat from Chicago.”

You can see for yourself at http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html and http://web.archive.org/web/20000622142249/http://www.populist.com/11.96.Edit.html with its earliest archive at 2000.

But as the first article went on from that point, it brought up “...To most people, it just means Obama is a more liberal Liberal, or a leftier Lefty, and they already knew that.”

As for the original question of “Do you feel that the label 'socialism' is applied appropriately or correctly to Obama, his proposals or his policies?”, I think Americanized socialism is correctly applied to Obama,but his policies follow a mixture of democratic and solcialism.