Maybe Obama didn't know what "socialist" meant at that tender age...?

Hat-tip to Mike McCarville

Obama Belonged To Socialist Party In 1996

Evidence has emerged that Senator Barack Obama belonged to a socialist political party that sought to elect members to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist agenda.

Several blogs, including Powerline, previously documented that while running for the Illinois Senate

in 1996 as a Democrat, Obama actively sought and received the endorsement of the socialist-oriented New Party, with some blogs claiming Obama was a member of the controversial party.

The New Party, formed by members of the Democratic Socialists for America and leaders of an offshoot of the Community Party USA, was an electoral alliance that worked alongside the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. The New Party's aim was to help elect politicians to office who espouse its policies.

Read all of this story at http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=78945.

and MORE here at NEWSBUSTERS- "Obama Confirmed Member of Socialist New Party, Media Ignore