Doggone Blog: “Nothing here … move along!”

“Nothing here … move along!” So say Obama’s supporters and his propaganda media flunkies about his history of affiliations with organizations, people and institutions with socialist and far left inclinations. His New Party endorsement in 1995 is just one of many of his radical leftist/”stealth” socialist links and easily confirmed by anyone who cares to do even a modicum of investigation.

Yet the following is a typical personal attack statement by one of his adoring supporters: “No, the President isn’t a socialist; everybody sane knows he isn’t a socialist …”. There you have it folks. If you think Obama is a socialist, you’re insane! Oh yes; disregard any and all publicly available and verifiably factual evidence to the contrary.

I believe it was Euripides (480—406 a.d.) who said, “Every man is like the company he wont to keep.” So let’s have just a small look at some of Obama’s “company”.

Saul Alinsky	link	He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals
Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour	link	Al-Mansour is an outspoken hater of the United States, Israel, and white people generally & patron of Barack Obama & recommended him for admission to Harvard Law School in 1988.
William Charles Ayers	link	ACORN CO-FOUNDER and Obama neighbor. SDS member. Weather Underground member.
Heather Tobis Booth	link	Founder & President of the socialist Midwestern Academy & "initiator" of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee (forerunner of Democratic Socialists of America)
Paul Booth	link	One of America’s key leftist activists. In the 1960s he was National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society. Paul Booth - A real power in AFSCME, Booth serves as Executive Assistant to Gerald McEntee, and is regarded by many as the ‘brains’ of the organization.
Caroline Boss	link	Marxist Occidental College Obama classmate
Harry Boyte	link	Theorist favored by Midwest Academy. Obama studied his work and he advised Obama's 2008 campaign.
David Brock	link	Founder of MediaMatters.com (liberal blog)
Mohammed Hasan Chandoo	link	Marxist and Pakistani associate circa 1980 and major campaign bundler for Obama
Frank Marshall Davis	link	Communist writer and poet (1905-1987) and Mentor to a young Barack Obama in the 1970s
Bernardine Rae Dohrn	link	Lifelong socialist and Obama friend. SDS member
John C. Drew	link	Marxist - Met Obama & Chandoo 1980 thru Caroline Boss
Gregory A. Galluzzo	link	Gamaliel founder & United Neighborhood Organization of Chicago co-founder with Mary Gonzales , was one of Obama's teachers
Patrick Gaspard	link	Obama political advisor, ex-activist & agitator for far left organizations such as New Party, the Communist Party offshoot, the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
Jacquelyne D. Grimshaw	link	Activist Obama neighbor & friend. Served as a senior advisor & director of intergovernmental affairs under Harold Washington, Chicago's far left Mayor, who was backed by Communist Party USA
Anne C. Hallett	link	2004 - 2005 worked with Illinois ACORN and National ACORN - A Bill Ayers & Obama supporter
Thomas Emmet Hayden	link	former husband of actress Jane Fonda. A co-founder of SDS. Obama supporter.
Keith Kelleher	link	Keith Kelleher is the head organizer for the SEIU Local 880 and contributes to Progress Illinois. He is the husband of Madeline Talbott.
Jackie Kendall	link	A high official of Midwest Academy & on Public Allies board.
John McKnight	link	Obama’s "community organizer mentor". Helped recruit Obama to Midwest Academy.
Cecilia Muñoz	link	Appointed by Obama, Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council & ex-La Raza Senior Vice President for the Office of Research, Advocacy and Legislation
Alice Palmer	link	ex-Illinois socialist leaning senator. Recommended Obama as her successor in Illinois senate
Wade Rathke	link	founder of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 100
Madeline Talbott	link	Was the head organizer for Illinois ACORN & has been a field organizer, lead organizer & head organizer in many ACORN cities across the country. In 2000, she celebrated her 25th year as an organizer with ACORN & early organizers of the Chicago New Party
Jeremiah Wright	link	Obama's pastor. "...not God Bless America. God damn America."[
Quintin Young	link	Obama confidant & high official in Chicago chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)
Progressive Chicago	link	The creation of SEIU, ACORN, Democratic Socialists of America and the Communist Party USA breakaway group Committees of Correspondence
Midwest Academy	link	Obama's organizing mentors had ties to it & his early funding was indirectly controlled by it. Created a new way of blending socialism, community organizing & electoral politics

A lengthy feature by the Associated Press earlier this week asked the rather strange question, "Is Obama A Socialist?" A better question might be: Why doesn't the public know it?

It should come as no surprise that President Obama stands farther left on the political spectrum than any president in history.

After all, his $831 billion stimulus, TARP, auto industry takeover, crackdown on Wall Street and the banks, housing market manipulation, ObamaCare, wealth redistribution, and demonization of American business and profits are only a few examples of Obama's abiding belief in leftist principles.

What's strange is the mainstream media's continued efforts to debunk the idea that Obama is a socialist — recently going so far as to liken him to President Reagan, an absurd idea if ever there was one.

Fact is, Obama's socialist background runs deep — as IBD showed in a 21-part series that ran in 2008.