Barack Obama is a socialist...

Following Obama's notorious statement about "spreading the wealth around is good for everyone" (link) - and the obvious socialist tint of that, some new information has come out about his past political associations.

Remember when everyone made that big fuss about Todd Palin being a registered member of a radical third party in Alaska? Well now it has been shown that he was a member of the "New Party" (established by the Democratic Socialists of America) - a party that has been proven unconstitutional. Funny how it is so big an issue for the spouse of the VEEP canidate being part of a radical third party, but not when it is the actual POTUS candidate from the other side...

When the news of this first came out Barack Obama was quick to say that he had been endorsed, but never a member of the party, and that he couldn't control who supported him or not.
This is untrue.
Following the links in this article (politicallydrunk and American Thinker) it is clear that he was indeed an active member of the party and sought out their endorsement.

The first part of his statement that he was not a member was thus a lie, and the second part is untrue, because if he actively sought out their endorsement then he did have control over their supporting him, at least to an extent.

The article also reveals that the party then systematically attempted to cover up this connection, purging articles from websites.


Another interesting note (from this link) reveals that by 1995 ACORN was at the same time the biggest asset for the New Party, supplying a large number of registrations every month.
By 1996 ACORN and the New Party were essentially the same body.

Obama was the council representing ACORN in 1995, and from 1995 - 1999 (the same year that the new party was found unconstituional and died) he led the CAC which supplied funding to ACORN and was the brain child of Bill Ayers. He remained on the board until 2001.

From all this it is clear that Obama was a member of a radical Socialist Party. It is also clear, once again, that he has lied on an important issue and has proven once again that you can't trust him at face value.


EDIT:
It is a little difficult to find anything about Obama and the New Party on the web at this point, but the old google (link) which was released recently, shows what google looked like in early 2001 - with links to the web archive for any pages you find with it...
It has revealed some interesting things so far...