According to Joel B. Pollack at ???Breitbart: Big Government??? and Stanley Kurtz at ???National Review On Line,??? in spite of misrepresentations of Obama???s presidential campaign in 2008, and in spite of the efforts of Politico???s Ben Smith to quash the story, Barack Obama was a member of the socialist New Party in the 1990s and sought its endorsement for the Illinois senate [from ???Obama???s