| − | '''Progressives for Obama''' (renamed as '''Progressive America Rising'''<ref>[http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/ Keep On Keepin' On...,] | + | '''Progressives for Obama''' also known as '''Progressive America Rising'''<ref>[http://carldavidson.blogspot.com/ Keep On Keepin' On...,] |
| | the blog of Carl Davidson. Retrieved March 13, 2010.</ref> is a group of [[new left]] [[radical]]s that was announced in the ultra leftist ''[[Nation magazine]]''<ref>[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/hayden_et_al/print Progressives for Obama]], By Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich, ''The Nation'', March 24, 2008.</ref> in 2008. The group was largely composed of members from the [[Committees of Correspondence]] and the [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS). The Committees of Correspondence openly advocates [[socialism]] and has defended the [[Communist]] [[regime]] of [[Fidel Castro]]. The SDS spawned the violent domestic [[terror group]] the [[Weather Underground]] (WUO), founded by [[William Ayers]] and his wife [[Bernadine Dohrn]], family friends<ref>[http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1278532,bill-ayers-barack-obama-book-111308.article Ayers: Obama was 'family friend'], Kara Spak and Abon Pallasch, Chicago SunTimes, November 13, 2008.</ref> of [[Barack Hussein Obama]] and carried out bombings of the [[Pentagon]], the [[U.S. Capitol]], the [[State Department]] and several police headquarters in the 1970s. | | the blog of Carl Davidson. Retrieved March 13, 2010.</ref> is a group of [[new left]] [[radical]]s that was announced in the ultra leftist ''[[Nation magazine]]''<ref>[http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080407/hayden_et_al/print Progressives for Obama]], By Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich, ''The Nation'', March 24, 2008.</ref> in 2008. The group was largely composed of members from the [[Committees of Correspondence]] and the [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS). The Committees of Correspondence openly advocates [[socialism]] and has defended the [[Communist]] [[regime]] of [[Fidel Castro]]. The SDS spawned the violent domestic [[terror group]] the [[Weather Underground]] (WUO), founded by [[William Ayers]] and his wife [[Bernadine Dohrn]], family friends<ref>[http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/1278532,bill-ayers-barack-obama-book-111308.article Ayers: Obama was 'family friend'], Kara Spak and Abon Pallasch, Chicago SunTimes, November 13, 2008.</ref> of [[Barack Hussein Obama]] and carried out bombings of the [[Pentagon]], the [[U.S. Capitol]], the [[State Department]] and several police headquarters in the 1970s. |