Flashback 1996: Obama Has Prominent Role at Socialist Conference of Democratic Socialists of America

Flashback 1996. Barack Obama was never shy about associating with known socialists. In Barack Obama's mind, socialism is progressive and libertarianism is extremism. Barack Obama was a far back as 1996 in the vanguard of the socialist movement. The liberal establishment did much to try and airbrush Obama's extremist background but here is the documentary evidence. What is the goal of the Democratic Socialists America and their conferences?

We are socialists because we reject an international economic order sustained by private profit

Do you think the hacks at MSNBC or the New York Times will ask Obama about any of this?