claim: "i was the first member of congress to call him (barack obama) a socialist..."
author: paul broun
evidence_1: the democratic socialists of america (dsa) is a left-wing organization of  democratic socialist, ... in 1982, it merged with the new american movement ( nam), a coalition of intellectuals with roots in .... in the 2018 midterm elections,  the dsa had anticipated seeing the first dsa member in congress and reaching  100 elected ...
evidence_2: jul 23, 2018 ... will her democratic-socialist identity push the party to the left? ... and ben  shapiro called her a member of the “howling at the moon” segment of the ... a  phone-bank caller for the obama campaign in 2008, but she devoted much more  ... at first, b.n.c. wanted to field candidates for every congressional seat.
evidence_3: feb 13, 2013 ... i was the first member of congress to call him a socialist who ... paul broun said  of obama in an interview monday with the associated press.
evidence_4: aug 21, 2018 ... democratic congressman adam smith on his ocasio-cortez-style ... who says  his dem-socialist challenger is totally wrong about him ... during a phone  interview, the congressman called that claim "insane," defended his record, and  ... i was the first democrat in the state to come out publicly against the ...
evidence_5: jul 26, 2012 ... on the political right, many call president obama a socialist, because ... actually,  lenin tried to implement pure socialism when he first came to power, but when  his ... two), one finds that team obama and his congressional progressive ... dr.  mark w. hendrickson is an adjunct faculty member, economist, ...