Politico did look into Obama’s 1996 campaign. They posted this answer he provided to a questionaire which says he’s running as a Democrat and admits he was “endorsed” by the New Party:
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM41_obamaquestionaire1newest.html
If you look at that questionaire, it’s really left-wing stuff. No decent politician would even brag about being “endorsed” by the New Party, but I’m sure Obama will use the questionaire as proof that he wasn’t an actual member of the party.
Even if was “just” endorsed by the New Party, he would have had to gone through an extensive grilling in front of a New Party panel as well as sign a contract with them.
Thank you very much for posting that.