Obama Radical Organizing
Obama on Nuclear Disarmament, via Stop the ACLU
Obama and the Radicals, Rick Moran
[snip]And what comes to the fore is clear evidence that Barack Obama isn’t just an ordinary liberal like a Kennedy or a Clinton. Obama’s associations and associates reveal someone who has courted far Left activists, participated in far Left forums, and belonged to far Left organizations.
On top of that, his stint as a community organizer was marked by his training in radical organizing. My colleague at American Thinker, Kyle-Anne Shriver, delved into this aspect of Obama’s early adulthood:
Barack Obama had just graduated from Columbia and was looking for a job. Some white leftists were looking for someone who could recruit in a black neighborhood in the south side of Chicago.Obama answered a help-wanted ad for a position as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago. Obama was 24 years old, unmarried, very accustomed to a vagabond existence, and according to his memoir, searching for a genuine African-American community.
Both the CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned how to “rub raw the sores of discontent,” in Alinsky’s words.
And Alinsky’s writings on radicalism and social change should chill the bones of not only conservatives, but more moderate liberals:
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families – more than seventy million people – whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971].”If this doesn’t sound like the way Obama is running his stealth campaign, I don’t know what does.
It’s the same impulse among those Democrats who think Castro is cool and Chavez is a hero. And in Obama’s case, if the American voter ever gets the full story, the party could be facing a defeat in a year where all the stars were aligned in their favor.
You MUST go read the entire article here.
Ortho: Thanks for that link, it's a great article. Much appreciated.
Posted by: Debbie | February 28, 2008 at 12:49 PM
wow! he has all the answers AND hope?!?
what is the left thinking, debbie - better yet, with what?
your site has been bogging my p.c. down badly - am trying to figger out what it is...
Posted by: nanc | February 28, 2008 at 09:42 AM
His correct name: Barak Insane Obama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQx45ro_PT8&feature=related
Posted by: David | February 28, 2008 at 09:19 AM
Said it before, I'll say it again: some choices we have in '08. The least of three evils adopts some of the perilous positions of the worst two.
Still, a vote for Obama or Hildebeest is a vote for defeat.
Posted by: Skunkfeathers | February 28, 2008 at 07:42 AM
Interesting article, Debbie. I just finished reading a blog post about Obama entitled, "The Chicago Delusion." You and your readers may find it of interest: http://strategicfailure.blogspot.com/2008/02/chicago-delusion.html
Posted by: ortho | February 28, 2008 at 07:34 AM