Michelle's Boot Camps For Radicals

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY ^ | September 04, 2008 | INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

[Jeff Gordon]

Democrats' reintroduction of militant Michelle Obama in Denver was supposed to show her softer side. But it only highlighted a radical part of her resume: Public Allies. Barack Obama was a founding member of the board of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife became executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies in 1993. Obama plans to use the nonprofit group, which he features on his campaign Web site, as the model for a national service corps. He calls his Orwellian program, "Universal Voluntary Public Service." Big Brother had nothing on the Obamas. They plan to herd American youth into government-funded reeducation camps where they'll be brainwashed into thinking America is a racist, oppressive place in need of "social change." The pitch Public Allies makes on its Web site doesn't seem all that radical. It promises to place young adults (18-30) in paid one-year "community leadership" positions with nonprofit or government agencies. They'll also be required to attend weekly training workshops and three retreats. In exchange, they'll get a monthly stipend of up to $1,800, plus paid health and child care. They also get a post-service education award of $4,725 that can be used to pay off past student loans or fund future education. But its real mission is to radicalize American youth and use them to bring about "social change" through threats, pressure, tension and confrontation — the tactics used by the father of community organizing, Saul "The Red" Alinsky. "Our alumni are more than twice as likely as 18-34 year olds to . . . engage in protest activities,"

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[Jeff Gordon]

This boot camp has haunting similarities to the Muslim Janasaries schools.

[bethtopaz]

Mark Levin discussed this on his Friday radio program.

Why hasn’t the media looked into this and other myriad questionable issues and people surrounding their darling, Barack Obama?

[TheWasteLand]

"Barack Obama will require you to work. He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zone . . . Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual - uninvolved, uninformed."

-- Michelle Obama

Nothing fascist to see here. Move along.

[Emperor Palpatine]

Or the Hitler Jugend and the Soviet “Little Octobrists”

[DieHard the Hunter]

Pol Pot and Mao Tse Tung have been there and done that, successfully. This is straight out of their playbook.

[Vince Ferrer]

Why not just herd them into Americorp, or the Peace Corp? Because every democrat president deserves a legacy, even if it is to add a bunch of useless programs that can’t get killed.

[Greenpees]

$1,800 is more than the base pay, per month, of quite a few of our soldiers fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is an outrageous insult to them!

[squidly]

Not all the recruits appreciate the PC indoctrination. "It was too touchy-feely," said Nelly Nieblas, 29, of the 2005 Los Angeles class. "It's a lot of talk about race, a lot of talk about sexism, a lot of talk about homophobia, talk about -isms and phobias."

One of those -isms is "heterosexism," which a Public Allies training seminar in Chicago describes as a negative byproduct of "capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and male-dominated privilege."

I tell you, I couldn't make stuff up that was any better than this.

[nclaurel]

Sounds a lot like Michelle wants another co-Presidency. Shades of the Clintons.

[elisabethm]

I’m an alumni of the Public Allies program, so I have personal experience. You should know more of the facts about it.

Public Allies is not a radical organization. In fact, the Bush administration tripled its funding, named them a model of faith-based and community initiatives, and hired them to help other nonprofits improve their services (they teach people how to fish rather than give them fish). Also, John McCain has championed and called for more than tripling AmeriCorps programs like Public Allies if he is elected.

The organization does not sponsor, endorse or participate in partisan or protest activities whatsoever and its service is conducted in partnership with groups like American Red Cross, Boys and Girls Clubs, faith-based organizations, and even charter and choice schools.

The organization’s leadership curriculum is fairly similar to the types of leadership curricula that FORTUNE 500 companies use.

It is a shame that people will make up “facts” and distort information to attack a good organization because the Obamas have supported it.

[Stentor]

It is a shame that people will make up “facts” and distort information to attack a good organization because the Obamas have supported it.

Welcome to Free Republic. Tell us why you support Obama.

[Stentor]

I know you want to answer my question but Mr Axelrod probably needed coffee.

[Jeff Gordon]

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

[piasa]

Also, John McCain has championed and called for more than tripling AmeriCorps programs like Public Allies ...

Well that does not surprise me at all. Didn't he sponsor a similar group in Syria?

[The Westerner]

Bush and McCain surely are a ringing endorsement. Appreciate your letting us know.