ORGANIZER IN CHIEF BARACK'S CONTROVERSIAL ROOTS

Barack Obama represents the first appearance in a presidential race of a rela tively new political type: the community organizer.

His past as a local activist in Chicago has provoked sneers from Republicans and questions from most voters. What the heck is a community organizer, where do these folks get their money - and why are they so controversial?

The roots of community organizing stretch back to the 1930s and the efforts of organizer Saul Alinsky, founder of the Industrial Areas Foundation and author of "Rules for Radicals," to organize people in low-income areas into a political force to combat the political machine that ran Chicago.

Alinsky won many admirers on the Left, but it took President Lyndon Johnson's War On Poverty to supercharge community organizing by directing billions of federal dollars to neighborhood groups with the naive and ambiguous goal of "empowering" communities.

The federal cash, eventually supplemented by state and local tax funds, helped create a universe of government-funded groups headed by local activists running everything from job-training efforts to recreation programs to voter-registration drives - far beyond anything Alinsky could've imagined.

Obama’s Community Organizer Friends:

‘Community Organizer’ means so much more then the ‘no executive responsibility’, it opens the door to Obama’s radical leftist/communist roots and horrible philosophy of life which Obama and Axelrod do not want the American people to know about.

L. DAVID ALINSKY (son) sees Saul Alinsky’s (radical leftist father) handiwork in Obama convention http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/08/31/son_sees_fathers_handiwork_in_convention/

“The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style. Barack Obama’s training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness.”

L. DAVID ALINSKY in letter to Boston Globe

THE FRONT PAGE OF ALINSKY’S BOOK GIVES INSIGHT INTO THE MIND OF ALINSKY front page of leftist radical Saul Alinsky’s book here (David Alinksy’s Father):

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/hillary-clintons-idol-saul-alinsky-and-satan

Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=obama+acorn+voter+fraud&aq=3&oq=Obama+ACORN.

Obama’s Weatherman Freinds:

Connections between Obama, Ayers and Dohrn are easy to find:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ayersapr18,0,359588.story

“Since coming out of hiding in 1980, the couple have raised three boys in Chicago and become part of the fabric of their liberal South Side neighborhood. Neighbors said it’s only natural that Obama would know Ayers and Dohrn, who often open their homes for gatherings filled with lively discussions about politics, arts and social issues.”

Obama and his wife “are part of our neighborhood and part of our social circle,” said Elizabeth Chandler, a neighbor of Ayers’.

Can you imagine what the main stream media would do with a Republican candidate with a social circle that included Bill Ayres and Bernardine Dohrn ?

The main stream media is the antithesis, the exact opposite, of the heroic Lois Lane type investigative reporter. The main stream media is un-truth, un-justice and un-the American way. The main stream media is blind, biased, and intellectually lazy. All they do is regurgitate DNC talking points— they have zero independent thought and ability to think and investigate for themselves. They are not serving their shareholders, their country, or journalistic integrity, they are servants of the DNC and trapped in chains by their philosophies of life which isn’t interested in the truth. There are obvious stories here and the main stream media does nothing.

http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

In 2002 all three, Bernardine Dohrn, William Ayers and Barack Obama, where speakers at the same conference, and the number of speakers at the conference was relatively small.

“It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming ‘community organizer,’ had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World — where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working ‘only to educate’ — both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers.”

The Company He Keeps: Meet Obama’s Circle: The Same Old America-Hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==

Obama and His Weatherman Friends
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers

From the Boston Globe, August 31, 2008:

[Saul Alinsky's] Son sees father's handiwork in [2008 democrat] convention

ALL THE elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situations and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd's chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people.

The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style. Barack Obama's training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness.

It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.

I am proud to see that my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.

L. DAVID ALINSKY
Medfield

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/08/31/son_sees_fathers_handiwork_in_convention/

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From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. 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."[2]

[2] Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm

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May 29, 2008
Inside Obama’s Acorn
By their fruits ye shall know them

What if Barack Obama’s most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you’d know what I was talking about. Acorn is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because Acorn works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. Acorn likes it that way. And so, I’d wager, does Barack Obama.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI

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