Posted on 02/11/2011 1:58:11 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
The room was packed with dignitaries last week as President Barack Obama addressed the annual National Prayer Breakfast. But Mr. Obama singled out one person—Sen. Tom Coburn—as a particular friend and "brother in Christ."
"I keep praying that God will show him the light, and he will vote with me once in a while," Mr. Obama told the crowd, to laughter. "It's going to happen, Tom!" he added playfully. "A ray of light is going to beam down!"
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“I keep praying that God will show him the light, ...”
Ah yes, 0 mocking the Christian God again.
being cynical and thinking he’s fooling most of us rubes out here . .
“Ah yes, 0 mocking the Christian God again.”
Obama believes he is a god.
Look back at some of Coburn’s actions and you will see his turn towards the maoist.
Ah yes, 0 mocking the Christian God again.
Yes, exactly. This can be taken as playful banter, or mocking the belief system of the “Christian Right”. When this is put together with many other statements of Obama, I tend to take it as mocking as well.
“..being cynical and thinking he’s fooling most of us rubes out here.” ~ Twinkie
He’s just following the RULES Alinsky layed out on how to radicalize the “rubes” in middle America:
[Saul].....Alinsky scolded the Sixties Left for scaring off potential converts in Middle America. True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.”
While his ultimate goal was nothing less than the “radicalization of the middle class,” Alinsky stressed the importance of “learning to talk the language of those with whom one is trying to converse.”
“Tactics must begin with the experience of the middle class,” he said, “accepting their aversion to rudeness, vulgarity, and conflict. Start them easy, don’t scare them off.”
To appeal to the middle class, Alinsky continued, “goals must be phrased in general terms like ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’; ‘Of the Common Welfare’; ‘Pursuit of happiness’; or ‘Bread and Peace.’”
He suggested, for instance, that an effective organizer “discovers what their [the middle class’] definition of the police is, and their language [and] he discards the rhetoric that always says ‘pig’ [in reference to police]. Instead of hostile rejection he is seeking bridges of communication and unity over the gaps….
He will view with strategic sensitivity the nature of middle-class behavior with its hang-ups over rudeness or aggressive, insulting, profane actions. All this and more must be grasped and used to radicalize parts of the middle class.”
A related principle taught by Alinsky was that radical organizers must not only speak the language of the middle class, but that they also must dress their crusades in the vestments of morality.
“Moral rationalization,” he said, “is indispensable to all kinds of action, whether to justify the selection or the use of ends or means.” “All great leaders,” he added, “invoked ‘moral principles’ to cover naked self-interest in the clothing of ‘freedom,’ ‘equality of mankind,’ ‘a law higher than man-made law,’ and so on.”
In short: “All effective actions require the passport of morality.” ...”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2670289/posts?page=2#2
Oh, far beyond that...bttt... he believes he is the messiah, as do many of his supporters:
Obama invokes religious themes as 2012 campaign nears (you gotta read this)
You Shall Know Them by Their Ideals
Related: American Thinker: "[T]he most moralistic president since Jimmy [Carter] is also a moral coward. Not surprising, is it? Moralizing is just another way of propping up one's ego. Morality is making the tough choices when life presents us with a clear choice between good and evil."
An article in the Wapo a few years ago revealed that da One struck up a friendship with Coburn on the recommendation of a staff member (Rouse, I think). It is pure political strategy and opportunism. Too bad Coburn does not see through it.
How do you know he doesn't?
Alinsky sounds like he was a cynical, arrogant, manipulative piece of work who thinks the founders of this country were all like him. The way he saw others was just a reflection of his own bankrupt soul, and he could fathom no other sort of human soul in anyone else.
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