Posted on 11/03/2008 12:26:29 AM PST by RobinMasters
WND has learned that a senior Obama campaign staffer involved in marshalling college students and other campaign volunteers to get out the vote tomorrow is an anti-military extremist who, even during the popular first Gulf war, steered minority youth away from service in the military.
Sen. Barack Obama hired Jamillah Muhammad, an early community organizer friend in Chicago, to help train young volunteers in the "ruthless" agitation tactics of the late socialist organizer Saul Alinsky. The training sessions have been held at something called "Camp Obama" inside the campaign's Chicago headquarters.
Muhammad, a black Muslim, led anti-military counseling in Chicago during the Gulf war to steer young blacks away from supposedly racist military recruiters who she claimed took advantage of their joblessness and poor education. Her Chicago Coalition of African-American Religious Women sponsored "peace clubs" and other youth-training programs as a non-military alternative for young minorities.
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LAZARUS LONG
Wouldn't it have been more productive, and less confrontational, to have told his “followers” to sharpen their “wits”, or their “arguments”?
How can it be that McCain, like Bush; could never ID the enemy we face here at home?
As for IDing the enemy, he probably realizes that IF he does lose in the Presidential election, he is going to have to go back to work in Washington, D.C. with Obama as President.
I think Mr. McCain, and Joe the plumber, have done a much better job of defining who Obama is than Obama, himself, has done.
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