Community Organizer or President ?.......(What have we here ?)

Intellectual Conservative ^ | March 5, 2009 | Jack Ward

[IrishMike]

The advantage of the Delphi/Alinsky technique is to preserve the illusion that there is community participation and agreement in the decision making process.

I was very curious when President Obama held a "Fiscal Responsibility Summit" less than a week after signing a budget-busting Stimulus Bill. Obama asked summit participants to break up into groups and to report back in a few hours with recommendations. The groups submitted their inputs but the results of the recommendations would come a few days later. Expecting serious responses within this short time period made the process suspicious.

The very next day the House of Representatives passed a $410 billion pork-laden spending bill that contained 8,878 earmarks. Either Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi didn't get the word about "fiscal responsibility" or Obama was speaking with a forked tongue. After reviewing the inputs from the previously mentioned "Fiscal Responsibility Summit," Obama submitted his $3.55 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010. This was done under the guise of "A New Era of Fiscal Responsibility." Obama promised to reduce the deficit and eliminate earmarks. But neither of those things happened. Saying one thing and doing another is common with politicians but this is so blatant I wonder how long it will fool the people. Manipulating small groups of people is common, but now we are seeing manipulation on a nationwide scale. Where would someone learn the techniques for such mass manipulation?

Knowing that Obama had spent considerable time as a "community organizer" in the home town of Saul Alinsky, I was suspicious that the Delphi/Alinsky techniques to manipulate groups of people were being used. I am aware of these techniques because I have used these techniques and have been in groups where they were used.

The RAND Corporation developed the Delphi Technique for the U.S. Department of Defense as a psychological warfare weapon in the 50s and 60s. Saul Alinsky, noted Leftist and spiritual mentor of the youthful Barack Obama, noted the advantages of controlling the masses and adapted special techniques for teachers – it was called the "Alinsky Method." Alinsky promoted his methods in his 1971 book Rules for Radicals. Rules has become the handbook for community organizers, change agents, and fellow travelers.

Bev Eakman wrote in "Educating for the New World Order" that the advantage of the Delphi/Alinsky techniques was to preserve the illusion that there is community participation and agreement in the decision making process. Eakman pointed out that these techniques are used to manipulate groups of people to agree to something they oppose. This slight of hand technique is used by many government agencies to defuse opposition. As a result, the Delphi or Alinsky techniques have become common when group "consensus" is desired.

Richard Poe wrote that the youthful Obama was "trained by Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation," and that "Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method." "In 1985 (Obama) began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project." "Later, Obama worked with ACORN and its offshoot Project Vote, both creations of the Alinsky network."

So it is apparent that Obama has more experience as a community organizer and the Alinsky techniques of manipulating the masses than he does as a politician. It is only natural for Obama to fall back on what he knows and is comfortable with when faced with monumental challenges. So it is not unexpected that Obama would revert to using his community organizing skills when addressing national problems.

Obama has mastered the Delphi and Alinsky techniques and it is apparent to me that these techniques will guide him throughout his presidency. Therefore, to understand President Obama and what guides him, I suggest that you read the works of Saul Alinsky.

[IrishMike]

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."

Margaret Thatcher

[gunnyg]

“Community Organizer or President ?.......(What have we here ?)”
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Can it be honestly claimed that he is potus—the question answers itself.

[gunnyg]

“Community Organizer or President ?.......(What have we here ?)”
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Can it be honestly claimed that he is potus—the question answers itself.

[NonValueAdded]

Flashback to the 60's, the formative years for Obama's mentors:

Ten Years After: I'd Love to Change the World

♫Tax the rich, feed the poor
Till there are no rich no more♫

Ever notice that the lyrics don't go "until there are no poor no more?"

Whoopie, we're ALL poor! Now what?

[Thrownatbirth]

Sooner or later, adults will have to replace this empty-suited, rabble-rousing street baffoon of a President.

[blueyon]

After reviewing the inputs from the previously mentioned “Fiscal Responsibility Summit,” Obama submitted his $3.55 trillion budget for fiscal year 2010. This was done under the guise of “A New Era of Fiscal Responsibility.” Obama promised to reduce the deficit and eliminate earmarks.

Obama is paying offs those that helped him get elected. The earmarks will become part of the budget and NEXT YEAR he can say no more earmarks (see boys and girls I’m really keeping my promise not to spend ...any more)cause it’s already in the budget.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The adults left town.

[Leg Olam]

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.”
— Winston Churchill

[ETL]

Saul Alinsky on "Change"...
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."

Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain (LatterRain.com is a "Liberation Theology" commie-left website -etl)
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm
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"The Communist Party USA views the 2008 elections as a tremendous opportunity to defeat the policies of the right-wing Republicans and to move our country in a new progressive direction.

The record turnout in the Democratic Presidential primary races shows that millions of voters, including millions of new voters, are using this election to bring about real change. We wholeheartedly agree with them."

http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/907/1/4/
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A Landslide Mandate For Change

Congratulations on an extraordinary history making election!

We can think back with pride to decades of hard work toward our strategic goal of a big enough, broad enough and united enough labor and all-people’s movement that could overcome the ultra-right blockage to all progress. That all people’s movement has come to life, it is dynamic and it has the potential to keep growing.

The election of Barack Obama and a strengthened Congress creates new conditions in our country. There is now the possibility to shift gears and move forward. This new day requires us to further develop our tactics in order to continue to deepen and broaden labor and people’s unity.

There are thousands of experiences that we all have had in these momentous days, some large, some small, all of which express the enormity of change in thinking and readiness for involvement that is underway and that steels us for the battles ahead.

The tears of joy we all shared as crowds gathered to watch the election results here and throughout the world dramatize the new moment we are in.

http://cpusa.org/article/articleview/991/1/154/
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"Barack Obama told supporters that
'change has come to America' as he
claimed victory in a historic presidential election."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html

[Semper Mark]

“What have we here?”

...”nuthin’...a hand full of nuthin’.”

[gunnyg]

and the curious case of chester arthur....

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2008/12/11/historical-breakthrough-proof-chester-arthur-concealed-he-was-a-british-subject-at-birth/

of course, with the arnold trial ballon preceeding “h,” it may well be that arnold is next in line....providing “h” can ever be gotten rid of at all....

[ElayneJ]

Reading Alinsky’s book now. Page, by page, it’s what we saw in the campaign and what we’re seeing in the administration. obama thinks we’re all stupid and he’s playing the American people like a violin.

[ETL]

Flashback to the 60's, the formative years for Obama's mentors: Ten Years After: I'd Love to Change the World

The Lost John Lennon Interview
"Power to the People"

TA (interviewer): In a way you were even thinking about politics when you seemed to be knocking revolution?

JL (Lennon): Ah, sure, 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'. The original version which ends up on the LP said 'count me in' too; I put in both because I wasn't sure. There was a third version that was just abstract, musique concrete, kind of loops and that, people screaming. I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution--but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

On the version released as a single I said 'when you talk about destruction you can count me out'. I didn't want to get killed. I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off. I just thought it was unsubtle, you know. I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. That was how I felt--I was really asking a question. As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

http://beatlesnumber9.com/lostlennon.html

[ETL]

Dow now at 666...! (gulp!)

[nascarnation]

I’m not so sure.
Combine racial politics / illegal immigrants with income redistribution and I fear Baraq will build a permanent Chavez type majority.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." -- Thatcher

And after that, come the leg irons.

[oneolcop]

Community Organizer or President ?.......(What have we here ?)

What we have here is Mr. BOjangles

[davisfh]

"Community Organizer or President ?.......(What have we here ?)"

To answer the question - more than likely a Chicago steet pimp.

[IrishMike]

Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.
Ronald Reagan

[mojitojoe]

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money
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He isn’t a socialist. He is a COMMUNIST. Just say it.