Posted on 04/24/2010 7:15:33 PM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of Charles Krauthammer commenting on President Obama's speech on Wall Street Reform. Krauthammer said he was "intrigued and appalled" at the tone of Obama's speech.
"The way - and he's done this before - he tries to denigrate, cast out and to delegitimize any argument against his. Here he's talking about it's not legitimate even to suggest that the bill he's supporting might encourage a bailout....The President has this tic in which he presents himself as having this sort of academic, reasonable discourse, but it really has inside of it a sharp edge of partisanship. Look, he won the Presidency. It gives him a big house, a lot of power and a fabulous airplane, but it does not make him the "arbiter of American political discourse."
Very well put by Krauthammer. Obama, while trying to portray himself as open and tolerant, is thin-skinned and unwilling to deal with any criticism or disagreement. But that's standard procedure for those on the Left.
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Alinsky would be proud.
He was also very much behind the onerous tax on "medical appliances" and pharmaceuticals ~ again an attack on Indiana's premiere industrial activity of the current age.
Obama seems to be easily led to attack the people of Indiana who sneer regularly and openly at the corrupt cesspool the politicians in Chicago have created for themselves and all those parts of the Midwest they can sink their smarmy paws into.
That's why the Obama regime has to be brought to a big screeching halt soon ~ with all its participants, hangers on and main supporters SENT TO PRISON for the remainder of this century.
and in other breaking news the sun is hot.....
Wasn’t this pretty much his campaign tactic in Illinois?
I appreciate Krauthammer’s intellect. But I wonder if he is simply deliberately ignoring the fact that isn’t something that just happens, but is a standare operating procedure and basic tenet that Obama learned from his apostleship to Alinsky, the ridiculing and denigration of opponents.
Maybe Krauthammer feels that he cannot come out and say that Obama is an Alinskyite, and that he practices all that Alinsky believed.
As I said, I really respect Krauthammer, but something is amiss when he cannot state what is the truth when he MUST know it.
People can say what they will about President Bush, but he rarely if ever personalized his attacks and ridiculed his opponents. Even though we all recognize it was a major flaw that he did not aggressively defend his positions on many things, we should recognize that neither did he resort to what we see out of this POS in the White House.
I am originally from Indiana and one thing I remember when I use to live there. It seems like Indiana was always denigrated by those people on both coast especially the elite. One I remember is how Martin Sheen in one of his shows getting his panties in a wad about Indiana not participating in changing clocks every Fall and Spring but yet said nothing of Arizona and Hawaii. The other one is Spike Lee. After I moved to Colorado, I worked for this East Coast company and I got a lot of crap from co-workers who were originally from the DC/MD/VA area. I have been called a GD redneck many times there.
Sometimes Obama is using Alinsky tactics and sometimes he’s just using street thug tactics. Sometimes he’s just got to diss his political opponents.
This is why Palin—better than most— is able to get under his skin. She plays this game of back and forth better than he does, but with a smile. No other Republican has this knack.
On the other hand this Obama character seems to be a remarkably provincial politician. He can't get his mind out of the Chicago trick bag ~ and, he positively bristles when he thinks someone in Indiana is once again looking down their nose at him.
Well, he's gotta' get used to that. Chicago's political class are all smarm merchants. They are all corrupt. The people of Chicago are scummy and corrupt themselves for putting up with this. Someone comes along and tells you they're from Chicago you have no reason whatsoever to be polite to them!
Best put something between yourself and them and then back away slowly to a safer area.
Time for official Washington to wake up and realize that the primary reason Obama has been unable to attract capable talent to his regime is that no one wants to take the long term career hit working for the Chicago crowd exacts as a cost.
Yes. Great graphic, FrankR. I read “Rules for Radicals” in the summer of 2008, and it was one of the most despicable and immoral things I had ever read.
It was one of the most difficult books I have ever read, not because it was difficult to comprehend, but because it was all too easily comprehended.
One understands liberals adhere to those precepts set forth by Alinsky, but there was something I found profoundly disturbing about seeing those precepts codified in a book and political philosophy that is praised and adhered to by many if not most powerful liberals.
I thought this was an excellent article, written a while back by James Lewis:
Obama, Alinsky, and Scapegoats
By James Lewis
‘Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It.’
- Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals.
That’s what Barack Obama taught his ACORN followers in all his Community Agitator classes in Chicago. That slogan defines mob scapegoating, of course. It is an exact prescription for whipping up mobs — by race, by gender, by ethnicity, by religion. If you want to know how to whip a mob of Pakistani Taliban fascisti to whip a young girl for flirting with a young man in public, this is exactly what you do: Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personality It, and Polarize It.
And notice that “the target” is no longer a human being. It’s an “It.” Try substituting the word “victim” for “target,” and you see how it works.
This is exactly what the Dixiecrats did to blacks in the Jim Crow South, and what President Obama does today with capitalists who run General Motors and Wall Street.
So the purported comedienne Janeane Garofolo interprets the anti-tax tea parties as obviously racist. You see, Ms. Garofolo can read minds, in spite of all the obvious decency of the tea party protesters. And Obama’s Department of Homeland Security has now pinpointed our chief terrorist danger: It’s “right-wing extremists,” including Iraq War vets coming back home.
In psychiatry, scapegoating is called “displacement of rage,” and it is often said to be a low-level defense, one that comes easily to people who are already emotionally troubled or impaired. With mature adults scapegoating doesn’t work very well — not unless you can make them into insecure wrecks by destroying their incomes, for example. That’s what happened to the German middle class in the Weimar Republic. It’s what will happen in this country if the economy fails to recover. That is why it is so vital to keep the administration from its most extreme spending plans, which could harm the economy if the Democrats in Congress are foolish enough.
Scapegoating is very simple, and very malevolent. It is the defining feature of human destructiveness. All the truly irrational actions in human history involve displaced rage. Pathological societies in the world are always torn by a search for new scapegoats.
Scapegoating is a really effective manipulation for mobs that have long ago decided that their real enemy is... anybody. Because that overwhelming feeling of rising rage matters much more than whoever is the victim of the moment. That overwhelming tension is intolerable and seeks an outlet.
For instance, the target could be the kulaks.
“Comrades! ... You need to hang (hang without fail, so that the public sees) at least 100 notorious kulaks, the rich, and the bloodsuckers. ... This needs to be accomplished in such a way, that people for hundreds of miles around will see, tremble, know and scream out: let’s choke and strangle those blood-sucking kulaks. ...
Yours, Lenin.” (italics added)
That’s Lenin the mob leader after the Bolshevik revolution. ‘Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It.’ The kulaks were Russian peasants who owned a couple of cows instead of just a scrawny goat like most others, and therefore provided juicy hate objects for the mob. Lenin knew how to whip up those mobs because that’s how it was done during the four centuries of Romanov rule before the Revolution. It is deeply ingrained in Russian folklore — you can see it in the opera Boris Godunov, where a pair of Orthodox priests whip up a mob to kill two Catholic priests, foreigners from Poland. That was just before 1500 AD.
Scapegoating is emotional high explosive that you can direct at will, like those fire-spewing proton packs in the movie Ghostbusters. You just ‘Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It.’ It’s like pulling a trigger on human emotions and watching the human target get blown away. We’ve seen it ever since the Boomer Left took over the media, most recently with the abuse heaped upon George W. Bush.
Saul Alinsky was born in 1909 of Russian Jewish parents in New York City. Why was the Alinsky family living in America in 1909 rather than Minsk or Pinsk or Omsk or Chomsk? Because they fled the Russian pogroms of 1890-1910, like thousands of other Jews.
I don’t know if Alinsky’s parents were direct victims of the peasant mobs, but chances are that his aunts or uncles or grandparents must have been. I have a friend whose grandmother was knouted to death by Cossacks in Poland in the 1920’s. I don’t think her grandchildren and great-children have ever come to terms with that horror, even though they are living in the next century in America. It is a multigenerational trauma. Horrific traumas can have that effect. In the Jim Crow South blacks were scapegoated by the very same kinds of mobs, led by the very same kinds of agitators — virtually all of them white Democrats. It seems that some blacks are still experiencing the emotional ripple-effects, decades later.
Now follow this closely: The Alinsky family fled to the United States because life was intolerable in the old country. They found safety in America. Emma Lazarus was another Jewish immigrant, who understood the difference between the Old and New World well enough. She wrote about the Statue of Liberty,
“A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.”
Emma Lazarus must have been an extraordinary woman, because her poem brims with gratitude for the New World: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...”.
That is a very different feeling than the young Saul Alinsky harbored. Little Saul must have seen the Statue of Liberty often enough on the skyline of his childhood. But he never understood it the way Emma Lazarus did. We can only wonder why, because thousands upon thousands of persecuted refugees kept flowing into New York City when he was growing up.
And then little Saul grew up and wrote Rules for Radicals, and dedicated his life to ... the very same art of whipping up mobs that his parents fled from. Rules for Radicals might have been written by a medieval mob agitator; only a few words need to be changed. ‘Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It.’ Substitute “heretic” or “witch” for “target” and you have all the religious persecutions in human history. Substitute “blacks,” and you have a Dixiecrat lynch mob. Substitute “whites,” and you have all of J-Wright’s sermons at Trinity United, Chicago. It’s all the same thing. Human nature doesn’t change. Alinsky:
“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.”
Funny thing is, Emma Lazarus thought that America was the revolution those huddled masses were looking for.
Alinsky did not write his little book of Rules against the Tsar of Russia, nor against mob demagogues in general; rather, he wrote it in a rage against free market wealth, against capitalist individualism, against the prosperous middle class and its most successful home, the United States of America. Alinsky became the hero for other agitators — people who used to call themselves “communist agitators.” Those were not shameful words when little Saul was growing up, they were proud words.
Agitare comes from the Latin word for “stirring up,” the same root as the word “activist.” A “community activist” is just a slightly different name for the old phrase “communist agitator” — one who stirs up a group, just like those old hairy demagogues in Tsarist Russia and Poland, and then in Soviet Russia, Germany, China and Cambodia, in Rwanda and Kosovo, the Punjab and Indonesia ....
Question: How is it that little Saul Alinsky, child and grandchild of victims, became the new persecutor?
Here is a strange twist of fate. Starting with the huge expansion of the US college campuses in the Sixties, Saul Alinsky’s little book went viral. Alienated middle-class kids with no personal experience of poverty or suffering — in the sense that blacks knew it in the South and the Jews and many others in Europe and Asia — they all went around with Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals in their backpacks. Radicalism became romantic. Alienated and ignorant kids yearned to become Che Guevara and kill the capitalists. That’s how rich kids like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn learned their theology. It’s how they became heroes in their own eyes. Such saintly people, giving their all for the poor and helpless.
Hillary Rodham complained about her authoritarian father when she was a child, and instantly on getting to Wellesley she fell for Saul Alinsky and his Rules, and became an admiring disciple of the Master of Scapegoating. Hillary’s first major political act was to join the staff of the Senate Watergate Committee, where she wrote a legal brief for the Committee on why President Richard Nixon should not, repeat not, be allowed legal counsel in his impending impeachment and trial.
‘Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It.’
See how it works?
So the persecuted become the persecutors. Hillary the victimized child — at least in her own mind — became the really visceral hater of the Clinton White House. The black victims of mobs in the South had children and grand-children, some of whom — by no means all — became the Reverend J-Wright, or Louis Farrakhan. The children of victims of Russian persecution, some of them — by no means all — became romantic Alinsky radicals. Those children of wealth worshipped men of violence, and sanitized them — Che, Mao, Fidel, Carlos the Jackal, Ayers, Mumiah, the list goes on.
The Reverend J-Wright preaches mob incitement. It’s all over his sermons. His younger successor in the same church, Rev. James Moss III, has his own style of incitement. He tells his congregation that black people will never be accepted by whites; they are lepers, with an ugly skin condition that makes them diseased outcasts forever. Sweet, ain’t it? The worst Dixiecrat agitator during Jim Crow couldn’t have put it worse than that.
Take the rage that people feel and direct it to the most convenient human victim. ‘Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It.’ J-Wright started life as a Black Muslim, as he tells it, and then studied Black Liberation Theology. What’s BLT? Well, Pope Benedict says it’s a cover name for Marxism. In this case, racial Marxism. Which brings us right back to Lenin whipping up the Bolshevik mobs to kill the kulaks.
It doesn’t matter where you direct the rage. Brazil’s Marxist president Lula blames “white people with blue eyes.” We are living in a time of reverse racism, having flipped Dixiecrat racism to the other side. The tragedy is that we have not transcended race, not and as long as racial demagogues can squeeze this new hatred for money and power. The Obamas are the very incarnation of reverse racism. That is why they felt the need to show contempt to the Queen of England, and to bow down to the pre-medieval King of Saudi Arabia. In the next four years, or eight, or longer, you will see them do that over and over and over again, because that is their lifelong obsession.
Barack Obama and Michelle attended J-Wright’s church for twenty years, and had their little girls baptized and raised at Trinity United. Our President was brought up by a mother who was a young college radical from Mercer Island, WA, and Kansas. His absentee father in Kenya was a proud post-colonial socialist — until, it seems, he ran into trouble with Jomo Kenyatta and had two car accidents in a row; the second one of which killed him. But Barack Obama didn’t draw the rather obvious lesson that his father may have been assassinated by a typical post-colonial tyrant. Instead, he adopted the side of the persecutor in the same way the young Saul Alinsky did. Obama grew up in his early years in Indonesia, where hundreds of thousands of ethnic Chinese had recently been massacred by — you guessed it — raging ethnic mobs looking for scapegoats. Oddly enough those Indonesian massacres are not mentioned in Obama’s two autobiographies.
Obama’s first boyhood mentor was the CPUSA’s guy in Hawaii, a black man filled with racial rage and resentment, and little Barry was handed on from one radical friend to the next, in a long chain by way of Harvard Law to the Chicago Democrat Machine. The one big gap in his autobiography is his college years at Columbia, but knowing what we know we can fill that in pretty well. He married Michelle, herself a daughter of an African-American ward boss and friend of Jesse Jackson, who made a brilliant career out of scapegoating corporations for money, power and personal fame. Then Barack was taught politics by Emile Jones, the political godfather of Southside.
There’s only one useful rule for predicting human beings:
People tend to do in the future what they did in the past.
So Barack Obama is now President of the United States.
What will he do?
How about ‘Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It and Polarize It?’
There go those AIG bonus guys. Let’s tax ninety percent of their bonuses and smear them in the media. Done.
There goes Rick Wagoner. Let’s kill his career at GM. Done.
Let’s try to rouse up the mob against Rush Limbaugh. Oops! Forget it -— he’s got his own megaphone. Next time just go for the ones who can’t protest.
Now he darkly threatens trying officials responsible for making policy in the Bush administration.
Life will be so much better then, won’t it?
Or will it?
I live in Arizona and I’m waiting for the attack on my state. It’s going to be bad.
Absolutely. He is no different from any other Alinsky disciple other than he is given even more of a pass from those in the press, who should be holding him accountable, than the previous Alinsky-ridden Dem administration.
Hey, that’s some good info, man...I appreciate it. I saved it in my files.
Krauthammer hits the nail on the head again. He’s brilliant!
Not only the left, but those who are wrong, and who are losing the argument. See that style of rhetoric and you see a signal to believe the opposite of all that the speaker is saying.
No problem, thanks for posting this. Your thread has two components that I find compelling, Krauthammer and liberal adherence to the “teachings” of Alinsky.
Most Americans do not understand this at all, this President and his slavish devotion to this twisted, perverted and immoral political philosophy. I do, and it frightens, depresses and angers me.
The more that hear about it, the better off we shall be, so...thanks for posting.
Not only the left, but those who are wrong, and who are losing the argument. See that style of rhetoric and you see a signal to believe the opposite of all that the speaker is saying.
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