Posted on 09/07/2008 12:55:08 PM PDT by FreedomLives2008
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Zero is starting to irritate my gag reflex!
Right. Well I had to stop reading when it described Obama politically as center-left. Who pays these ‘community agitators’ salary anyhow? Doesn’t sound like they have any real responsibilities other than to shoot off their mouths and make people feel like victims.
“...at least to his 24-year-old ears.”
Apparently Obama was ALL EARS!
I'm not that familiar with Chit-cago history- how many black mayors have they had since?
Very interesting.
Thanks for posting.
TNR is doing the investigative reporting that WaPo and Slimes have refused to do.
Reminds me of North Vietnamese self-criticism sessions.
That’s what I’ll do. I’ll organize black folks. At the grass roots. For change.”
A racist from the very start.
The first and most fundamental lesson Obama learned was to reassess his understanding of power. Horwitt says that, when Alinsky would ask new students why they wanted to organize, they would invariably respond with selfless bromides about wanting to help others. Alinsky would then scream back at them that there was a one-word answer: "You want to organize for power!"What a contrast to this:Galluzzo shared with me the manual he uses to train new organizers, which is little different from the version he used to train Obama in the '80s. It is filled with workshops and chapter headings on understanding power: "power analysis," "elements of a power organization," "the path to power." Galluzzo told me that many new trainees have an aversion to Alinsky's gritty approach because they come to organizing as idealists rather than realists. But Galluzzo's manual instructs them to get over these hang-ups. "We are not virtuous by not wanting power," it says. "We are really cowards for not wanting power," because "power is good" and "powerlessness is evil."
II Corinthians 12:7-10: "And because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me--to keep me from exalting myself. Concerning this I entreated the Lord three times that it might depart from me. And He had said to me, 'My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.' Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast about my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore, I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ's sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong."
No wonder the these creeps view Christianity as an obstacle.
It's downright chilling.
“...what a contrast...”
Yes and you pointed it out perfectly in this word picture.
Thank you piasa.
Community Organizers used Saul Alinksy’s “Rules For Radicals” as their game plan. Main aim was to infiltrate the public schools with “outsiders” for radical reasons. It seems the NEA used a similar text book!
I found a number of questionable statements in this article, the question of Obama’s birthplace for one.
That Obama came up through the corrupt Chicago political machine certainly should not set well with the American voter.
Thank you VERY much for posting this fascinating piece. I somehow missed it last year.
After reading this- it shows me once again, that Obama has socialism running in his veins- it’s how he was indoctrinated and trained- and if we look at the ground game his campaign has- and the smear tactics, it’s all based on Alinsky’s Rules.
Thank you for posting. This author intends it to be a glowing account of Obama as a community organizer, but he is so blinded by his leftist ideology that he doesn’t realize how scary this stuff is to “normal” Americans. How can we condense this relationship between Obama, Galuzzi and Alinsky so people understand that what he is doing is agitating through the political process so he can destroy all they hold dear and rebuild America as a socialist utopia?
I agree, great post....
I got a new and different picture of Obama out of this.
He is shrewed, calculating, power hungry, Macchiavellian, incredibly ambitious ...and not to be underestimated.
But I don’t have a clue where his heart resides - he will do or say anything to get power, but once he has it I don’t know what he’ll do with it.
A lot like Bill Clinton, but more ruthless and smarter.
I know this, now that Palin has energized our base, over the next couple of months we’re going to see the dirtiest, knock-down, in-the-mud, political wrestling match of our lives.
I don't really see him that way at all. I see him as a guy who had everything come easy because he was fairly intelligent and black. The I see a guy, like Bill Clinton, in the right places at the right time and a political machine who felt they could use to create a narrative.
I just see him as taking advantage to what, up to this point, came fairly easy to him. A tool.
Interesting that both he and Clinton had absent fathers and probably the anger, resentment and motivations that can cause in young men.
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