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            The reason Gov. Sarah Palin and Rudy Guiliani mentioned Barack’s credentials as a community organizer with a wink and a jab is that Barack himself has offered that experience as evidence that he is experienced enough to be our President.

            Since that time Obama has been acting like a child who has had the candy licked off his cherry tootsie-pop. The MSM has rushed to his side to defend their man-child Presidential pretender.

            The more Obama and his surrogates try to defend this moniker, the more they draw attention to revealing facts that they have been trying to conceal.

            What is a community organizer? No one has publicly disclosed the true nature of the job, but it is not really hard to find the definition. We need to look no further than a book by Saul Alinsky entitled Rules for Radicals. The name Saul Alinsky may sound familiar because this man’s life and legacy was examined in Senator Hillary Clinton’s doctoral thesis “There is only the Fight, An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.” Rudy Guiliani mentioned the name in his speech at the 2008 Republican Convention when referring to Barack’s community organizer title. The term, community organizer as used by Saul Alinsky is revealed in the following quote:

In 1971, Saul Alinsky wrote an entertaining classic on grassroots organizing titled Rules for Radicals. Those who prefer cooperative tactics describe the book as out-of-date. Nevertheless, it provides some of the best advice on confrontational tactics. Alinsky begins this way:

What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be.  (Sound familiar?) The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.

His “rules” derive from many successful campaigns where he helped poor people fighting power and privilege

For Alinsky, organizing is the process of highlighting what is wrong and convincing people they can actually do something about it. The two are linked. If people feel they don’t have the power to change a bad situation, they stop thinking about it.

According to Alinsky, the organizer — especially a paid organizer from outside — must first overcome suspicion and establish credibility. Next the organizer must begin the task of agitating: rubbing resentments, fanning hostilities, and searching out controversy. This is necessary to get people to participate. An organizer has to attack apathy and disturb the prevailing patterns of complacent community life where people have simply come to accept a bad situation. Alinsky would say, “The first step in community organization is community disorganization.”

Through a process combining hope and resentment, the organizer tries to create a “mass army” that brings in as many recruits as possible from local organizations, churches, services groups, labor unions, corner gangs, and individuals. (http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/obamas_alinsky_jujitsu.html

            After graduating from Columbia University Obama was recruited into the Chicago south side Alinsky-inspired organization known as the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago. His job as community organizer was to blend in with the neighborhoods through identity with the churches. His task was to “rub raw the sores of discontent” among the poor, and exploit their feelings of helplessness. His task was to fan the embers of helplessness into flames of rebellion against the “haves” in society and toward the government that seems to favor them. According to one of his Alinsky mentors, Mike Kruglik, Barack was very good at what he did.

He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards. As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better." (http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/obamas_alinsky_jujitsu.html)
           

Obama refers to his four-year career as a community organizer as “the best education I got anywhere. He was a devotee of Saul Alinsky’s Marxist teachings, and went on to teach these principles at the Alinsky-founded Woodlawn Organization. The biographical description of his Teacher could be a description of Barack himself.

Alinsky was a larger-than-life figure, possessed of an extraordinary ego, boundless energy and an ability to captivate, entertain and outrage his listeners. As biographer Sanford Horwitt says, he had the gift "...of making everyone he came in contact with feel that the encounter with him had been a special, central one." (http://www.itvs.org/democraticpromise/alinsky2.html)

If you have stayed with me thus far, the reason that this subject fascinates me so much is the nature of the dedication, by Alinsky, of his book, Rules for Radicals. More specifically, I was surprised to learn of the one to whom it is dedicated.

“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins — or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer“

Barack perfected his craft, and with the help of some well-endowed shady world-manipulators has taken his “skills” to a much larger community. He is still a community organizer. His community is just bigger and more gullible. So, if he points to his time as a community organizer as credentials for being the most powerful person in the world, by definition he is right – if you want a community organizer for a President. But the community organizer offers no solutions – he just knows how to make people identify with their misery and hold the carrot of “change and hope” within sight. Barack offers no real solutions that one expects from a leader. All that he offers is blame, division and socialism. Remember that a government that is powerful enough to give you all you need is also the government that is powerful enough to take all you have. Just listen to what he is saying.

By the way -  I thought I heard, at the closing of the Barack acceptance speech, a strange noise from below that sounded like:

“Well done, my good and faithful servant”

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