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September 5, 2008
'Why Obama's "Community Organizer" Days Are a Joke' And Worthy Of Criticism (Updated)
Topics: Political News and commentariesWhen VP nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said, "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities," she did so for a very valid reason. A Barack Obama kind of community organizer is in a league of its own - far different from community organizers in church basements and community centers across the country working to improve their neighbors' lives. Obama's community organizing days involved training grievance-mongers from the far-left. Michelle Malkin explains the difference:
What deserves derision is "community organizing" that relies on a community of homeless people and ex-cons to organize for the purpose of registering dead people to vote, shaking down corporations and using the race card as a bludgeon.As Michelle notes in her piece, Obama's community organizing days were very different from those of churches and community centers across the nation. And very different, they are indeed. Obama's kind of community organizer follows the teachings of the unabashedly radical Saul Alinsky. Richard Swier's piece at From The Duke helps clarify this.Let me clarify something. Nobody is mocking community organizers in church basements and community centers across the country working to improve their neighbors' lives. What deserves ridicule is the notion that Obama's brief stint as a South Side rabble-rouser for tax-subsidized, partisan nonprofits qualifies as executive experience you can believe in.
What deserves derision is "community organizing" that relies on a community of homeless people and ex-cons to organize for the purpose of registering dead people to vote, shaking down corporations and using the race card as a bludgeon.
As I've reported previously, Obama's community organizing days involved training grievance-mongers from the far-left ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). The ACORN mob is infamous for its bully tactics (which they dub "direct actions"); Obama supporters have recounted his role in organizing an ambush on a government planning meeting about a landfill project opposed by Chicago's minority lobbies.
With benefactors like Obama in office, ACORN has milked nearly four decades of government subsidies to prop up chapters that promote the welfare state and undermine the free market, as well as some that have been implicated in perpetuating illegal immigration and voter fraud.
Alinsky was a critic of a passive and ineffective mainstream liberalism. In Rules for Radicals, he argued that the most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired ends, and that an intermediate end for radicals should be democracy because of its relative ease to work within to achieve other ends of social justice."In Rules for Radicals Alinsky writes, "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."
This is where Senator Barack Obama's campaign about "Change" comes from. He is not talking about positive change but rather the change outlined by his mentor Saul Alinsky. Revolutionary change. Socialist change.
And when Sarah Palin chided Obama for being a community organizer that had no responsibilities, she was absolutely right: Obama had said so in his own words. From the above Swier link:
"As Obama was preparing to graduate from Columbia he wasn't sure what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. Finally, in 1983, he decided to follow in the footsteps of one of his heroes, radical leftist and communist fellow traveler, Saul Alinsky. He concluded, "That's what I'll do... I'll organize black folks at the grass roots... for change."So next time you here someone try to defend Barack Obama's days as a community organizer or claim that he has "real" executive experience, you too can laugh out loud along with the rest of us that know what a Barack Obama kind of community organizer really is and what Obama actually did."There wasn't much detail to the idea," he says. "I didn't know anyone making a living that way. When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn't answer them directly. Instead, I'd pronounce on the need for change. Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds. Change in the Congress, compliant and corrupt. Change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed. 'Change won't come from the top,' I would say. 'Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.' "
Barack Obama moved to Chicago, Alinsky's hometown, and established himself as a community organizer.
Related: Outraged Community Organizers (very informative read)
Posted by Richard at September 5, 2008 5:42 AM
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Comments
Correction: Are you sure it is "Community Organizer," or given Obama's past association with Davies, Ayers, Rev. Wright, and all his other "Mentors," isn't the term "Communist Organizer" more accurate???
Althor
Posted by: Althor at September 5, 2008 8:25 AM
I stand corrected; "Communist organizer" is indeed more appropriate.
Posted by: Richard at September 5, 2008 8:37 AM
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