Posted on 06/19/2008 7:51:14 AM PDT by vadum
Obama's Amerikkka Corps is coming to your town. Barack Obama's campaign is mobilizing 3,600 volunteers for six weeks of political work in 17 states, calling the campaign jobs "Obama Organizing Fellowships," the Washington Post reports.
In exchange for working on the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate's campaign, fellows are promised training in community organizing techniques, which is a euphemism for leftist political agitation. (Perhaps fellows will be instructed in the fine art of fraudulent voter registration ACORN-style.) As this month's Foundation Watch report on Obama's radical roots notes:
Agitation is what Chicago-born Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), the father of community organizing, called "rubbing raw the sores of discontent." In his classic book Rules for Radicals, Alinsky prescribed the tactics and defined the goals of community organizing. Among his "rules": "Keep the pressure on. Never let up" and "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it."Applications are now closed, according to the campaign, which claimed more than 10,000 people applied for the temporary gigs.
On the Obama campaign page devoted to the fellowships, Obama himself appears on a brief video saying the program will "train a new generation of leaders that will not only help us win this election but help us revive democracy in communities all across the country."
Hold on a moment there. America may have its faults, but does Obama really believe it doesn't have enough democracy already?
The answer is both yes and no, because left-wing extremists like Obama don't use the word democracy the way other Americans do.
To radical leftists, democracy is a coded word for socialism. In other words, if they don't end up with the political result they want, it's not really democracy.
Obama's ideological soulmates are people like Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now!" and Princeton professor Cornel West, an advisor on his campaign team.
West wrote a book with the word democracy in the title, but it's not really about democracy. The book, Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism, is about how the U.S. is supposedly under the control of racist, patriarchal, authoritarian fundamentalists who are intent on spreading empire no matter the cost.
West hails democracy as a concept but at the same time calls himself a "progressive socialist," and has written that "Marxist thought is an indispensable tradition for freedom fighters."
West is so committed to his through-the-looking-glass version of democracy that he supports Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, who wants to overthrow the elected government of neighboring Colombia, a real-life democracy.
When West visited Venezuela in 2006, he praised the government of leftist Chavez which has nationalized industries, jailed and murdered its opponents, and threatened the United States: "We in the United States have so many lies about President Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution." West said he visited Chavez's Venezuela "to see the democratic awakening taking place." By "democratic awakening," West meant the transformation of Venezuela into a socialist state.
Another example of this odd lip service to democracy by those who don't actually support it can be found among countries. During the Cold War era, the official name of the Soviet Communist puppet state of East Germany was the German Democratic Republic. Even today Stalinist North Korea insists it is a true democracy. That tyrannical state calls itself the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Real democracies tend not to be insecure about the fact that they're democratic.
Similarly, the radical American activists who scream loudest about democracy in this nation that is awash in democracy tend not to give a tinker's cuss about it.
Obamedia PING.
Obama’s Brownshirts have been recruited.
Obama’s Organizing Fellows. Not bad. Doesn’t have the ring to it of say The Feyadeen or Tonton Macoutes but not bad.
Ping
Letters: Jan. 12, 2008
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Author: Readers
People’s Weekly World Newspaper, 01/10/08 14:40
Happy New Year and congratulations on a job well done. These have been trying times when the hyenas of war have again been turned loose on humanity by a greedy ruling class.
Now, beyond all the optimism I was capable of mustering, Mr. Obama won Iowa! He won in a political arena 95 percent white. It was a resounding defeat for the manipulations of the ultra-right and their right-liberal fellow travelers. Also it was a hard lesson for liberals who underestimated the political fury of the masses in these troubled times.
Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary “mole,” not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through.
The old pattern of politics as usual has been broken. It may not have happened as we expected it to happen but what matters is that it happened. The message is clear: we can and must defeat the ultra-right, by uniting the broadest possible coalition that will represent an overwhelming majority of the people in a new political dynamic. We must quickly shed yesterday’s political perspective and get in step with the march of events.
Frank Chapman
Via e-mail
God help us. It’s almost surreal how close we could be to losing everything Americans have fought and died for ....our freedoms and for some of us (those that will refuse to give in or accept communism)...our lives.
Oh joy. Marxists in the White House.
“God help us. It’s almost surreal how close we could be to losing everything Americans have fought and died for ....our freedoms and for some of us (those that will refuse to give in or accept communism)...our lives.”
Well, the Democrats try it every 4 years.
What is surreal and beyond stupidity are those idiots who think Obama’s election might be good for conservatives.
It’s like a monarchist egging on the Russian Revolution.
But will he have midnight basketball?
God help us. It’s almost surreal how close we could be to losing everything Americans have fought and died for ....our freedoms and for some of us (those that will refuse to give in or accept communism)...our lives.
All because of laziness and ignorance. People too lazy to find out the truth or bother with the truth about what is happening and of course we have the brain dead liberals who will follow their leaders into hell which is where we are all going to end up if the leftists win - hell on earth. That’s why we should never give up and never give in!!
Osama Obama learned his lessons well.
The guy is ignorant as the day is long, but he's an incredibly aggressive politician with a will to power, and anybody who discounts this is a fool.
The Left will take over everything if you let them.
“Community organizer” is an interesting euphemism for community agitator. Will the little leftists wear identifying shorts, shirts, and bandanas? Or will they be in deep cover?
OOF? OOF!?
That's the sound I make when one of my kids jumps on my stomach. (Especially the 16 year-old.)
Reputed heterosexual Chris Matthews, Commandante-Zero of the Fighting Orgasmic Obamatrons, smiles here as a thrill goes up his leg.
Excellent graphics devolve. You have him on record wearing that Marine T-shirt!
Training, ala Saul Alinsky, ping!
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