[WOSG]

Obamedia PING.

[Centurion2000]

Obama’s Brownshirts have been recruited.

[kinghorse]

Obama’s Organizing Fellows. Not bad. Doesn’t have the ring to it of say The Feyadeen or Tonton Macoutes but not bad.

[EdReform]

Ping

[roses of sharon]

Letters: Jan. 12, 2008
>Archive - PWW Print Edition Archive - 2008 Editions - Jan. 12, 2008

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

[XenaLee]

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.

[WOSG]

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."

Oh joy. Marxists in the White House.

[Mr. K]

But will he have midnight basketball?

[PhilDragoo]

[livius]

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."

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.

[Jeff Head]

Obama is an abject marxist.

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA

[popdonnelly]

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?

[FredZarguna]

Obama Organizing Fellowships.

OOF? OOF!?

That's the sound I make when one of my kids jumps on my stomach. (Especially the 16 year-old.)

[FredZarguna]

Don't forget Obama's FOO Fighters:

Reputed heterosexual Chris Matthews, Commandante-Zero of the Fighting Orgasmic Obamatrons, smiles here as a thrill goes up his leg.

[SE Mom]

Training, ala Saul Alinsky, ping!