Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Community Organizing


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Uber-Nomenklatura (International Pirates of Opportunity):
For "Ultimate Play On Volatility" (to consolidate rule of Uber-Nomenklatura), see http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/bidens_generated_crisis.html.
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Among prospects for Community Organizers, what character traits are sought or prized, if not traits for broadcasting blame against one’s country for not having provided all that to which one felt (by greed?) entitled?

See http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/obama_acorn_old_media_negligen.html.

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What does a community organizer do? See http://www.nypost.com/seven/09292008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/os_dangerous_pals_131216.htm.

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Imagine we could cordon off the world, half for those who want to live in communities based primarily on surrender to group codependency and half for those who want to live in communities based primarily on personal freedom and dignity.

I suspect it would not be long before many in the first half sought to migrate to the second, but I doubt many in the second half would seek to migrate to the first.

So, why do the codependents among us want to reduce the entire world to international socialism, rather than simply to emigrate to the dream society of their choice?

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LIPSTICK ON A VAMPIRE?


Snippet from http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/putting_lipstick_on_the_commun.html:
September 12, 2008
Putting Lipstick on the Community Organizing Pig
By Kyle-Anne Shiver

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Since when did training panhandlers to be organized and angry rise to the level of social service?
In the immortal words of Obama's political mentor, Saul Alinsky, an organizer's job is to "rub raw the sores of discontent" and mount a socialist revolution. In the 1930s and 40s, Alinsky called his revolutionary forces "People's Organizations," but once the word "people" became so tainted by the brutalities of communist "people's republics," he changed the code word to "community," hoping to make it sound more American and neighborly.

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"The grandiose rationalization of petty resentments."

Now, that's at least one thing about which there remains little doubt. Barack Obama seems to have that act down pat.

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12 comments:

Anonymous said...

See:

Socialism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNLuL2Z4xSY;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk69e1Vcmvg.

USSR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtU3vUOa2sw.

Free enterprise: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=angbZB2WeMQ.

Gulag: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzERl_gil-0;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDVzCz4W8dg;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4bTvhXMO7I.

Anonymous said...

See http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=5E907DF1-DC38-4776-920A-B7AED7040889.

Anonymous said...

See http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2080824/posts.

Anonymous said...

DISCONCERTING NOTE ABOUT MEDIA COORDINATED MIND MANIPULATION:

Some very disconcerting, interesting, historical, even scary things are being manipulated these days throughout our media sources, which have become monopolized like never before.

NOTICE HOW:

1) Yahoo / Huffington media and the Associated Press (see http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hpT--nX_AnIUoFkUqmEGtBQZ5sIgD93557TG2) KEEP DREDGING UP old leftist grievances, like the Rosenberg cause (just as if no leftists were ever involved in diverting atomic know how to the Soviets, sort of like the episode of Dallas, where Bobby woke up and it was all a dream).

The quite minor point they wish to convey is that Ethel may not have typed her husband’s spy papers. However, they strain to base that point on a reading of tea leaves, based on suppositions, based not on actual trial testimony, but on grand jury proceedings.

And why does left wing news deem such a historically minor point so important? Well, they have insinuated themselves among sponsors who have acquired means and position to stir seeds of suspicion, whether true or not, about a “vast right wing conspiracy,” have they not?

2) And this is not isolated. Rather, ask yourself: What is the agenda behind so many of the coordinated, ridiculous attacks being made against Sarah Palin?

3) Why does such a fringe kook-group as Code Pink seem to be enjoying so much free media coverage?

4) Why has the International Socialist movement come to be so closely affiliated with efforts to justify illegal immigration and open borders?


CONSIDER:

From http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/putting_lipstick_on_the_commun.html
September 12, 2008
Putting Lipstick on the Community Organizing Pig
By Kyle-Anne Shiver

No matter how much lipstick, finery and linguistic switcheroo Obama employs, his gig as a community organizer is still just a fancy-dancy way of explaining the role of a paid people's agitator.
Lipstick doesn't change a thing.
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Since when did training panhandlers to be organized and angry rise to the level of social service?

In the immortal words of Obama's political mentor, Saul Alinsky, an organizer's job is to "rub raw the sores of discontent" and mount a socialist revolution. In the 1930s and 40s, Alinsky called his revolutionary forces "People's Organizations," but once the word "people" became so tainted by the brutalities of communist "people's republics," he changed the code word to "community," hoping to make it sound more American and neighborly.

But make no mistake. From Alinsky's initial Back of the Yards labor movement, to his Industrial Areas Foundation, where Obama first learned his own "community organizing" tactics, the goal was always revolution.

Agitate and aggravate. Those are the responsibilities of the paid "community organizer."

Prepare the people for the trials of the revolution. The people, according to Alinsky, "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 chance the future" of change, change, change.

As Alinsky said quite clearly in his revolutionary manifesto, Reveille for Radicals:
"A People's Organization is dedicated to an eternal war...A war is not an intellectual debate, and in the war against social evils there are no rules of fair play."

In claiming some sort of altruistic motivation for his community organizing years, Barack Obama has not only applied lipstick to this pig of a dirty job, he's adorned it in enough gaudy finery to pass it off as a drag queen.

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This community-organizing shtick that Obama says was the "best education" he ever had, was the brainchild of Saul Alinsky, who defined success as nothing more than to persistently and tenaciously "fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression."

The job of the organizer is nothing more than to prepare the people to accept the necessity of the thing they most fear, according to Alinsky.

And what did Alinsky say people feared most?

Change.

And precisely how did Alinsky teach his organizers to get people to yearn for the thing they most fear?

Alinsky taught the art of psychological manipulation.

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And what was the desired "change" in the community situation? Simply to persuade people that every one of their problems emanated, not from any personal failings or even any community-centered failings, but from a dastardly group of "Haves," the ones with all the power and all the money.

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Governor Palin brought to public attention the very crux of community organizing. To be successful at the job, one need not produce a single, positive result. One need not perform a single objective task for the community at large. One need not produce one shred of real change or reform, nor a single act of charity. In fact, the only thing one need do to proclaim success, is to leave people more angry and demanding of a government fix-it-all than they were before the organizer arrived in the midst of their community.

Four years on Chicago's south side, getting paid to learn the sacred art of professional complaining, making the lives of others seem more miserable than they could have ever imagined and then teach them to lay every ounce of the blame at government's feet, does help to explain candidate Obama's tendency to whine, wallow and excessively complain.

In this, Obama perfectly exemplifies the definition of socialism, coined by Ludwig Von Mises in the 1930s:

Socialism is the grandiose rationalization of petty resentments.

"The grandiose rationalization of petty resentments."
Now, that's at least one thing about which there remains little doubt. Barack Obama seems to have that act down pat.

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NOW FOR THE SCARY PART:

The open-borders international-socialist agenda is actually backed by those who lead both the Democrat and the Republican parties.
Goo-goo elites and street agitators are just being used as useful dupes.
The main difference among political parties concerns only to whom among those who are pulling and upsetting the strings shall the most in spoils be pillaged.
CHANGE seems definitely to be coming; but, in both personal freedom and economics, ordinary folks will lose.

MODERATE INDEPENDENTS MUST GET THE RED ASS AND PAY ATTENTION, OR WE ARE ABOUT TO BE SOLD DOWN THE RIVER!

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SOCIAL FRAUD:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1aORbWGaL8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kegJMoBJO9I
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwlhTirWCGk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkZrMpv0Pss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ6SrZODbHg
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=5E907DF1-DC38-4776-920A-B7AED7040889

Anonymous said...

Who's most angry, unhappy, spoiled, and socially irresponsible?

Some college student should do a statistical, double blind study: Gather volunteers to put political stickers on their car bumpers, to be assigned in one series of test runs by chance and in a second series by choice.

For each run, tabulate and compare the number of cars found to have been deliberately "keyed" (paint scratched) after returning to parking lots.

This may shed some light about which types of voters are better adjusted, more responsible, more rational, and less driven by adolescent rage. (Even better: Monitor the assigned parking areas with cameras.)

Problem: First find a college professor who would support such a study.

Anonymous said...

Czar for "Fairness Doctrine"?

Someone with inside access for reviewing the letters to newspaper editors that are considered each day for publication should compare, among newspapers perceived to be liberal versus conservative, the proportions of left leaning letters published and right leaning letters published to the whole number of letters received, per political topic.

Expecting news from Dinasaur Media to be "objective" or "fair" is fraught with peril.

Does monopolized media deserve even as high a confidence rating as Congress?

Anonymous said...

See http://townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2008/09/17/obama_lucifer_is_my_homeboy.

Anonymous said...

OBAMA: Snippets from http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/fully_invested_in_your_misery.html:

Do not doubt that Barack Obama is just as thrilled with the panic in our economic markets as Adolph Hitler was seventy-five years ago in Germany by the heartbreak of the German middle class. Obama is a much more humane, sane, and placid man than Hitler, but the basic principle of all radical Leftists -- Hitler or Obama -- is identical. A happy society is a society that does not need them. A desperate society, alone, will grant them the power they crave, and "The worse, the better" is the unstated goal of men who want power above all else.

It is not coincidence that the rhetoric of Obama is so blank that almost anyone could put almost any wish within the womb of his words. Barack Obama does not intend to really say anything. He seeks, instead, to promise vague emotional fulfillment to unhappy people. He whispers undefined action which will make the dreariness of life go away. He needs your sadness to grant his dreams. If Americans are doing well, Barack Obama cannot do well. He grasps at every level the grim truth of the Left: The worse, the better.
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The hungry Left always imagines that the end, truly, justifies the means. It holds (it thinks) the key to secular heaven and the suffering of ordinary people feeds the bonfires of its march to power. History is the lesson book of man. We do not have to guess about what happens when the people, without hope, give power to those who thrive on suffering. "The worse, the better" always leads to things much worse than the causes that made men barter their rights for promises.

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See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c.

Anonymous said...

http://sweetness-light.com/archive/obama-couples-tricked-into-buying-houses:

So which is it?
We need to give everyone a chance to buy their own house.
Or are people being tricked into buying houses?

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Community Organizing:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/09/acorn_obama_and_the_mortgage_m.html

Anonymous said...

Good Will and Doodad:

HOW CAN PARENTS TEACH CHILDREN NOT TO SINK TO GANG LEVEL TACTICS WHEN OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM LOOKS THE OTHER WAY AND OFTEN PROVIDES ENCOURAGEMENT FOR SUCH TACTICS?

http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/Obama_fundraising_illegal/2008/09/29/135718.html?s=al&promo_code=6BD9-1:

In a letter dated June 25, 2008, the FEC asked the Obama campaign to verify a series of $25 donations from a contributor identified as “Will, Good” from Austin, Texas.

Mr. Good Will listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You.”

A Newsmax analysis of the 1.4 million individual contributions in the latest master file for the Obama campaign discovered 1,000 separate entries for Mr. Good Will, most of them for $25.
In total, Mr. Good Will gave $17,375.
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Similarly, a donor identified as “Pro, Doodad,” from “Nando, NY,” gave $19,500 in 786 separate donations, most of them for $25. For most of these donations, Mr. Doodad Pro listed his employer as “Loving” and his profession as “You,” just as Good Will had done.

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Following FEC requests, the Obama campaign began refunding money to Doodad Pro in February 2008. In all, about $8,425 was charged back to a credit card. But that still left a net total of $11,165 as of Sept. 20, way over the individual limit of $4,600.

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The FEC has compiled a separate database of potentially questionable overseas donations that contains more than 11,500 contributions totaling $33.8 million. More than 520 listed their “state” as “IR,” often an abbreviation for Iran. Another 63 listed it as “UK,” the United Kingdom.

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Unlike McCain’s or Sen. Hillary Clinton’s online donation pages, the Obama site did not ask for proof of citizenship until just recently. Clinton’s presidential campaign required U.S. citizens living abroad to actually fax a copy of their passport before a donation would be accepted.
With such lax vetting of foreign contributions, the Obama campaign may have indirectly contributed to questionable fundraising by foreigners.

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In July and August, the head of the Nigeria’s stock market held a series of pro-Obama fundraisers in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city. The events attracted local Nigerian business owners.
At one event, a table for eight at one fundraising dinner went for $16,800. Nigerian press reports claimed sponsors raked in an estimated $900,000.


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Though Gadhafi asserted that fundraising from Arab and African nations were “legitimate,” the fact is that U.S. federal law bans any foreigner from donating to a U.S. election campaign.
The rise of the Internet and use of credit cards have made it easier for foreign nationals to donate to American campaigns, especially if they claim their donation is less than $200.

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This begs a question: Was the Snopes-faux-Dowd article prescient?

Anonymous said...

RACIST:

From http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/10/the_numbskull_vote.html:
October 14, 2008

The numbskull vote
Rosslyn Smith

Howard Stern sends out people to poll Obama voters in Harlem, attributing all of McCain's positions to Obama. Those questioned didn't seem to recognize that positions such as being pro life and finishing the war in Iraq were the exact opposite of Obama's actual positions. And they all still support Obama.

Tell me again exactly who is casting a vote based on race.

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ACORN FRAUD:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/10/how_to_steal_ohio.html

Anonymous said...

Unraveling American Self-Reliance — Mexicanization of America:

http://www.newsmax.com/ruddy/ruddy_gop_survival/2008/10/27/144701.html:
For Republicans, changing demographics are worrisome. Minorities and immigrants like the idea of a big and benevolent government handing out benefits — the something-for-nothing boondoggles that the Democrats have reveled in since Franklin Roosevelt invented the concept.
If you give amnesty, which really means citizenship, to just 2 million or 3 million of the 12 million illegals here, the electoral map moves dramatically in favor of the Democratic Party. But there will be no reason why Obama and the Democrats won’t push for amnesty and citizenship for all 12 million.

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Today, Texas is an anchor for the GOP nationally. But an Obama amnesty program will put that state solidly into the Democratic column. Florida and other smaller red states like Nevada, Arizona, and New Mexico will become quite blue. Blue states, like California and New York, will get bluer.

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New Socialist Media — Palin Negative Headlines:

See http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/palin_negative_headlines/2008/10/28/144911.html?s=al&promo_code=6F48-1