Wednesday, October 22, 2008
"Top Iran Officials Recommend Preemptive Strike Against Israel"
Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 5:40 PM
This isn't alarmism --it is confirmation of what Joe Biden predicted Sunday and what ought to be turning the stomachs of voters who worry --rightly-- that if elected Obama's nickname would be "President Blink."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1030279.html
Obama's Radical Roots And Rules
Obama is a longtime disciple of a man whose mission was to teach radicals to disguise their ideology.
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
One of Obama's main inspirations was a man dedicated to revolutionary change that he was convinced "must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, nonchallenging 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."
Sen. Obama was trained by Chicago's Industrial Areas Foundation, founded in 1940 by the radical organizer Saul Alinsky. In the 1980s, Obama spent years as director of the Developing Communities Project, which operated using Alinsky's strategies, and was involved with two other Alinsky-oriented entities, Acorn and Project Vote.
On the Obama campaign Web site can be found a photo of him teaching in a University of Chicago classroom with "Power Analysis" and "Relationships Built on Self Interest" written on the blackboard — key terms utilized in the Alinsky method.
The far-left Alinsky had no time for liberalism or liberals, declaring that "a liberal is (someone) who puts his foot down firmly on thin air." He wanted nothing less than transformational radicalism. "America was begun by its radicals," he wrote. "America was built by its radicals. The hope and future of America lies with its radicals." And so, "This is the job for today's radical — to fan the embers of hopelessness into a flame to fight. To say, '. . . let us change it together!' "
Alinsky students ranged "from militant Indians to Chicanos to Puerto Ricans to blacks from all parts of the black power spectrum, from Panthers to radical philosophers, from a variety of campus activists, S.D.S. and others, to a priest who was joining a revolutionary party in South America."
Capitalism always was considered the enemy. "America's corporations are a spiritual slum," he wrote, "and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society." Is it surprising that an Alinsky disciple such as Obama can promise so blithely to increase taxes on CEOs?
Obama calls his years as an Alinskyesque community organizer in Chicago "the best education I ever had, and where I learned the true meaning of my Christian faith." But as radicalism expert Richard Lawrence Poe has noted, "Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing. In organizing coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer."
http://www.ibdeditorials.com/IBDArticles.aspx?id=303605575673142
October 21, 2008 4:00 AM
In the Fine Print
By David Freddoso
ACORN engages in many forms of left-wing activism, often employing the intimidation tactics made popular by Saul Alinsky, the father of community organizing and a role model to presidential candidate Barack Obama. The group has waged campaigns against Wal-Mart, against welfare reform, and in favor of “living wage” laws. In October 2005, the group was accused of flooding a non-union hospital’s emergency room with patients they had bused in from far away as part of a unionization pressure campaign. ACORN also controls the ACORN Housing Corporation, which along with its local affiliates has received at least $29 million in federal taxpayer funds since 1998 (other ACORN-related groups have received an additional $2 million).
ACORN also runs large voter-registration drives that are famous mostly for signing up fake voters. These have received much attention in the past month. In the revised and updated 2008 edition of his book Stealing Elections, the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund documents that, during the 2006 election, ACORN workers submitted some 35,000 registrations in Kansas City, Missouri — 40 percent of which were determined to be fake. Only after officials from the Kansas City Board of Elections submitted the evidence to the FBI did ACORN cooperate and identify the perpetrators among its staff. Between Kansas City and St. Louis, 12 ACORN workers were convicted of fraud.The group submitted 1,805 registrations in Washington State’s King County just after the registration deadline in 2006. After the indictments in Missouri, local election officials examined these forms and found that 97 percent of them were bogus. They included registrations for former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R., Ill.), a variety of New York Times op-ed columnists, and someone named “Fruto Boy.” ACORN paid a $25,000 settlement to King County to pay for the investigation of their activities rather than face indictment.John Fund interviewed ACORN officials for this timely edition of his book, which examines various attempts to degrade the integrity of American elections. They offered a variety of excuses and promises to institute better quality controls. Yet, time after time, in state after state, ACORN’s mischief has continued. Nevada authorities raided ACORN offices this year after the group submitted voter-registration forms bearing the names of numerous members of the Dallas Cowboys’ starting lineup. In the many states where ACORN operates, employees have told a similar story. Motivated by fear of losing their jobs, ACORN workers have committed fraud in order to meet the registration quotas set for them by the organization. Before the 2006 election in Missouri, ACORN organizers were required — under pain of termination — to collect 200 petition signatures daily for a ballot initiative. In Ohio, ACORN workers this year must sign up between 22 and 26 new voters every day.Stories of fraudulent activity in Ohio (ACORN workers submitted 8,700 suspicious registrations in Cuyahoga County alone) and in other states this year have received the attention of the FBI, which is examining whether there could be a national pattern of fraud.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MzExMWVkNzEwODM0ZjVmYjY5NDUxNDBhOGE5N2M2ZDY=
