PrintSeptember 12, 2008
Putting Lipstick on the Community Organizing Pig
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.And it most certainly does not make agitating for taxpayer money, money, money a charitable enterprise.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...(Read Full Article)
