Obama's "Strategy"

According to wikipedia, as well as other news outlets (wiki was my main source), Saul Alinsky is considered to be “the founder of modern community organizing in America.”

Born in Chicago, IL, he is said to be an influence of Barack Obama’s.

Obama answered a help-wanted ad for the job of a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago. Both organizations were built on the Alinsky principle.

In his last book before Saul Alinsky died, “Rules For Radicals” he outlined his view for how to gain mass power over the community. An excerpt from this book follows;

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging 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. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families - more than seventy million people - whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default."


Mike Kruglick, one of Obama’s early mentors in the Alinsky method had this to say to “The New Republic” about Obama.

"He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards. As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better."

Now, watch this video and see how Obama utilizes the strategy and teachings of Alinsky. He was supposedly going to address the crowd concerning the comment he made in Pennsylvania surrounding "bitter people clinging to Bibles and guns." Watch how he riles the crowd, then ends with himself as the answer.




Perhaps most terrifying is the epigraph of Alinsky’s book, seen below;

“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom – Lucifer.”

I think that speaks for itself, don’t you?