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by Matthew Vadum
Obama’s Amerihttp://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4625 is coming to your town. Barack Obama’s campaign is mobilizing 3,600 volunteers for six weeks of political work in 17 states, calling the campaign jobs “Obama Organizing Fellowships,” the Washington Post reports.
In exchange for working on the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate’s campaign, fellows are promised training in community organizing techniques, which is a euphemism for leftist political agitation. (Perhaps fellows will be instructed in the fine art of fraudulent voter registration ACORN-style.) As this month’s Foundation Watch report on Obama’s radical roots notes:
‘Agitation is what Chicago-born Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), the father of http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4470, 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.”’
Applications are now closed, according to the campaign, which claimed more than 10,000 people applied for the temporary gigs.On the Obama campaign page devoted to the fellowships, Obama himself appears on a brief video saying the program will “train a new generation of leaders that will not only help us win this election but help us revive democracy in communities all across the country.”
Hold on a moment there. America may have its faults, but does Obama really believe it doesn’t have enough democracy already?
The answer is both yes and no, because left-wing extremists like Obama don’t use the word democracy the way other Americans do.
To radical leftists, democracy is a coded word for socialism. In other words, if they don’t end up with the political result they want, it’s not really democracy.
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.
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