October 18, 2008

By Ted Belman

Obama prides himself as being a community organizer. This may sound benign but it isn’t when done according to Saul Alinsky’s playbook. Alinsky preached seizing power by any means. We see those means in the work of ACORN. We see them in Obama refusing to discuss the past truthfully or allow any one else to do so. Everyone who knew him is mum. For Obama, no lie is too big. Deny, deny, deny.

Here is the latest outrage. Secret Service says “Kill him” allegation unfounded. This fits in totally with the Alinsky playbook.

Now we learn of another success by Obama using this playbook. Kenyan insiders say Obama was part of takeover strategy

Former members of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga’s Orange Democratic Movement party have told WND when Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama visited Kenya on a “fact-finding” trip in 2006, he was carrying out part of a secret election strategy that also included exploiting divisive tribal tensions and ultimately taking advantage of rioting that left 1,000 dead.

This strategy included the following

Odinga did conduct a campaign against President Mwai Kibaki by charging his administration with corruption, advancing anti-Kibaki sentiments aimed at inciting Kenyan youth to vote for Odinga and ultimately calling for protest by Odinga’s fellow Luo tribal members. Kibaki is of the majority Kikuyu tribe.

The “protests” turned violent, and in January and February a brutal wave of Odinga-supporting, machete-wielding Luo mobs killed an estimated 1,000 members of the Kikuyu tribe, displaced over 350,000 Kenyans from their homes and destroyed some 800 Christian churches, all without a single mosque being damaged.

The sources reported Odinga simply was following the script his policy strategists laid out for him in the Nyongo strategy document.

The general tone of the strategy was to encourage the Odinga campaign to claim to be leading in the presidential race regardless of the actual numbers and be prepared to proclaim victory even if Odinga lost.

The officials poll results showed he lost to the incumbent by about 250,000 votes.

The plan called for “opportunities” for Odinga to pursue, including efforts to “exploit anti-Kikuyu statements,” with a determination to “leverage the vulnerability of the Kibaki administration responses to corruption” and confront Kibaki with “a powerful anti-corruption message.”

The final strategy the document calls for is exploiting ethnic tensions and using “violence as a last resort” to gain power. Among the 1,000 killed, reports say, were several dozen women and children who died when the Christian church in which they had sought refuge from marauding Muslim gangs was burned down around them.

The ex-ODM sources said Odinga followed the strategy script exactly, including his ultimate use of tribal conflict to gain power.

While Odinga never had explicitly demanded violence, the former ODM sources said Odinga used “code language” to his Luo backers to convey the instructions to burn Kikuyu homes, rape women and kill men.

Obama’s role

Obama’s involvement amounted to a coordination with Odinga on the campaign, according to the sources.

Obama’s part in the strategy was to openly attack the Kibaki administration in meetings where Odinga was in a very public attendance at Obama’s side, the sources said.

WND previously reported a news report by a Chicago WBBM-TV news team of Obama’s 2006 trip to Kenya. The report showed the senator undermining the Kibaki government in a speech delivered to the editorial staff at the Nairobi offices of the Standard, a prominent Nairobi newspaper, and at a separate appearance in which Obama delivered a public speech at Nairobi University of Nairobi, two hours after the appearance at the Standard.

The ex-ODM sources argued Obama and Odinga together were implementing in a coordinated fashion the strategy the Nyongo-led policy advisers had crafted in the internal strategy document.

The two politicians remained in touch through that time period, as WND also has published a report referencing a copy of a private Dec. 22, 2006, e-mail in which Obama personally informed Odinga that “all our correspondence [be] handled by Mr. Mark Lippert.”

Lippert, at that time, was serving as a foreign policy advisor in Obama’s U.S. Senate office in Washington, D.C.

The Washington Times also reported Odinga visited Obama during three trips the Kenyan politician made to the U.S. in 2004, 2005 and 2006.

The Times also reported Obama sent his Senate office foreign policy adviser, Lippert, to Kenya in early 2006 to coordinate and arrange for Obama’s Senate “fact-finding” visit to Kenya later that year.

As further evidence that Obama and Odinga were coordinating to implement the campaign strategy outlined in the Nyongo-authored document, the ex-ODM sources in Kenya argued that Obama maintained almost daily cell phone contact with Odinga as the post-election tribal violence was unfolding in Kenya, even as Obama was campaigning in the final days of the New Hampshire Democratic Party primary, as has been reported by the BBC.

The ex-ODM sources said Obama worked after the election with former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to argue a position should be created to allow Odinga to share head of state as a compromise to end the violence.

The ex-ODM sources said during the post-election violence Obama did not call on Odinga to drop his charges of voter fraud or to withdraw completely from his efforts to become head of state as a strategy to calm his Luo tribe supporters and bring a halt to the violence.

WND confirmed in Kenya that at one point Annan and Rice actually pressured Kenyan Vice President Kolonzo to step down from his position to bring the Luo-mob protest violence to an end by appointing Odinga vice president so he could assume the nation’s second highest political office.

When Kolonzo refused to step down, Annan and Rice proposed the Odinga-inspired plan to appoint him as prime minister, effectively allowing Odinga to share the head-of-state position with Kibaki, a solution that was adopted.

WND also reported on the authenticity of an Odinga campaign internal finance memorandum documenting that Obama arranged for Odinga to receive in his U.S. trips nearly $1 million in campaign contributions from Obama fund-raisers and donors to assist Odinga in his 2007 presidential campaign in Africa.

The finance memo, prepared by Shakeel Shabbir, the head of Odinga’s campaign finance accounting section, also detailed that among the 72 individuals and organizations that contributed money to Odinga’s 2007 presidential run in Kenya was Saif el-Islam Gadhafi, the second oldest sun of Libyan dictator Muammar Gadhafi, who also was listed as contributing nearly $1 million to Odinga’s campaign.

The Shabbir document lists the Obama-generated campaign contributions from the U.S. as having been donated by “Friends of Senator B.O.”

Obama was a trained community organizer adept at the Alinsky method. He was also from the Lou tribe as was Odinga.

Obama followed his Communist mentor’s advice

Saul Alinsky’s son: “Obama learned his lesson well”

By Judi McLeod Tuesday, September 2, 2008

In Artful Dodger style, Barack Obama, plays down his mentorship with Communist author Saul Alinsky. But Alinsky’s son, L. David Alinsky, credits Obama for “learning his lesson well” from the Communist guru.

Indeed, Alinsky Jr. who credits his late father for the success of last week’s Democratic National Convention, may have done something that Obama’s detractors couldn’t: blown the cover on the presidential hopeful’s communist leanings.

No one can blame Alinsky for the pretentiousness of the Ancient Greek Temple from which Obama addressed plebes, or for the tacky neon colours on display at the Pepsi Centre, but it was Alinsky who wrote Rules for Radicals, the bible of the far left.

Says Alinsky’s son L. David Alinsky of his father’s influence at the Dem Convention:

“ALL the elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situation and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd’s chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people.”

“The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event”,
“Barack Obama’s training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness,”

“It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board. When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen. Obama learned his lesson well.

Obama, The Media and ACORN: Affirmative Action on Steroids

[..] Not only is the evidence in and continuing that ACORN has used taxpayer funding to commit voter fraud, but there is ample evidence, mostly ignored by Obama’s fiancé press, that Obama himself has had his hands very deep in this soup for a long time.

ACORN’s stated purpose is to empower minorities at any cost, using any means available and with complete disregard for the law, morality or common decency, order or respect for democracy and this country.

Affirmative Action Gets Juiced

[..] If using external sources to enhance performance of athletic ability is wrong, then how is using external influences to spread and twist affirmative action in ways no longer constructive for a free society any better? First the liberals distorted the social face of affirmative action from spreading equality of opportunity to imposing a guarantee of results. Now, through organizations such as ACORN, liberals spread this distorted version, their version, of affirmative action into the economic arena by forcing banks and lending institutions, under political threats, to make unwise loans leading to the present mess in our economy. This connection between ACORN and unwise loan practices has been proven and documented in many places.

Not content to spread their distorted version of affirmative action from the social to the economic arenas, liberals have now spread this concoction into the political arena as well, with the help of their pet media. Say anything negative about their darling Obama and you will have liberals and the media rain down on you with accusations of racism and intolerance. This absurdity is the total contradiction of all time, since it is precisely the racist who hides behind race to justify his or her behavior. The last time I checked, crooks and con men come in all colors, and calling a liar a liar has nothing to do with his or her race.

We began with preferential treatment for minorities in the social arena. Not providing equality of opportunity, mind you, which would have been healthy affirmative action, but guaranteeing results, which is the liberal distortion of affirmative action in a nutshell. Then we saw how this mutant liberal affirmative action was spread to the economic arena with groups like ACORN forcing preferential treatment to people not ready or able to take on loans simply because of the group they belonged to, resulting in the mess we find ourselves today. Finally, we now see political affirmative action with the help of the liberal media enablers who twist and hide facts with passion in the service of protecting their divine Barack Obama and any other preferred liberal politician, celebrity or public figure.

What began with a noble idea twisted and mutated by the liberal social, economic and liberal agenda has been spread from the social, to the economic and the political arena. True racism is evil and wrong, as is any form of prejudice and bias against people, but liberals have twisted this truth, as they so often do with all truth, to suit their agenda. Now, racism is the new accusation aimed at any who dare to criticize or expose wrong committed by people of a given race. Accuse a white, conservative politician of corruption, associating with domestic terrorists or radical clerics spewing hatred and you are making an observation. Accuse a conservative, minority politician of the same and you are putting an ungrateful minority in his or her place. Do the same concerning a liberal, white politician and you are ignored. Dare to do this concerning a minority liberal politician and you are racist.

Sarah Palin is racist for talking about small towns. John McCain is racist for saying “that one” during a debate. James Carville and Paul Begala are not racists for assuming that African-Americans know no better than to riot if Obama loses the election. Barack Obama does not have a racist bone in his body no matter what he may say. I am racist for writing this. The double standard is so blatant and absurd that it pushes the envelope of sanity.

Conclusion

[..] Now, affirmative action is yet another weapon liberals use to hijack The American Dream and turn it into the American nightmare, complete with rationalized, institutionalized and legalized injustice and payback which have no place in the America our founders dreamed of. This kind of affirmative action is a distortion, yet another ad hoc cocktail devised by liberals to justify their twisted vision of what America should be.

Not content to merely infect and distort a once powerful idea to suit their purposes, liberals have now extended it to suit their social, economic and political agenda. Call them on it and you are a hateful, intolerant, narrow-minded and evil racist. Agree with them on it and you are an enlightened, educated, perceptive visionary who will carry America far. They hijack the concept; they can make their own rules. Well, at least we have the ever-liberal mainstream media ready, willing and able to serve the liberal establishment’s every need.

Obama is the messiah and the media is the noble messenger of truth. Say it enough times and you might actually believe it. At least ACORN has the right name. When I looked up that term the first words I saw were “a nut.”

Affirmative action has been hijacked by liberals, who have poured victimization, patronization and their own brand of self-appointed righteousness all over it.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Gabriel Garnica, Esq., is a college professor who holds a law degree from New York University. Write him at gbgmyarticles@yahoo.com.