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Obamas Amerikkka Corps
June 18th, 2008 by Matthew Vadum



"Obamas Amerikkka Corps is coming to your town. Barack Obamas
campaign is mobilizing 3,600 volunteers for six weeks of political work in
17 states, calling the campaign jobs €œObama Organizing Fellowships,€�
the Washington Post reports.

In exchange for working on the presumptive Democratic presidential
candidates 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 months Foundation
Watch report on Obamas radical roots notes:

Agitation is what Chicago-born Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), the father of
community organizing, called €œrubbing 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 €œrules€�: €œKeep
the pressure on. Never let up€� and €œPick 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 €œtrain 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 doesnt have enough democracy already?

The answer is both yes and no, because left-wing extremists like Obama
dont use the word democracy the way other Americans do.

To radical leftists, democracy is a coded word for socialism. In other
words, if they dont end up with the political result they want, its
not really democracy.

Obamas ideological soulmates are people like Amy Goodman of
€œDemocracy Now!€� and Princeton professor Cornel West, an advisor on
his campaign team.

West wrote a book with the word democracy in the title, but its 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.

West hails democracy as a concept but at the same time calls himself a
€œprogressive socialist,€� and has written that €œMarxist thought is an
indispensable tradition for freedom fighters.€�

West is so committed to his through-the-looking-glass version of democracy
that he supports Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez, who wants to overthrow
the elected government of neighboring Colombia, a real-life democracy.

When West visited Venezuela in 2006, he praised the government of leftist
Chavez which has nationalized industries, jailed and murdered its
opponents, and threatened the United States: €œWe in the United States
have so many lies about President Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian
Revolution.€� West said he visited Chavezs Venezuela €œto see the
democratic awakening taking place.€� By €œdemocratic awakening,€� West
meant the transformation of Venezuela into a socialist state.

Another example of this odd lip service to democracy by those who dont
actually support it can be found among countries. During the Cold War era,
the official name of the Soviet Communist puppet state of East Germany was
the German Democratic Republic. Even today Stalinist North Korea insists
it is a true democracy. That tyrannical state calls itself the Democratic
Peoples Republic of Korea.

Real democracies tend not to be insecure about the fact that theyre
democratic.

Similarly, the radical American activists who scream loudest about
democracy in this nation that is awash in democracy tend not to give a
tinkers cuss about it."

http://www.capitalresearch.org/blog/?p=154
http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=4986


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