Posted by
Glenn Flowers on Sunday, August 24, 2008 12:55:07 AM
I have just completed reading ObamaNation by Jerome R. Corsi. The book very effectively ties together statements made by Barack Obama both in person via interviews and speeches, and in his autobiography Dreams From My Father, and statements by former political associates, reporters, relatives, supporters, campaign workers, and opponents. Mr. Corsi takes great care to inform readers that all possible methods were used to validate the accuracy of all statements but that some, such as made by relatives or other non-journalist sources, can not be validated by any means but that the statements included in the book were quoted exactly word for word and the proper context given. I can say that throughout the book the difference between statements verifiable for accuracy and statements made "off the record" was always made clear and opinions and suppositions were presented as just that. I saw no instance of exageration, misrepresentation, or wanting attack on Obama’s character but, to the contrary, every effort was made to take Obama at his word, to give him the benefit of reasonable doubt, and to assume his actions and statements had the most honorable of motives.
After reading this book I no longer see Barack Obama as an empty suit who is so inexperienced in politics he lacks any real position on critical issues or the ability to express them. What I do see in Obama is a coldly calculating, far left Karl Marx socialist devoted to changing the USA into a socialist nation where individuals have no importance other than their inclusion in the all powerful state, which he plans to be a part of. The reasons to conclude such about Obama are many and the disturbing facts that have come out about his associations and his own statements are just the tip of the iceberg where his socialist ideology is concerned. Many have reasoned that Barack has associated with the likes of William Ayres, Tony Rezko, Jerry Kessler, Jeremiah Wright, and Saul Alinsky, not, as he says, by accident or coincedence, but because Obama believed in their politics. Many have also deduced that Obama is a socialist by what Barack himself has said in his campaign speeches and has espoused as his platform. This book, ObamaNation, affirms this assessment of Obama’s political agenda in a very well thought out gathering and presenting of known facts and statements by his associates and interviewers.
The single most important aspect of Obama’s political beliefs is the influence of Saul Alinsky, a self-proclaimed Marxist and 60s anti-establishment radical. His claim to fame is as the father of community organizing, a method of attaining considerable power in the form of supportive voter groups. The support of these voters was not to be gained by, as Alinsky put it, "with assistance to the poor or even by organizing the poor to demand assistance," but by "obtaining power at all costs including sacrificing your own morals to lie, cheat, and steal, knowing that with power comes the ability to change what is real, but a deficiency of power can achieve nothing". Alinsky urged his followers to attend public meetings and rallies and listen to what was being proposed, not for the intent of ever working for the changes the people believed necessary, but for the collection of issues solely for the purpose of using these issues as talking points in organizing campaigns to unite the people behind a common cause, a cause which could be forgotten as soon as the targeted candidate had been elected. Eventually, Alinsky’s radical, dishonest approach to political organizing found a welcoming, well organized group willing to accept his teachings in the Democratic Party. For near 40 years the Republican and conservative agenda have been hammered by the left through the successful use of Alinsky’s tactics. Barack Obama is only the most recent Democrat to put them to use, but he is, by far, the most un-American, socialist individual to be a candidate for the presidency.
Obama’s use of the word "change" is right out of Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, and was defined by Alinsky as redistribution of wealth and the demotion of individuals to a component of the state. Alinsky believed, "The single most formiddable obstruction to individual rights is the individual." Barack Obama took Alinsky’s teachings to heart in his organizing work, and put them to effective use in his campaigns for state and federal offices. He is still utilizing these immoral, un-American tactics in his present campaign for president. His method of addressing negative aspects of his background which are made public have become infamous. First he denies any knowledge of the situation, then, when it is shown he did have knowledge, he claims that it came as a surprise and he disavows any belief in the offending matter. When his support of and adherance to the principals in question is shown, he rebukes the offending parties as being extreme and un-American, and tosses their support and long term association aside as if surprised by the nature of their offense. He has, during his campaign, denounced and disaccoiated himself from almost every person who has supported his political career to this point, all for political expediency.
It has become very clear, after reading the logic of Jerome Corsi, that Barack Obama is someone whom the people have always feared would rise up in American politics, the one who would bring disaster and ruin upon America, her people, and the way of life enjoyed by a free, law abiding nation. Read the book ObamaNation and decide for yourself if Obama loves America or if he wants to tear it down and build a nation of zombies instead. There can be no question when all the evidence is intelligently considered.
Glenn Flowers