The Brains that Explain Barack Obama
September 19th, 2008
While an Obama Presidency might be good for Tony Rezko, Saul Alinsky, William Ayers, Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, Reverend Wright, and Father Phleger, it would not be good for you, the average American. It would not be good for you, the poor American. It would not be good for you, the wealthy American.
Senator Obama’s ascension seems to be a kind of systemic aberration and statistical inevitability. It was only a matter of time before Democrats nominated someone that epitomizes liberal political philosophy. Like Lord Saron, Obama has drawn all the evil to him. So let’s take a look at the brains behind the Barack Obama phenomenon.
Tony Rezko, a fundraiser for the liberal Chicago Machine and close family friend of the Obama’s, was convicted on several counts of fraud and bribery in 2008. Rezko has been a financial supporter of Barack Obama from the beginning.
Saul Alinsky, who compared himself to Lucifer in his book, Rules For Radicals, appears to have taught Obama everything he knows. The Obama campaign has been a textbook application of Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals. Saul Alinsky’s son praised Senator Obama and the Democratic Party for their adherence to his father’s communist philosophies.
“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, Saul Alinsky style, the Communist guru’s son wrote in a letter published yesterday in the Boston Globe” (http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4784).
Speaking of radicals, William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn are also friends and fans of Barack Obama. Ayers, a supporter of Militant Liberalism and participant in Chicago’s Days of Rage riots, is the product of the more violent and aggressive interpretations of American Liberalism today. These are just some of the political influences that Senator Obama has chosen to surround himself with. Let’s look at his economic influences.
Franklin Raines, another criminal, became the CEO of Fannie Mae in 1999. Raines was forced to settle for millions of dollars over charges of fraud for overstating earnings as he ran Fannie Mae into its economic grave. This led to John McCain’s call for oversight of Government Sponsored Entities in 2005, where he mentioned Raines by name on the Senate Floor as he tried to get the US government to act to prevent further acts of fraud and corruption. Franklin Raines is now the brains behind the Obama Economic plan.
James “Jim” Johnson, another advisor to Senator Obama, forced to step down after taking personal loans from the CEO of Countrywide, is a long entrenched political operative for the Democratic Party. He was the campaign manager for Walter Mondale. In the late 1980s he was the Corporate Finance Director at Lehman Brothers. Johnson was the CEO of Fannie Mae from 1991 to 1998 (the predecessor of Franklin Raines). Unless I’m mistaken, Countrywide, Lehman Brothers, and Fannie Mae are all at the center of the current Mortgage and Banking fallout shaking up the US Economy. This is the kind of successful agent of devastating change that Senator Obama chooses to surround himself with.
So we’ve seen Obama’s political mentors to be radicals and terrorists. His economic mentors are people at the center of the current economic crisis that is now reverberating throughout the entire global economy. But what about his personal and moral advisors? Who are they?
Reverend Wright, who inspired the title of Obama’s book, The Audacity of Hope, and who married Barack and Michele, was a close personal friend and mentor to the Obama family. Reverend Wright is a student of James Cone’s Black Liberation Theology, a mixture of ethnic racism, Marxist philosophy, and modern Christianity. Obama was forced to abandon his longstanding mentor when the media discovered a treasure trove of anti-American and bigoted comments that appeared throughout Wright’s many vitriolic Sermons. Obama was also forced to distance himself from the extremist principles of Black Liberation Theology. But this is Obama’s church. The church he chose to attend. These are the influences on his moral mind. Sadly, they are just as radical and aggressive as the ideas taken from his economic and political mentors.
Finally, let’s throw Father Phleger into the mix and under the bus, just for fun. Father Phleger had to be suspended by the Catholic Church after becoming politically enraged during the Wright Scandal, making fun of Senator Hillary Clinton and “White Folks”. Fortunately for Senator Obama, Father Phleger isn’t directly connected to him. However, he is directly connected to Obama’s top adviser David Axelrod, who helped Obama direct $250,000 of Illinois funds to Father Phleger’s church. So much for the Democrats being for a separation of Church and State!
These are the minds surrounding Senator Obama, the minds that have influenced and shaped Obama’s political philosophy. These are the thinkers that make up the 9% of Americans who identify themselves as “Very Liberal”, the tiny minority of Americans that Obama really represents. These are the extremists and militants and radicals whose interests will get top billing and have the most influence in an Obama Administration. And this is the candidate that the Democratic Party has nominated for President of the United States.
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