WARNING! "Barack Obama뭩 most important radical connection", "the largest radical group in America"!

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Thu May-29-08 12:12 PM
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WARNING! "Barack Obama뭩 most important radical connection", "the largest radical group in America"!

ACORN: http://www.acorn.org/

Yes, ACORN.

Some idiot said that; read on:

Inside Obama뭩 Acorn
By their fruits ye shall know them.

By Stanley Kurtz

What if Barack Obama뭩 most important radical connection has been hiding in plain sight all along? Obama has had an intimate and long-term association with the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn), the largest radical group in America. If I told you Obama had close ties with MoveOn.org or Code Pink, you뭗 know what I was talking about. Acorn is at least as radical as these better-known groups, arguably more so. Yet because Acorn works locally, in carefully selected urban areas, its national profile is lower. Acorn likes it that way. And so, I뭗 wager, does Barack Obama.

This is a story we뭭e largely missed. While Obama뭩 Acorn connection has not gone entirely unreported, its depth, extent, and significance have been poorly understood. Typically, media background pieces note that, on behalf of Acorn, Obama and a team of Chicago attorneys won a 1995 suit forcing the state of Illinois to implement the federal 뱈otor-voter� bill. In fact, Obama뭩 Acorn connection is far more extensive. In the few stories where Obama뭩 role as an Acorn 뱇eadership trainer� is noted, or his seats on the boards of foundations that may have supported Acorn are discussed, there is little follow-up. Even these more extensive reports miss many aspects of Obama뭩 ties to Acorn.

An Anti-Capitalism Agenda

To understand the nature and extent of Acorn뭩 radicalism, an excellent place to begin is Sol Stern뭩 2003 City Journal article, 밃CORN뭩 Nutty Regime for Cities.� (For a shorter but helpful piece, try Steven Malanga뭩 밃corn Squash.�)

Sol Stern explains that Acorn is the key modern successor of the radical 1960뭩 밡ew Left,� with a �1960뭩-bred agenda of anti-capitalism� to match. Acorn, says Stern, grew out of 뱋ne of the New Left뭩 silliest and most destructive groups, the National Welfare Rights Organization.� In the 1960뭩, NWRO launched a campaign of sit-ins and disruptions at welfare offices. The goal was to remove eligibility restrictions, and thus effectively flood welfare rolls with so many clients that the system would burst. The theory, explains Stern, was that an impossibly overburdened welfare system would force 밶 radical reconstruction of America뭩 unjust capitalist economy.� Instead of a socialist utopia, however, we got the culture of dependency and family breakdown that ate away at America뭩 inner cities � until welfare reform began to turn the tide.

While Acorn holds to NWRO뭩 radical economic framework and its confrontational 1960뭩-style tactics, the targets and strategy have changed. Acorn prefers to fly under the national radar, organizing locally in liberal urban areas � where, Stern observes, local legislators and reporters are often 뱒low to grasp how radical Acorn뭩 positions really are.� Acorn뭩 new goals are municipal 뱇iving wage� laws targeting 밷ig-box� stores like Wal-Mart, rolling back welfare reform, and regulating banks � efforts styled as combating 뱎redatory lending.� Unfortunately, instead of helping workers, Acorn뭩 living-wage campaigns drive businesses out of the very neighborhoods where jobs are needed most. Acorn뭩 opposition to welfare reform only threatens to worsen the self-reinforcing cycle of urban poverty and family breakdown. Perhaps most mischievously, says Stern, Acorn uses banking regulations to pressure financial institutions into massive 밺onations� that it uses to finance supposedly non-partisan voter turn-out drives.

According to Stern, Acorn뭩 radical agenda sometimes shifts toward 뱔ndisguised authoritarian socialism.� Fully aware of its living-wage campaign뭩 tendency to drive businesses out of cities, Acorn hopes to force companies that want to move to obtain 밻xit visas.� 밐ow much longer before Acorn calls for exit visas for wealthy or middle-class individuals before they can leave a city?� asks Stern, adding, 밫his is the road to serfdom indeed.�

Read on if you want: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NDZiMjkwMDczZWI5ODdjOWYxZTIzZGIyNzEyMjE0ODI=

***** And join ACORN @ https://acorn.org/join *****

I feel even better about supporting Obama for president after reading this!

Indigo Blue (Sapphire Blue's daughter)