Obama's radical roots.

One of the few verifiable things about Obama's past is that he was a so-called "community organizer" in Illinois. That has such a nice happy ring to it, "community organizer". It brings forth images of a kindly smiling Barack helping out senior citizens and playing basketball with kids in some local school yard. But when we look a little close we see that Obama was deeply involved with one of the most left-wing groups in America - Acorn.

Stanley Kurtz:
What if Barack Obama’s 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, you’d 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, I’d wager, does Barack Obama.
Obama’s ties to Acorn — arguably the most politically radical large-scale activist group in the country — are wide, deep, and longstanding. If Acorn is adept at creating a non-partisan, inside-game veneer for what is in fact an intensely radical, leftist, and politically partisan reality, so is Obama himself. This is hardly a coincidence: Obama helped train Acorn’s leaders in how to play this game. For the most part, Obama seems to have favored the political-insider strategy, yet it’s clear that he knew how to play the in-your-face “direct action” game as well. And surely during his many years of close association with Acorn, Obama had to know what the group was all about.
 
Acorn is a well-organized group of  belligerent urban radicals with a solid anti-business, anti-growth agenda. Their tactics frequently include the intimidation of elected officials and police.

Stanley Kurtz:
200 Acorn protesters tried to storm the Chicago City Council session. According to the Chicago Daily Herald, Acorn demonstrators pushed over the metal detector and table used to screen visitors, backed police against the doors to the council chamber, and blocked late-arriving aldermen and city staff from entering the session.

We are starting to see what Obama's has always been about. His endless use of the word "change" is a smokescreen for his radical and destructive agenda for the USA. An agenda hiding behind that smile.

Stanley Kurtz column

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