The Obamas and Public Allies

In 1992 Barack Obama was a founding member of the Board of Public Allies, just before Michelle Obama became executive director in 1993. The Obamas call the program "Universal Voluntary Public Service." Public Allies is a radical group of "community organizers" (read: agitators ala Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson) whose goal it is to convince people, particularly in inner cities, that they are victims of a greedy ignorant government.

Today Public Allies is partly funded by Bill Clinton's Americorps; the Obamas want the program to be fully funded and expanded exponentially across America. From Investors Business Daily:

The pitch Public Allies makes on its Web site doesn't seem all that radical. It promises to place young adults (18-30) in paid one-year "community leadership" positions with nonprofit or government agencies. They'll also be required to attend weekly training workshops and three retreats.

But its real mission is to radicalize American youth and use them to bring about "social change" through threats, pressure, tension and confrontation — the tactics used by the father of community organizing, Saul "The Red" Alinsky.

Why does no one really understand what Obama's community organizing" was all about? Because the media knows where it will lead: to Saul Alinsky, a radical socialist whose views revolved around creating conflict and agitation, particularly among inner city blacks. Not exactly the post racial ideas Obama pretends he represents. Alinksy's theme in his book, Rules for Radicals, also helps explain a lot of Barack's, Michelle's and Jeremiah Wrights frequent anti-American comments:

They [Americans] must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.

To be a successful organizer, one must first convince the masses that America is a "downright mean country" that doesn't care about them.