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| Sat, 09-06-2008 - 5:57pm |
So, as we all know, Obama says he was a "community organizer" and "stayed active in his community". I never doubted that at all. He seems like the kida guy who would stay an active member in his community. We need people that will be active and productive members of society. We need more of them. I totally agree. But, I never really looked into what he was an organizer of. But here it is.
Barack Obama was a founding member of the board of Public Allies in 1992, resigning before his wife became executive director of the Chicago chapter of Public Allies in 1993. Obama plans to use the nonprofit group, which he features on his campaign Web site, as the model for a national service corps. He calls his Orwellian program, "Universal Voluntary Public Service."
Big Brother had nothing on the Obamas. They plan to herd American youth into government-funded reeducation camps where they'll be brainwashed into thinking America is a racist, oppressive place in need of "social change."
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.
In exchange, they'll get a monthly stipend of up to $1,800, plus paid health and child care. They also get a post-service education award of $4,725 that can be used to pay off past student loans or fund future education.
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.
"Our alumni are more than twice as likely as 18-34 year olds to . . . engage in protest activities," Public Allies boasts in a document found with its tax filings. It has already deployed an army of 2,200 community organizers like Obama to agitate for "justice" and "equality" in his hometown of Chicago and other U.S. cities, including Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Phoenix, Pittsburgh and Washington. "I get to practice being an activist," and get paid for it, gushed Cincinnati recruit Amy Vincent.
Public Allies promotes "diversity and inclusion," a program paper says. More than 70% of its recruits are "people of color." When they're not protesting, they're staffing AIDS clinics, handing out condoms, bailing criminals out of jail and helping illegal aliens and the homeless obtain food stamps and other welfare.
Public Allies brags that more than 80% of graduates have continued working in nonprofit or government jobs. It's training the "next generation of nonprofit leaders" — future "social entrepreneurs."
The Obamas discourage work in the private sector. "Don't go into corporate America," Michelle has exhorted youth. "Work for the community. Be social workers." Shun the "money culture," Barack added. "Individual salvation depends on collective salvation."
"If you commit to serving your community," he pledged in his Denver acceptance speech, "we will make sure you can afford a college education." So, go through government to go to college, and then go back into government.
Many of today's youth find the pitch attractive. "I may spend the rest of my life trying to create social movement," said Brian Coovert of the Cincinnati chapter. "There is always going to be work to do. Until we have a perfect country, I'll have a job."
Not all the recruits appreciate the PC indoctrination. "It was too touchy-feely," said Nelly Nieblas, 29, of the 2005 Los Angeles class. "It's a lot of talk about race, a lot of talk about sexism, a lot of talk about homophobia, talk about -isms and phobias."
One of those -isms is "heterosexism," which a Public Allies training seminar in Chicago describes as a negative byproduct of "capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and male-dominated privilege."
The government now funds about half of Public Allies' expenses through Clinton's AmeriCorps. Obama wants to fully fund it and expand it into a national program that some see costing $500 billion. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded" as the military, he said.
The gall of it: The Obamas want to create a boot camp for radicals who hate the military — and stick American taxpayers with the bill.
I got this story from Investor's Business Daily.

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Considering that when I googled "Investors Business Daily" and "Obama" the editorials that came up were the same slanted stuff about whether or not Obama is a Muslim, etc., etc., etc., I have a difficult time taking this as fact.
From the Public Allies website:
Public Allies is also well
Thanks for the links!
"All three major presidential candidates, including Sen. John McCain, the Republican contender, haveexpressed strong support for AmeriCorps and other national-service programs."
AmeriCorps NOT Public Allies which was FOUNDED by Obama and Executive Administrator Michelle Obama.
http://www.americorps.org/
"From the start, Public Allies was backed by the federal government. It won money its first year from theCommission on National and Community Service, when President George H.W. Bush was president."
Bill Clinton was the President when Public Allies was first founded, not George H. W. Bush.
This is from the Public Allies web site:
"Every program funded by AmeriCorps is considered an AmeriCorps program, and every participant in an AmeriCorps program is called an AmeriCorps member. Public Allies was identified by former President George H.W. Bush as a model for a national service program in 1992. President Clinton also recognized Public Allies as a model for AmeriCorps, and we were one of the original AmeriCorps programs."
Good try!
Not according to the Public Allies website:
In 1992, two young women, Vanessa Kirsch and Katrina Browne, mobilized a diverse network of
What a wonderful program.
A part of Bush's "Thousand points of light", right? Sounds like it.
A part of me hates posts like this thread's original post. It is divisive and quickly refuted. But each claim made about ANY candidate, particularly if it is outlandish, prompts me and others to do more research and the misinformation is refuted as quickly as it's distributed. Good show tracking down the "real deal" about this article.
Bingo!! Erin hit the nail on the head! :)
Anyone with half a brain should be at least somewhat behind this type of program. What in the world could be bad about teaching our youth to think above and beyond themselves? What in the world could be bad about our children earning their educations??
This country has gotten too darn selfish. Programs like this are needed to help combat the me syndrome that is so pervasive in modern American society.
Good gracious, if the government doesn't do it, I just might do it to my own kids! :) (i.e. "I'll pay for your college tuition, if you'll do two years in social service.") I think it'd be great for them to spend some time in public service before they head off to college. It might even give them a better sense of their strengths and passions, so they don't end up changing their major three times and still end up in a job they simply tolerate.
This idea that Obama is some extreme racist is so ridiculous.
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