Posted by
Bert Chapman on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 7:17:29 PM
Barack Obama makes a big deal that he began his career as a "community organizer" in Chicago. That term "community organizer" sounds innocuous like he was a social worker or some other benevolent philanthropist. The truth is not quite so idyllic. In leftist political rhetoric, individuals who are community organizers attempt to stir up rebellion against what they regard as unjust entrenched authorities. This can usually take the form of agitating for rent control, protesting alleged police brutality against criminal elements, demanding greater welfare benefits or other forms of governmental financial assistance, and generally taking the view that members of ethnic minority groups are helpless victims unable to make rational or intelligence decision on their own and, consequently, in need of greater governmental intervention in their lives. Militantly radical left wing extortion groups like Association of Community Reform Now (ACORN) represent the evil organizational personification of "community organizers" that Obama romanticizes. Is this the "change" Barack Obama wants to impose on America?
What Obama should have done in his community organizing days was encouraging people in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods to have their kids stay in school and apply themselves to their education. He also should have encouraged them to refrain from using illicit drugs and alcoholic beverages, and to avoid sexual activity outside of heterosexual marriage. Engaging in intelligent and moral lifestyles is the true way to advance one's economic fortunes and sociological prospects instead of agitating for greater governmental control of your life and money. Obama should have advocated that the neighborhoods he was trying to "organize" receive greater police patrolling and that criminals face tougher penalties.
Of course, we all know that having individuals taking responsibility for their lives and actions is antithetical to the political power base and intellectual ideological worldview of statist liberals like Barack Obama and his cohorts in the Congressional Black Caucus and with the preponderance of Democratic Party activists. Rather than bringing about real change in Democratic Party thinking on social policy, Obama wants to resurrect LBJ's Great Society programs which have proven to be an unmitigated disaster for American social policy including the family life of Black America as evidenced by high illegitimate birth rates, absent fathers, and a disproportionate number of black males residing in our prisons. If Obama had the courage to consistently raise this issue and actually advocated policies which would change this situation, he would justifiably be regarded as a transformative political leader. However, don't expect someone who compliantly listened to sermons from "Rev." Jeremiah Wright for decades and who hasn't demonstrated the rhetorical courage to denounce Jesse Jackson to have the intellectual, political, or moral courage to take such a step.
Community organizer Barack Obama is just another leftist political apparatchik who is congenitally incapable of articulating a vision or pursuing and implementing policies which will improve the lives of Americans regardless of their social or economic status. He will remain content to espouse his vapid mantra of "change we can believe in" while advocating statist policies which have proven to be miserable failures in the United States and other countries around the world.