Barack Obama's "People's Platform"
Barack Obama's "People's Platform"
Barack Obama's "People's Platform"
In 2008 Barack Obama swept into the presidency on a message of change and a new direction for the country.
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
-President Barack Obama
After two years of radical liberal policies, the American people have said no thanks' to the change President Obama had in mind. As a more conservative approach returns to power, can the olive branch of bipartisanship being extended by President Obama be taken at face value? To know the answer to this question is to know the man it's being asked about.
The truth is the American people know nothing about Barack Obama the man. His launching mechanisms to political power are brimming with associations with socialists, communists, domestic terrorists, and religious zealots. Tony Rezko, Bill Ayers, James Meeks, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Rev. Michael Phleger, the names go on and on
Obama's ideology and associations were available long before his ascendancy to power, but a serious discussion of what the man stood for as opposed to what he read from a teleprompter was never had.
The American people, desperate to ease their economic pain, wore blinders to the negative ideological identity shift that our nation would suffer as a consequence. With the help of the mainstream media, candidate Obama's personal ideology and past associations were dismissed as he rose to power under a banner of change' that Americans failed to grasp.
To avoid the same mistakes of 2008 and minimize the future impact of the past two years, Americans must know the radical governance Mr. Obama intended all along. So comes Barack Obama's change, his People's Platform.'
"We come before our nation, not to petition with hat in hand, but to rise as one people and demand.
We have waited and watched. We have hoped and helped. We have sweated and suffered. We have often believed. We have frequently followed.
But we have nothing to show for the work of our hand, the tax of our labor. Our patience has been abused; our experience misused. Our silence has been seen as support. Our struggle has been ignored.
Enough is enough. We will wait no longer for the crumbs at America's door. We will not be meek, but mighty. We will not starve on past promises, but feast on future dreams.
We are an uncommon people. We are the majority, forged from all minorities. We are the masses of many, not the forces of few. We will continue our fight until the American way is just one way, until we have shared the wealth, until we have won our freedom.
This is not a simple vision, but a detailed plan."
This is the preamble to ACORN's radical manifesto known as the "People's Platform." It was revised and commemorated in 1990, just two years before a young Barack Obama joined the organization as a trainer for their power' seminars.
"I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official"
President Barack Obama, 2007 Speech to ACORN
While underneath ACORN holds to radical economic framework and a confrontational 1960's-style ideology, their strategy has changed. Acorn has found success flying under the radar, organizing locally in liberal urban areas, and appearing less radical ideologically on the surface.
Up until recent voter fraud convictions and a bankruptcy filing on November 2, 2010, many looked to ACORN as simply a mechanism, albeit fraudulent mechanism, to promote the right to vote. But look beyond the stale rhetoric, and you'll see that the real ACORN agenda involves much more. Best illustrating the roots of ACORN ideology is Sol Stern in, ACORN's Nutty Regime for Cities.
"It is no surprise that ACORN preaches a New Leftinspired gospel, since it grew out of one of the New Left's silliest and most destructive groups, the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO)." "ACORN promotes a 1960s-bred agenda of anti-capitalism, central planning, victimology, and government handouts to the poor. As a result, not only does it harm the poor it claims to serve; it is also a serious threat to the urban future."
The real ACORN finally came to the surface through charges of corruption, fraud, and a host of other indiscretions in the name of promoting their radical agenda. The government subsequently cut off funding to the organization which led to the recent bankruptcy filing. But thinking they are finished is a mistake. The ACORN name may be gone, but radicals will surely reorganize the People's Platform' ideology in renamed groups all over the country.
"Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day."
-President Barack Obama
The same should be said of President Obama's olive branch. The President is not conciliatory or tone-deaf to the message sent to him by the American people at last weeks' election. He simply rejects it. He rejects it as an ignorant viewpoint that fundamentally contradicts with the ideology he shares with the ACORN manifesto. The ideology he has fought for his entire career.
As ACORN has found success in shifting its message to appeasement while disguising its true radical agenda, it must be concluded that President Obama is doing the same thing. He cannot be expected to fundamentally change his longstanding ideological beliefs. He is simply stepping back and reassessing the angle in which to accomplish them. After all his kind of change, the People's Platform,' moves inch by inch, day by day.
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