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Hillary's Hell Cats

6.3.08 @ 12:01AM

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Good job, Mr. Lord!
-- John Frilando
Lindenhurst, New York

I debated with myself whether to write this under the "Crone Wars" heading or under the Lord piece regarding the UCC and Obama. I do not want to take issue with the inner workings and controversies within the UCC sect. So I decided to use this vehicle for my comment. I fail to understand why anyone is surprised in the least by the treatment of the ladies by the Obama coronation committee. It was wholly predictable. Obama's resigning from Trinity Church was also completely predictable. Only the timing and the ostensible cause was to be decided. Obama's finally throwing Wright and Pfleger under the bus was totally predictable.

Now why would anyone say what I have just written. I have waited, somewhat impatiently, while the entire conservative/GOP side of the political spectrum has vetted the issues of Obama's associations. We have seen the articles regarding the association with Rev. Wright, with Father Pfleger, with Rezko, with Ayers and his wife Dorhn (sp). Where are the articles regarding Obama's association with the teachings and methods of Saul Alinsky, and who is he, and what did he preach? Alinsky would have vociferously applauded the handling of the Clinton female supporters at the hotel in Washington D.C. Alinsky would have vociferously applauded the Obama resignation from Trinity. Alinsky would have cheered Obama on as he threw Wright, Pfleger, and his own grandmother under the bus.

Much has been made of the Hillary Rodham senior thesis on the methods and teachings of Saul Alinsky. Much has been made about Alinsky offering Hillary a job, although she turned him down to go to law school. It has been noted that Hillary was an Alinskyite through and through. No one, it seems, wants to reveal that Obama is a total devotee of the Alinsky method of "community organizing," though he never personally met Alinsky or studied under him. He did study under and learn his craft under three direct disciples of Alinsky in Chicago. Indeed, Obama went on to teach the Alinsky method of community organization and agitation. His web site has, or had, a picture showing him in front of a blackboard, instructing a class, with headings from Alinsky's principles on the board.

If you will do just a modicum of research into Alinsky, and then go to the beginning of Obama's career as a community organizer and come forward to today, you can see how he has been following the Alinsky teachings step by step. It is why he joined Trinity in the first place, as documented in a March 2007 article about Obama in the New Republic. It shows in the way that he insinuated himself with the king makers in Chicago. It shows in his steps to get elected to the Illinois state legislature and the way that he threw a long time Dem female icon under the bus to gain the seat. It shows in the way that he sucked up to the power broker in the legislature and then got his help in running for the U.S. Senate. It showed in the way that he has cut long standing ties when they became liabilities. Just as was Alinsky, Obama is about power for power's sake.

Study the Back of the Stockyards community organizational efforts and results by Alinsky. Study the Kodak case of union organization and victory by Alinsky. Alinsky threatened a "fart-in" at the Rochester Symphony Orchestra as part of his Kodak campaign. What is the Obama equivalent? Study the information regarding Alinsky's almost deification of John L. Lewis, and his United Mine Workers. Study the history of the education of Cesar Chavez by Alinsky and the subsequent organization of the migrant farm workers. Study the history of how Obama got the job of "community organizer" in Chicago in the first place. Yes, there are a few differences in end goals between Alinsky's work and Obama, but there is no difference in the game plan for achieving those goals. Alinsky was proud of being a radical, semi-anarchist. His disdain for all things governmental is well documented. His positive model was the labor union model. Obama, on the other hand, while not disdaining the labor unions, at least as far as they can help him, tends to gravitate to government as his organization of choice to control all that is controllable. Obama is a one-world Socialist of the George Soros model. His announced plans and preferences clearly show that. Hence his preferred reliance on the UN, on international and bi-lateral summits and conferences. If he can get his way, he will likely team with Soros to erase, or at least blur, national boundaries.

Look, I am no professional writer. The Spectator has some fine writers on its roster of assets. I do not want their jobs. What I do want is to know why there has been a curtain of silence drawn around Obama and his devotion to the Saul Alinsky practices, methods, policies, and goal of power for power's sake. Where is the research and feature article on this feature of the Obama thing, like there was with Clinton and his various "-gates." Somebody at The Spectator needs to get it in gear and do the well referenced and cited piece that the public deserves to have pulled together in a readable form, and DO IT NOW.
-- Ken Shreve

Not that anyone needs tutoring on the meaning of the phrase "damned if you do, damned if you don't," but Jeffrey Lord could not have done it better. I've been waiting for Lisa Fabrizio, a strenuous defender of the Roman Catholic Church, publicly to take umbrage at Reverend Hagee's calling the Church "the Great Whore" and to chastise John McCain for accepting his endorsement. If not Ms. Fabrizio, any contributor to TAS. Obviously TAS has a point of view, but on matters such as this, fair is fair.
-- Mike Roush

How does Trinity maintain its religious tax exempt status?

Sorry, but the mere hint of a political discussion from the pulpit would jeopardize our humble Missouri Synod Lutheran congregation's status, how can such overt political overtures from Trinity survive the IRS?

Why isn't anyone raising this issue?
-- Doug Gremel
Seward Nebraska

GROWING FISSURES
Re: John Lomperis' Divided Methodists:

I believe there are two other major factors in why and how radical policies come to the floor in the Methodist Church's General Conference. I can't speak with any authority about the United Methodist Church; but the inner workings of my own denomination may provide some insight. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has long been recognized to be as liberal and the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod is conservative. As with all "liberal" churches, committees are set up to "thoroughly explore and discuss" an issue followed by the prompt stacking of the deck -- usually with the same people who brought the subject up or with known advocates. Usually, the historic orthodoxy of the Christian Church is relegated as simply one option among many and hardly used as a guide through such discussions.

Yet, as "underhanded in plain sight" this may be, it pales compared to the beast that is the National Synod (or General Conference). The first is that when parish representatives go to attend their individual state synod conventions and vote on officers and then representatives to go to the National Synod convention, they have no idea where any candidate stands on any issue. Any such disclosure is strictly opposed by the bishop. Instead, what is disclosed is something like: "X has been married for 23 years with 2 children -- one in high school with the other about to graduate from college. X has been a business owner and member of the Rotary Club for fourteen years as well as a church council member for the last six years." Not exactly the stuff to let you know if X in fact represents you.

The other factor may be a function of the widespread value Lutherans place in loyalty. ("Loyalty" may not rack up there with faith, hope and love, but for Lutherans its pretty close.) In discussing voting during state synod conferences, many if not most express a perception that even if they are against the measure, it is their duty to give the Church what it wants. I would suspect Lutherans are hardly alone in this attitude.

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