The Base of Obama's Philosophy

Please read the entire article from Investor's Business Daily (thanks, Dave!). Excerpts to include:

The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee's choice of the word "change" as his campaign's central slogan is not the product of focus-group studies, or the brainstorming sessions of his political consultants.

One of Obama's main inspirations was a man dedicated to revolutionary change that he was convinced "must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, nonchallenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They 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."

Sen. Obama was trained by Chicago's Industrial Areas Foundation, founded in 1940 by the radical organizer Saul Alinsky (Read about Alinsky here. -BZ). In the 1980s, Obama spent years as director of the Developing Communities Project, which operated using Alinsky's strategies, and was involved with two other Alinsky-oriented entities, Acorn and Project Vote.

This is even more disturbing:

Indeed, Alinsky believed in sacrificing ethics and morals for the great cause. "Ethical standards must be elastic to stretch with the times," Alinsky wrote in his last book, "Rules for Radicals," adding that "all values are
relative in a world of political relativity."

Please note the main point: "Ethical standards must be elastic to stretch with the times. All values are relative in a world of political relativity."

I submit that sentence is the very base of radicalism, Socialism, Leftists and the Demorats -- and in particular these days, one Barack Hussein Obama.

Obama was asked, this past Saturday in the Dallas forum with candidate McCain: Does evil exist? How must it be dealt with? Obama responded in summary:

Evil does exist. We see evil all the time. We see evil in Darfur. We see it in the streets of our cities. We see it in parents who abuse their children. It needs to be confronted and confronted squarely. We are not as individuals going to be able to erase evil in the world, that is God's task. We need to have humility in the approach. A lot of evil has been perpetrated on behalf of trying to eliminate evil. Just because we think our intentions are good, doesn't mean that we're going to be doing good.

Asked the same question last Saturday, John McCain responded with two words: "Defeat it."

The final paragraph in the article:

Barack Obama's "Change We Can Believe In" is simply socialism — imposed by stratagem because Americans have never believed in Marxist economics. Saul Alinsky understood this, and his ghost is alive and well — and threatening to haunt the White House.

Equivocation with a relativistic, Socialist education and philosophy? Not for me. I'll clearly vote for McCain over Obama in November and feel good about it.

BZ