Democrats, Republicans and Hope and Change?

It seems Obama is poised to have a grassroots based power base, one which is not dependent on Washington or the traditional party structures or the constitutional framework for bringing about change:

Team Obama reports that 4,252 “Change is Coming” house parties were held in all 50 states — plus Guam and Puerto Rico. At least 1,950 cities had house parties, and Los Angeles had the largest single party, with 400 people in attendance.

All that is nice and good, I mean we are all for democracy isn’t it?

“One of the goals of these house meetings is to come together with friends and neighbors and think about how you will help Barack pass legislation though grassroots acts in your community. In the course of this meting you’ll lay the groundwork for what you can do over the coming months and years.”

I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to know that  a sitting President has a league of supporters working on the grassroots level to do his bidding. We can see what grassroots acts really mean to those who are at the receiving end.

You know who else governed by passing legislation through grassroots acts? Hugo Chavez , Moammar Gadaffi, Chairman Mao, Fidel Castro and the Ayatollahs in Iran…

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Ok… Barack Throws “Community Organizing” Under the Bus…

Reading an article in The New Republic, it seems Obama has set a new record by throwing something under the bus before he even has cause to throw it there… This is a lengthy article, so I summarized it into something anyone can should be able to follow.

Certainly, Obama has good reason to tout his community organizing experience. After graduating from an Ivy League college, Obama passed up more lucrative jobs to devote three years to organizing low-income African Americans in Chicago. That choice tells us something about his values, and his pride in it is understandable.

But his campaign has taken the point a step further, implying that Obama the politician is a direct descendant of Obama the organizer–that he has carried the practices and principles of community organizing into his campaign, and would carry them into the White House as well. This is the version of Obama’s biography that most journalists have accepted.

In truth, however, if you examine carefully how Obama conducted himself as an organizer and how he has conducted himself as a politician, if you consider what he said about organizing to his fellow organizers, and if you look at the reasons he gave friends and colleagues for abandoning organizing, then a very different picture emerges: that of a disillusioned activist who fashioned his political identity not as an extension of community organizing but as a wholesale rejection of it.

hmmmm

Obama believed that his chosen profession was getting him nowhere, or at least not far enough.

Yet, two decades later, to hear Obama the presidential candidate tell it, those years in Chicago as a community organizer shaped the person–and the politician–he has become. Campaigning in Iowa last year, he declared that community organizing was “the best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School.” In a video this spring, Obama stated that community organizing is “something I carry with me when I think about politics today–obviously at a different level and in a different place, but the same principles still apply.” “Barack is not a politician first and foremost,” Michelle Obama has said. “He’s a community activist exploring the viability of politics to make change.”

Yup, change you can truly believe in!