It’s baffling that anyone is surprised that Barack Obama is carrying on the way he is. His entire life has been about “us” and “them”. As a half-black kid living in Hawaii with a white grandmother of means, he undoubtedly had a difficult time fitting in. Though he more resembled the [often poorer] Polynesian and Filipino kids on Oahu, he went to a school mostly reserved for the privileged. But outside of school, who did he most feel connected with?
Fast forward to his time after university, in his role as a Community Organizer. What exactly does such a person do? One of Obama heroes, Saul Alinsky, provides a very frank explanation. The term he prefers with which to describe a Community Organizer is “Professional Outsider Agitator”. To agitate what? It’s very clear, though Obama’s protective guard in the mainstream media will never admit it, that the major goal of community organizers is to stir up and disrupt the cohesive societies they attack work in. That is what Barack Obama did then and is precisely what he is doing now. It is why he very much supports the loathsome, disgusting “Occupy” protesters. Can you think of any other American president who would support their stated objectives to destroy capitalism and demand that the government provide everything for free?
Though the sycophants on the Far Left refuse to acknowledge how incredibly wrong they were in supporting the past 3 years of an absolutely failed presidency, some past supporters are now seeing Obama’s destruction of America for what it truly is:

Being a way for awhile, I’m now catching up on Dennis Miller radio shows I’ve missed. Here’s one segment from this past Monday’s show that hit several chords with me. I also heard it shortly after talking with a longtime Vancouver friend of mine who has consistently voted Liberal/NDP/Green throughout his 40 years. But he recently lost his job, has bills and taxes mounting and is wising up to the fact that the promised land of the Left is not all it’s cracked up to be. Plus, the never ending “tent city” in the heart of downtown Losercouver is getting harder & harder to stomach.

Can you say “Big Hypocrite“?
N.B. Earning $380,000 per year (gross income) currently puts one in the top 1% of Americans. Michael Moore’s estimated worth is $50 Million. Denial is clearly more than just a River in Egypt.

Grab a tissue.
h/t Marc, who writes; In Raffi’s defence, I suppose that “Letter to a Nation” is considerably more succinct than “Letter to a Barely Legal Asian Hooker of Questionable Immigration Status.”

Boston’s Michael Graham shares his thoughts.

Turns out, it’s Mary Walsh.

Brief language warning but well worth watching:

Open Question: Did all Radical Leftists fail history classes in high school? Oh wait, the Left doesn’t believe in Pass & Fail marks in school because that’s “judgmental”. I see.

In Egypt, a guy gets three years hard labour for insulting Islam.
Next door In Libya, the “transitional leader” (transitional? hardy har har) declares that:

Abdul-Jalil laid out a vision for a new Libya with an Islamist tint, saying Islamic Sharia law would be the “basic source” of legislation and existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified.
He outlined several changes to align with Islamic law, including putting caps on interest for bank loans and lifting restrictions on the number of wives Libyan men can take. The Muslim holy book, the Quran, allows men up to four wives.

Next door in Tunisia, the Islamist party Ennahda is expected to win the most votes, though it is not clear if it will gain a majority.
If we had a ‘…’ Spring and deposed of the secularist dictatorship here in Canada could we marry four women and throw the anti-Christians in jail too?
Now I get OWS.

Follow-up video

Alinsky rode into town on a one-trick pony that the Left has since turned into its warhorse: Agitate one side’s grievances, and appeal to another side’s decency and gullibility in order to provoke the establishment, whose reaction will unite the other two. Then the community organizer charges in on his nag-turned-steed and proceeds to set the rot in motion under the banner of “progress.”
It is the very devil’s work, and Alinsky certainly made a splendid devil: unctuous and whiny at the same time, and always casting himself as the real, heroic victim standing for progress, when in fact he was a particularly nasty, cowardly kind of cultural vandal.
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Alinskyism forces the Right to always be on the defense, shadow-boxing in a hall of mirrors against a foe whose moral turpitude it refuses to credit. If Alinsky stood for anything, it was, like Lucifer, destruction; the Left’s rage is animated by its lust for demolition, and the sooner the Right stops accepting its pretensions, the quicker the real battle can finally be engaged.

Related: Welcome Back My Friends, to the Malaise that Never Ends

Believers in multiculturalism find no reason to be troubled by events like this.

From Portland, Oregon (language warning but very instructive) :

Salim Mansur’s new book, Delectable Lie: a liberal repudiation of multiculturalism, is extremely uncomfortable for Lefties to discuss. So much so, that very few book reviewers will go anywhere near it.
Yesterday Charles Adler had a superb discussion with Mansur. There was also a follow-up segment that featured this review by David Warren. If you’ve long thought there was something rather peculiar about treating all cultures equally, no matter how repugnant some other cultures might be, from these discussions you will gain much intellectual ammunition why.

Scramble their Brains (more likely Fire and Forget)
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation

On his program this morning, Dennis Prager discussed this appearance by Herman Cain on Sean Hannity’s TV show.
Prager pointed out that the Democrats have consistently been able to depend upon about 95% of the Black American vote. How have they been able to do this? [Mostly] White Democrats have been able to successfully convince generation after generation of Black Americans that they are permanent victims of a systemically racist America (aka Republicans) and need the Democrats to protect them. This is, of course, a lie but has been a proven strategy. If the Democrats were ever to lose this overwhelming support of Black America, and not replace it with another voting bloc, they would never again be able to win another election. So it’s absolutely critical to the survival of the current Democrat Party to say whatever is necessary to keep Black Americans brainwashed in this manner.
Is it not interesting to the curious mind how incredibly successful and prosperous the following ethnic groups have been in the United States: Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Vietnamese, and Indians. Through hard work, saving, and education these groups have capitalized on all that the capitalist system in America has offered them.
Contrast this with the striking lack of prosperity of the majority of Black Americans. How is it that “widespread, institutionalized racism” hasn’t hurt all of the earlier groups mentioned but only affects one? Might it be that the real explanation is far different from what Democrat politicians and their echo-chamber sycophants have been proffering?
Democrat infested Detroit provides a stellar example of what’s really wrong in America.
In the weeks & months ahead, when you see Herman Cain disparaged by the Left, including mainstream media “journalists” in the pocket of the Obama administration, you will better understand why Cain is such an incredible threat to them. It’s not just about losing in November 2012, it’s about losing it all. Permanently.

Related: Herman Cain continues his criticism against the hyper-entitlement Leftards demanding free {everything}.

h/t Shawn
Update 1: Strikingly similar   h/t Warren Z.   . . . and further evidence that Secular Leftism is very much a religion . . . or more likely a cult.
Update 2: The Mindless Drone Disease has spread to Seattle.

Here’s a most “fascinating” video from the Occupy Wall Street “protest”. It’s introduced here.

It’s bad enough to see ignorant Leftards parading around in Che t-shirts but for this fellow to proudly wear an East German Military uniform has to take the cake. There should be required viewing in our schools of the startling film, The Lives of Others, which illustrates how incredibly terrible that particular Leftist Utopia really was.
Update: Perhaps this is what the protesters in America are ideally hoping for.   h/t Stephen