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In her game-changing convention speech, Sarah Palin took a swipe at Obama for having been nothing more in his life than a ‘community organiser’.

This prompted the Obama campaign to issue a pained defence of community organisation as a way of promoting social change ‘from the bottom up’. The impression is that community organising is a worthy if woolly and ultimately ineffectual grassroots activity. This is to miss something of the greatest importance: that in the world of Barack Obama, community organisers are a key strategy in a different game altogether; and the name of that game is revolutionary Marxism, writes Melanie Phillips:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2073071/revolution-you-can-believe-in.thtml

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little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.
Thomas Jefferson - [Medicine]

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
In her game-changing convention speech, Sarah Palin took a swipe at Obama for having been nothing more in his life than a ‘community organiser’.
I thought this was the strength of the revolution of '76 that from the grassroots minute men were mobilised in revolution against an Empire.

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Originally posted by der schwarze Ritter
In her game-changing convention speech, Sarah Palin took a swipe at Obama for having been nothing more in his life than a ‘community organiser’.

This prompted the Obama campaign to issue a pained defence of community organisation as a way of promoting social change ‘from the bottom up’. The impression is that community organising is a worthy i ...[text shortened]... llips:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/2073071/revolution-you-can-believe-in.thtml
Perhaps Obama can form a community uprising in Iran of some kind to overthrow their oppressive regime?

What am I saying? He has said that he will sit down with the Iranian President and "reason" with him. Never mind.