And the cities will burn...

Given much thought about what would happen if Obama is not elected on November 4? Given the recent rise in the polls of the McCain-Palin ticket and the suddenly panicky reactions by Obama-Biden, the anointed one is no longer a shoe-in on Election Day.

For months now, it has been a foregone conclusion that Barack Obama was DESTINED to be President of the United States. Since the addition of Sarah Palin to the Republican ticket, however, things have turned around. Even black voters are starting to voice concerns that Obama might not win. And blacks are not happy about it.

For starters, blacks are nervous and angry because of a perception that if Obama doesn't win, it will be because of his race. The Wall-Street Journal published an article last week stated that

"My audience is upset," she said in an interview. "Some people said they would be so angry it would be reminiscent of the [1960s] riots -- that is how despondent they would be."

Riots? Because the black man didn't win? Is this another strong arm tactic by the left to force whites to either stay home on November 4th or vote for Obama? "Vote or Die?", as P-Diddy would say?

I believe that there will be riots if Barack Obama loses in November for several reasons. First, the left has always cultivated an entitlement mentality in minorities, particularly blacks. In other words, through affirmative action where the less-qualified minority is guaranteed a job or a scholarship or other appointment over a more-qualified white candidate, blacks have been taught by the left from birth that they are intellectually inferior to whites and need help getting ahead in life. And the election is no different. Obama is the only black applicant for President this election, so he should get it based solely on the color of his skin. So, on 5 November, should McCain win, in the eyes of a majority of blacks, they were cheated and will burn the cities to the ground.

Second, and this is another example of the strong arm tactics being employed by the left and being orchestrated by Obama himself, is the Chicago political machine. Headquartered in Chicago, home of the corrupt Daley Family Political Machine and Obama's "community organizer" roots, is the American Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN). ACORN is being investigated in several states for voter registration fraud.

So, we also see how Obama's community organizer roots are working for him in all of the key battleground states. Not surprisingly, Illinois, where ACORN started, is not a state that is investigating ACORN for voter registration fraud. So, how is this a strong arm tactic, you ask? Consider this - community organizing is nothing more than an urban Marxist revolution. Don't believe it?

Obama's training in community organizing came from the students/adherents of Saul Alinsky and his "direct action" methods. Alinsky wrote the book on American radical uprisings and Obama is his biggest student.

In the 1930s, Alinsky organized the Back of the Yards neighborhood in Chicago (made famous by Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle on the allegedly horrific working conditions in the Union Stock Yards). He went on to found the Industrial Areas Foundation while organizing the Woodlawn neighborhood, which trained organizers and assisted in the founding of community organizations around the country. In Rules for Radicals (his final work, published in 1971 one year before his death), he addressed the 1960s generation of radicals, outlining his views on organizing for mass power. In the first chapter, opening paragraph of the book Alinsky writes, "What follows is for those who want to change the world from what it is to what they believe it should be. The Prince was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. Rules for Radicals is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away". The documentary, "The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy," claims that "Alinsky championed new ways to organize the poor and powerless that created a backyard revolution in cities across America."

In his Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing,

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging 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. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families - more than seventy million people - whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default.."

(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

So, perhaps some of these calls to radio programs and posts on blogs are being directed by ACORN to scare and intimidate voters to make sure Obama wins. What really puzzles me is that the mainstream media has made no mention anywhere of ACORN, despite the fact that Obama points to his community organizing days as evidence of his readiness to be President.

If Obama does win, he will have harnessed the same radical direct action used by previous adherents of the method. Perhaps you have heard of some of them?

Lenin, Hitler, Mao

Will we be scared enough to help add Obama to the list?