IBD: "Obama's radical roots and rules" ... do we really want his kind of socialist "change"?

This is eye-opening and should be required reading for every voter in America. Know the product ... know who you are voting for.

Most Americans revile socialism, yet Barack Obama's poll numbers remain competitive. One explanation: He's a longtime disciple of a man whose mission was to teach radicals to disguise their ideology.

Investor's Business Daily wrote today about where Obama's "changes" came from ... and most Americans would be appalled if they knew the background. Capitalism is the enemy ... America's corporations are a spiritual slum ... typical hard-line radical liberalism.

Sen. Obama was trained by Chicago's Industrial Areas Foundation, founded in 1940 by the radical organizer Saul Alinsky. 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.

On the Obama campaign Web site can be found a photo of him teaching in a University of Chicago classroom with "Power Analysis" and "Relationships Built on Self Interest" written on the blackboard — key terms utilized in the Alinsky method.

The far-left Alinsky had no time for liberalism or liberals, declaring that "a liberal is (someone) who puts his foot down firmly on thin air." He wanted nothing less than transformational radicalism. "America was begun by its radicals," he wrote. "America was built by its radicals. The hope and future of America lies with its radicals." And so, "This is the job for today's radical — to fan the embers of hopelessness into a flame to fight. To say, '. . . let us change it together!' "

Alinsky students ranged "from militant Indians to Chicanos to Puerto Ricans to blacks from all parts of the black power spectrum, from Panthers to radical philosophers, from a variety of campus activists, S.D.S. and others, to a priest who was joining a revolutionary party in South America."

Capitalism always was considered the enemy. "America's corporations are a spiritual slum," he wrote, "and their arrogance is the major threat to our future as a free society." Is it surprising that an Alinsky disciple such as Obama can promise so blithely to increase taxes on CEOs?

Read the entire editorial here. And then call your Republican Committee and ask to volunteer for John McCain because we will need boots on the ground to get the message out to voters.

Virginia is not ready to elect a socialist radical liberal to lead our country. Spread this editorial to everyone you know including your military friends. These are dire times for America.

John McCain for President 2008

Cross-posted at SixtyFour81.com