From Acorn & Alinsky to the Presidency

After graduation from Columbia College Barack Obama moved to Chicago to take a job with the Developing Communities Project(DCP) an organization founded and based on the thinking of Saul Alinsky. Saul Alinsky was a native of Chicago widely regarded as the father of Community organizing. The agitator's job, according to Alinsky, is first to bring folks to the "realization" that they are indeed miserable, that their misery is the fault of unresponsive governments or greedy corporations, then help them to bond together to demand what they deserve, and to make such an almighty stink that the dastardly governments and corporations will see imminent "self-interest" in granting whatever it is that will cause the harassment to cease.

It was during this time period that he was first introduced to Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). He taught community organizers for ACORN - a controversial leftist group active nationwide that has pled guilty to voter fraud, and which is under intense scrutiny for reported illegal activities in Baltimore.

Obama left DCP after three years and returned to college. After his graduation from Harvard he returned to Chicago to work for Project Vote. Project Vote is an organization funded and controlled by ------ ACORN with a board of directors drawn from ACORN leadership. The Chicago group's slogan-"It's a Power Thing" coupled with funding from labor unions, the Clinton/Gore campaign and the influential religious communities of inner city Chicago registered more than 150,000 minority voters in 1992.

Obama left Project Vote and went to work for a Chicago law firm where he met Marilyn Katz, who gave him entry into another activist network: the foot soldiers of the white student and black power movements that helped define Chicago in the 1960s. Marilyn Katz is a former leader of Students for A Democratic Society (SDS) a radical Anti Vietnam war group which organized violent protests during the Vietnam era. This was also the time when Obama developed his relationships with William Ayers, and Benardine Dohrn unrepentant members of the radical Weather Underground that bombed the United States Capitol and the Pentagon to protest the Vietnam War. Ayers and Obama worked to reform the city’s education system. appearing together on academic panels, including one organized by Michelle Obama to discuss the juvenile justice system, an area of mutual concern. According to a New York Times Article “Mr. Obama further expanded his list of allies by joining the boards of two well-known charities: the Woods Fund and the Joyce Foundation.
These memberships have allowed him to help direct tens of millions of dollars in grants over the years to groups that championed the environment, campaign finance reform, gun control and other causes supported by the liberal network he was cultivating. Mr. Brazier’s group, the Woodlawn Organization, received money, for instance, as did antipoverty groups with ties to oralinsky.ganized labor like Chicago Acorn, the Woods Foundation bord of directors is also comprised largely of ACORN Leadership.

In 1995 Obama threw his hat in the political ring, running for the State Senate of Illinois with the endorsement of groups like Chicago Acorn - and the rest is history. But whose history and legacy are being recorded? ACORN’s?