And in the electrifying US presidential campaign, it is the Democrats who are generating the ideas to help people through more difficult times. To help prevent people from losing their home, Barack Obama has proposed a Foreclosure Prevention Fund to increase emergency pre-foreclosure counselling, and help families facing repossession. What on earth was the point of singling out for praise not just Obama but this relatively arcane policy proposal of his for a Foreclosure Prevention Fund? Does Brown really... 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. The seditious role of the community organiser was developed by an extreme left intellectual called Saul Alinsky. He was a radical Chicago activist who, by the time he died in 1972, had had a profound influence on the...
Wednesday, 10th September 2008
Another triumph for the Prime Minister
6:04pm
Not content with mucking up his prospects at home, Gordon Brown now seems set upon mucking about with the Special Relationship. In a breach with established protocol which disbars him from getting involved in other people’s election campaigns, the Prime Minister made a point of endorsing Barack Obama for the US presidency in The House magazine:Tuesday, 9th September 2008
Revolution you can believe in
7:26pm
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’.
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
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