OK folks, I am going for broke here at BJBrownsblog tonight. This is the last dying gasp of My Gore Hypothesis -- I promise, Keith.
Recall that Obama is a disciple of Saul Alinsky. For analysis on that search this blog for Alinsky. Be sure to hit this link if you want the backstory on Alinsky.
And this post of mine from last April.
The teaching of Saul Alinsky of most import in this hour is his teaching on how to manipulate the masses into social change. Allow me to quote from another blogger on that:
Barack Obama had just graduated from Columbia and was looking for a job. Some white leftists were looking for someone who could recruit in a black neighborhood in the south side of Chicago.
Obama answered a help-wanted ad for a position as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago. Obama was 24 years old, unmarried, very accustomed to a vagabond existence, and according to his memoir, searching for a genuine African-American community.
Both the CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned how to "rub raw the sores of discontent," in Alinsky's words.
One of Obama's early mentors in the Alinsky method was Mike Kruglik, who had this to say to an Ryan Lizza of The New Republic, about Obama: "He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards. As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better."
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.
In these methods, euphemistically labeled "community organizing," Obama had a four-year education, which he often says was the best education he ever got anywhere.
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Now for the application:GOP Thesis: McCain, White, rich, Establishment, values voters, free trade, open markets, strong economy, Iraq war good, Afghanistan war winnable, America basically good, private wealth good, Sarah Palin wonder woman, pro-life,. pro-traditional marriage, pro-traditional values, Obama a MarxistDEMOCRAT Antithesis: Obama, Black, poor, Change, ACORN, fair trade, closed markets, weak economy, Iraq war bad, Afghanistan war lost, America basically evil, redistribute the wealth, Sarah Palin a disgrace, pro-abortion, pro- gay marriage, pro-progressive values, Obama a SaviourAre we rubbed raw yet??????? Why yes we are!!! Very raw, as raw as we have ever been in a generation.
And so we are ready, more than ready, for synthesis.Here is how I hypotheses that it will arrive tonight at 8 pm EST ....
Obama notes how sad he is about this divided nation, how he wanted to bring us together not drive us apart. Alas he has become a divisive figure due to the politics as usual and GOP attack machine and our blighted history. Not the first time a career has been ruined by this dysfunction system. Denied us our best and brightest in 2004 and 2000.
Then Obama turns to the camera and states that it is not often one has the opportunity to revisit the past and right a wrong. That opportunity is now upon us . . . to right a great wrong done to a great man in 2000.
And with that Obama asks the nation to join him and Joe Biden in finding purpose and unity under the wings of Al Gore, the Nobel prize winner, the statesman, the man of principle and the friend of the global economy.
A man with EXPERIENCE in spades. And a proven track record. And let us not talk about global warming, er, lets talk about global climate change instead. (As in colder!)
And Obama's community organizing on a national stage is a home run! On Thursday the US market soars, Europe applauds, NGO's praise Obama's choice, the media fawns and dogs stop chasing cars. (Well maybe not the latter.)
Gore immediately asks Colin Powell to stand with him. Powell agrees, stating that the wars would be conducted under all new management starting the day of the Inauguration.
The GOP is stunned. Even Rush stutters. Some defect and state that it is best to all rally around Gore at this time to heal the nation. Some who have been primed and planted for just such defections. The GOP strategy is shattered, since it no longer has Obama to focus its message upon.
And Gore wins almost 70% of the popular vote while running the table on the electoral college. His coattails prove long as Reagan's, and he ends up owning all of Congress with veto proof majorities.
He is then the King of America and the GOP is a smoking ruin.
OR NOT!!!!
Hey, if this is not right and the Dems gamble with JellObama and lose then they can always come here to cry in their beer about what could have been!!!
