Barack Obama is not all that he appears to be. He has a very troubling background which lead to many troubling beliefs which he sometimes reveals. I am not sure the change he wants is what we think it is. Let's go back in time.

Obama was looking for a job after graduating from Columbia and answered an ad for a help-wanted position as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calmet Community Religious Conference.The CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation where paid organizers learned how to "rub raw the sores of discontent". The agitator's job, according to Alinsky, is first to bring folks to the "realization" that they are indeed miserably, 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 horrible governments and corporations will see imminent "self interest" in giving them whatever would stop them from harassment.

One of Obama's early mentors in the Alinsky method was Mike Kruglik, who relayed this message to Ryan Lizza of the New Republic: "He (Obama) 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 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 the carrot of hope that they could make things better."

Alinsky was a confirmed atheist, who believed in the here and now and had no reservations about various versions of morality in the quest of worldly power. He didn't baby his radical acolytes or encourage them to define the differences between good and evil when it came time to transfer power from the Haves to the Have Nots. Already formed church communities were the perfect breeding grounds for agitation and creating bonds for demanding goods and services.

These are the beliefs that Barack Obama was following. A little scary I think.

When Obama first started agitating Chicago's South side poor, he was unchurched (except for his Muslim, Catholic and atheist influences). His office was in a church however. The people he was trying to organize and agitate were church people, pastors and church members who took their churches very seriously.  This became a problem for the unchurched Obama when he was asked over and over "where do you go to church?" He evaded the question for a while, but finally gave in and joined a church. It was not just any church.  It was the Reverend Jeremiah Wright's church. 

The story will continue...