Reagan had "Trickle Down Economics"...

Bush 41 had "The New World Order"

Clinton had (hum..there were so many choice ones..) "Politics of Personal Destruction"

Bush 43 had "Compassionate Conservatism"

And now, President Obama is honing the tactic of " The Politics Of Personal Attention"

Though President Obama has been a controversial and often enigmatic character, one thing many can agree upon is his natural charm, charisma, and personable approach and casual demeanor as an enhancement to his political persona. Even many republicans commented after their meeting with him how "likeable" he is, some even commenting that they thought the Gold Standard for political sway and charm would always be Bill Clinton, but that President Obama has met, if not surpassed that. In this day and age of American Idol and MTV, it is no wonder how a young, hip, and "in tune" guy like Obama isn't Presidential material..regardless of how thin and porous his actual accomplishments and resume may be.

This charm, and Obama's perfection of its use, is both an enhancer, and also a weapon...a weapon to his detractors. Let’s just walk back a few months, and recall the personal propeller Joe The Plumber walked into as a result of engaging with then Candidate Obama...being the personable and "approachable" guy Obama portrayed, what would be wrong with a little "straight talk"..a little "meeting of the minds" between the two...and of course the thousands of media stalkers and cheerleaders in the Obama camp...we see how ole' Joe was vilified and eventually improperly investigated (if not illegally..and I thought the Democrats were so concerned about our private lives and information....i.e. The Patriot Act..unless of course it is a potential political embarrassment or challenge..as was Joe), and how he became a whipping boy and lightening rod for a great deal of editorial scrutiny and chastising...all because he engaged with an Engaging Guy...and said and challenged the wrong thing.

Take President Obama's most recent friendly and "engaging" stroll to the White House Press Office...bat it around with the Journalists..just one of the guys..and dare that a journalist would actually ask a question of the President...how dare he "engage" the Engager...that journalist, Rich Lowery I believe, was chastised and condemned for actually asking the President a question....the wrong question (..because lets face it, if it were a standard powder puff ice cream cone pitch from the normal sycophants.."How do you feel, Mr. President?..how are your kids adjusting to the new house, Mr., President?)..and the Engager engaged..and this time, with personal, natural and condescending interpersonal skills that castigated and scolded the journalist...it was a very personal moment..attention was meted out..but the kind you get when you might be the only recruit at boot camp that didn't quite get the last command..and you are the only one still standing ...in the wrong place..in the wrong uniform....yikes..

Now we see the same type of Personal Attention/Charm working..but this time against another private, albeit powerful and influential,  person..and exhibiting a great deal of Personal Attention to him..Rush Limbaugh...and also Sean Hannity. Why would the President of the United States be so engaged and fixated on these two individuals, unless they posed a challenge, deserved some praise, or were going to become members of his cabinet...we can deduce its isn't the latter two...so we know they are a challenge and a concern for the President.

One can debate a great deal why Limbaugh and Hannity might be concerns for the President, and the broader liberal-esque wave descending on the American Body Politic, but it is the subtle and incipient way, with a complicit media and congress, that strikes me as nothing more than disturbing. We endured, and President Bush and his family personally endured, the likes of Keith Olberman, Bill Maher, and scores of Hollywood pseudo-intellectuals that vilified and snidely condemned the President in vile and in some cases despicable political assassination speech ("Mr. Bush...Shut the H*ll Up"..during Olberman's Edward R, Morrow wanna be moment), along with sitting congressional members, including then Senator Obama himself in his comments on our troops (implied, Bush's Troops) bombing of civilians, and air raiding villages...

As I mentioned in a previous Article, The Rules For Radicals , by Saul Alinsky describes and details ways the radical left must separate aspects of the social fabric and have them ostracized and marginalized to advance the liberal agenda...and President Obama, knowingly or otherwise, is playing quarterback on the Liberal agenda team, with the Alinsky book as the playbook. I believe this is an attempt by the President and his proponents to try to cast a death nail in the conservative movement by singling out, marginalizing, and attempting to vilify Conservative Talk Radio as a means for political dissent and opposition. I believe this is a prime motivator to pass the deceptively labeled "Fairness Doctrine".

 

Today’s Topic: The Modern US Liberal Socialist Playbook

Most "day in day out, take our kids to school, work in the yard", Americans have not heard of Saul D. Alinsky. He is, however, the father and author of modern American Radical Liberalism, and is the mentor and reference for many predominant liberals in the political establishment and in media circles. Though there may be millions of Americans that do not know he is a "play book" master, many of us are becoming increasingly familiar with his tactics. These very tactics can be seen and experienced in the Blogosphere, Main Stream Media, and in the local, municipal, and State legislatures across the land.

Wikipedia claims:
"Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals (copyrighted as Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals) is the last book written by community organizer Saul D. Alinsky before his death in 1972. Published in 1971, it was Alinsky's attempt to impart his theory and methods of organizing to the current generation of young activists, largely drawing upon his own experiences."

Alinsky captures in this prophetic statement what many might see as the exact playbook and agenda unfolding in Congress, media (most certainly at MSNBC, Daily Kos, and Huffington Post). Specifically note the underlined sentence. One can almost hear the echoes of "Yes We can..Change..etc.."

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. (editorial comment..one can see a complicate Media creating the conditions through day in day out bombardment of all the ill-fated aspects of the Global War on Terror, and never truly, at least the Main Stream Broadcast Networks, ever focusing on or emphasizing the positive and constructive aspects to reconstruction, military victories, or the second and tertiary affects of great sacrifice by our fighting forces, and our intelligence community. Thus we see a Keith Olberman emerge, and being prompted and comfortable telling a standing President on National Television to "Shut the H*ll Up!"..and he is hailed as some journalistic patriot and Icon by much of the Radical Left. The constant Chinese water torture coverage from Iraq, Abu Ghuraib, "Gitmo", contractors, Halliburton, Intelligence "failures", Ineptitude by all senior Bush Administration Officials, corruption in government, financial meltdowns, CEO compensation, housing crashes....the list goes on and on.., yet very little coverage on the tremendous performance, sacrifice, and incredible bench mark of no further terrorist incidents on American soil after 9/11, that the economy is still performing better than any other in the history of economic growth and opportunity for Americans to prosper) This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families - more than seventy million people - whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don't encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let's not let it happen by default."

In his "Rules For Radicals" Alinsky lays out several rules that can be called the "Play Book" . It is incumbent upon us as Conservatives and preservers of that which is uniquely American to know these rules, observe the Radical Left, and call them on it at every turn, and thwart them when and where necessary. YOU HAVE BEEN ARMED, and FOREWARNED. Use this information, research Alinsky and his followers, and counter the encroachment of Liberal Radicalism into our mainstream culture!