Saul Alinsky's Rules For Radicals At Play Against AIG: Obama's Mastered Rules #10 and #12 to Create AIG Hate

RULE 10: If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive. Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog.

We watched Saul Alinky's Rules for Radicals Rule #10 played out before our eyes nearly perfectly this week. Obama has power unseen of any US leader in history and the power is Alinsky based. When you consider how brilliantly they used the AIG bonuses, bonuses they knew about to create an attitude in this country of discontent towards capitalism and what Obama and the Democrats call greed, you begin to understand how Alinsky's rules are an every day part of Obama's direction at the White House.

Obama gained support of American tax payers who mistakenly feel betrayed by the bailouts; however, they feel the wrong people betrayed them. Obama and his cronies pushed the AIG story negatively this week. They pushed it hard even knowing Timothy Geithner's filthy hands were all over it. It was all negative directed towards confusing the American people of what these bonuses were and their origins. Strangely enough, the American people applauded unconstitutional ideas like an ex post facto AIG bonus tax of 90%, slobbering Barney Frank thinking he is an AIG executive, and elected representatives like Earl Pomeroy calling Americans losers on the floor of the house. Of course who can forget Republican Senator Charles Grassley recommending suicide for the bonus recipients. Talk about other side supporting violence!

Strangely enough, people that I thought were smart enough to understand what's going on behind the curtain direct their anger to AIG and not the government. Many of these people who would sit on my side politically, now resort to violent words towards the AIG employees who accepted their bonuses for their hard work. For some strange reason, the Americans aren't seeing the $9 trillion in deficits Obama works to create. They don't pay attention that Congress allowed their tax dollars to be turned to TARP and given to 13 companies who owe back taxes. They aren't paying attention that Democrat politicians like Governor Jay Nixon go on C-Span ready to spend billions who will happily pass on the debt to the children and grandchildren. No, they blindly follow Obama and applaud him for the illusion he creates, when what he actually does is create chaos and anger, hiding what he is responsible for. As people demand the AIG employees' names and find their homes to threaten them, Obama lackadaisically takes responsibility as if it's a joke and then compares the situation to suicide bombers.

Obama and his band of cronies make the case they are underdog fighting the greedy capitalist who have taken advantage of you poor servants for years. This is the farthest thing from the truth. These people Obama attacks with his rhetoric and soon his taxes, are the same people who have invested in jobs in this country that allow you to put food on your table. The price we will pay his rhetoric and taxes will be a burden that will plague Americans for years if not decades; after all, reports coming from Washington shows he will nearly double the national debt with his current spending. This doesn't even take into consideration what his insistence to print more money (another trillion this week) will do to the value your dollar, your savings, and the cost of the products you work hard to purchase.

In order to make Rule #10 work, Obama also used Rule #12, and has used Rule #12 many times in the two long months he has ruled.

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions.

The target was AIG, mainly it's employees who took bonuses. The employees did no wrong. Think of how Obama followed this rule to turn the public sentiment against AIG. $165 million is a small amount compared to the $180 billion plus AIG received in bailouts. What entity should be the target of all this rhetoric? Let me give you a hint, it's not AIG. When you think how far the Democrats went to personalize the target to further polarize it--demanding the names of Americans who did no wrong, but went to work every day, worked hard, paid their taxes, and received compensation that was in their contracts--it's not hard to see Rule #12 in play to support Rule #10.

Finally, Rule #8 played all week as well.

RULE 8: Keep the pressure on.

There is no pressure on Congress as they continue to spend our country out of existence. They got away with so much this week, all the while they were keeping the pressure on AIG. As reports surfaced about Obama's coming $9 trillion in new debt that will place the United States on course for anywhere between $17 trillion and $20 trillion in federal debt when Obama is done was hardly discussed this week. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, both companies with federal ties, announced their bonuses this week. Not much was said because that would put Barney Frank in a compromised position. The House passed HR1388, which was Obama's plan for required community service for all children. Remember a few days after the election, the unpopular idea showed up on Change.gov and was quickly removed once word spread creating anger towards Obama. All this and so much more was overlooked as the pressure remained on AIG all week.

This will soon die quickly based on Rule #7.

RULE 7: A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag. Don't become old news.

Obama will find a new target to continue pushing his agenda. Watch for it in the next few days. These AIG bonuses will become old news after the weekend, and the anger will start to die. Something new will need to be set in motion to start this cycle all over again. This is the way Obama governs. Back to Rule #10.