Thursday, August 7, 2008

The Silver Tongued Devil: Barrack Obama & Power Politics By Lance Fairchok

You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral arguments.” – Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals

In Jerusalem, the prayer Barack Obama wrote on the stationary of the King David Hotel and inserted in the stones of the Western Wall mysteriously made its way to the press. The cover story is that a young yeshiva student pilfered it. Yet the prayer’s content made it to several newspapers, reportedly pre-approved by the Obama campaign. It is a humble, sincere sounding prayer, one that contradicts the strident and hateful rhetoric of Obama’s Chicago church. It was written for that exact purpose, knowing that whether from official release or the inevitable pilfering, it would come out. The images of his staged piety were quickly included in campaign videos.

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