Alinsky, you Magnificent B******, I Read Your Book

The next government salvo has been fired by the Obama administration for the hearts and minds of voters in Hampton Roads: elimination of JFCOM’s 5,000 jobs. While this decision does represent a potentially grave personal and regional economic threat, there is a bigger lesson to be learned: what the government gives, the government can take away.

The larger story is that our elected representatives apparently did not know this was coming. The timing, speed, and targeting of this decision is circumspect. Its real objective is to cripple a state and region, whose voters have decidedly chosen to repudiate the Obama administration’s policies by overwhelming electing a republican governor, who has taken action to balance the state's budget, placed the state on a growth path, and legally confronted his health care and immigration policies.

The Obama administration's strategy is taken straight out of Obama's mentor's (Saul Alinsky’s) book  Rules for Radicals: the particular ends justify the particular means. The ends are to divide and defeat voters of the Commonwealth, in detail, by diverting our dialog and energies from opposing the abysmal failure of the Obama administration’s policies. Instead, they prefer we bicker among ourselves during campaign season and dedicate a larger portion of the news cycle to divining how to remain on the statist government’s form of crack cocaine: federal money. If we don’t play, they will give the crack to someone else.

Instead, we should come together and turn lemons into lemonade by: (1) publizing that we acknowlege and understand the tactic; (2) taking reasonable, coordinated action to delay JFCOM’s demise without diverting resources from our prinicipal mission -- defeating Obama's / Pelosi's / Reid's progressive policies; (3) re-deploying JFCOM's human resources, technology, and facilities to create private sector jobs in the high-tech global marketplace, and (4) firing every progressive representative in Washington in November.

If we think and act strategically, we will be able to say -- as George C. Scott said in the film "Patton," portraying Patton's defeat of forces under the command of Erwin Rommel -- "... you magnificent b******, I read your book!"








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