VI. Grabbing a Senate Seat with a Little Help from his Trilateral Friends 231... Mr. Obama’s closer relationship with the mayor, coupled with some of his endorsements of
Democrats who championed the kind of patronage politics Mr. Obama had once denounced, left
some supporters feeling as though he was straying from his roots in the reform movement. Last
year, Mr. Mikva said he took Mr. Obama aside to complain about his endorsement of an
alderwoman [almost certainly the infamous racist Dorothy Tillman, whom the Chicago Sun-
Times describes as using historical involvement in slavery by companies and others to extort
payments to herself and her allies] who had supported Mr. Obama in his United States Senate
run and was the focus of newspaper reports about questionable spending on a $19.5 million
cultural center. Mr. Mikva said Mr. Obama’s response was simple: “Sometimes you pay your
debts.” Early last year, Mr. Obama endorsed Mr. Daley in his re-election bid, asserting that
Chicago had blossomed during his tenure. Mr. Miner, the mentor who had brought Mr. Obama
into his law firm in the early 1990s, said he remained an enthusiastic Obama supporter. But,
when it comes to some of Mr. Obama’s endorsements, “I don’t know who he’s listening to.” (Jo
Becker and Christopher Drew, “Pragmatic Politics, Forged on the South Side,” New York
Times, May 11, 2008.)ACORN: FOUNDATION-FUNDED STORM TROOPERS
Another foundation-funded organization that strongly supports Obama is ACORN, a group
which uses real issues like poverty and low wages as pretexts to create gangs of goons and thugs
which are used to target entities various entities to which the foundations are hostile. ACORN is
reportedly heavily funded by such entities as the Woods Fund and the Joyce Foundation, two left-
leaning tentacles of the foundation world where Obama has personally served as a board member.
For many decades, as we have seen, the foundations have used the race issue as the hinge of a
divide-and-conquer strategy designed to – preserve the supremacy of Wall Street financiers in this
society. Now, as the economic depression deepens, it is clear that the foundations have deployed
ACORN as a means of seizing control of social ferment around issues like unemployment, low
wages, poor working conditions, and the like among a broader population, and one not limited by
race. ACORN resembles the old KPD, the communist party of Weimar Germany, which organized
unemployed workers into goon squads and street-fighting units. It also bears more than a passing
resemblance to Bob Avakian’s provocateur organization, the Maoist Revolutionary Communist
Party. ACORN has been specifically responsible for vote fraud actions, and is deeply implicated in
the goon squad operations that were such a prominent feature of Obama’s exclusion and
intimidation tactics during the 2008 caucuses. Right-wing critics of Obama have a hard time
understanding ACORN, since they cannot realize the validity and mass appeal of themes like a
living wage, the fight against predatory lending, and restoring the social safety net provided by the
Aid to Families with Dependent Children or general welfare provisions of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s
great Social Security Act of 1935. The reality is that, with the Democratic Party failing to act on
these vital questions, the field is open for their demagogic exploitation by foundation-funded gangs
like ACORN who will bring growing numbers of the poor and the jobless into action as expendable
shock troops and pawns under the control of ruthless demagogues loyal to the financier ruling class.
One observer comments on ACORN:
Obama’s most questionable tie is to a leftist organization called ACORN. His connection to this
group begins with a woman named Madeleine Talbot. She embraced Obama and taught him the
ropes. He remained a part of this group’s training cadre. Obama taught leadership conferences
for the group while working for Miner, Barnhill & Galland. His connections don’t end there.
Obama actively sought and received the endorsement by ACORN for the US presidency....