Stanly Kurtz: Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities...

helps to put together some pieces of the puzzle.

Tip of the Hat to Bob Belvedere, over at The Camp of the Saints (link below), for the heads up on the August 2nd release of  Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities by Stanly Kurtz. 


Ron Radosh has done a comprehensive review over at P.J. Media that is well worth a read.

The unfortunate title — not an attention-grabber in bookstores —does not covey the breadth of his research, the scholarly yet readable and comprehensive analysis of where the president is coming from, and the nature of the social policy Obama will put into practice if he wins a second term. They amount to an entire gamut of initiatives, some well underway, to redistribute wealth not from the fabled 1% — who really do not have enough to save us from fiscal Armageddon even if the government took 80% of their profits — but from the average, middle-class, hardworking citizens who sought better lives and realized the American dream by moving to the suburbs, where the air is cleaner, the schools are decent, and life is peaceful and integrated.

These citizens are the very swing voters Obama is now courting; his many TV commercials about helping the middle class target them. What Kurtz reveals in chilling detail is that the group of radicals surrounding the president — names most of us (including me) are not familiar with — are nevertheless as dangerous and extreme in their goals as Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, and Reverend Jeremiah Wright. While those three are persona non grata in the White House, these unknown radicals are just as important, and they are planning social policy with Obama’s approval.

Here are their names, and when Kurtz’s book is published, they will hopefully become household names and what they advocate will be there for anyone to see. They are: Mike Kruglik, Obama’s boss and his trainer when Obama was a community organizer in the 1980s; Myron Orfield, a University of Minnesota law professor; John Powell, a law professor at Ohio State University who believes America suffers from structural racism; David Rusk, a former mayor of Albuquerque, NM, who favors annexation of the suburbs by the cities; and Linda Darling-Hammond, a proponent of a politicized curriculum for schools, a close associate of Ayers, and a leader in the administration’s effort to create new national standards and tests for our schools.

Just off the top of my head some thoughts:

• Agenda 21
• Fabien Socialists
• "Sustainable Communities"
• Central planning of communities
• A local dem running who reveres the Finland model of schooling (she has zero chance of being elected - thank goodness!)
• The gutting of our school curriculum
• International Baccalaureate program

I have a busy morning and rather than re-invent the wheel take time to read Radosh's review and also check out The Camp of the Saints.