The Grand Pooh-bah of Community Organizers

Photo caption reads: Obama teaching at the University of Chicago Law School. The topic is apparently "Power Analysis," also his topic at ACORN training. The illustration is labeled "Relationships Built on Self Interest."

FNC’s Glenn Beck pulls the curtain back on the Oval Office and Lord High Community Organizer Barrack Obama, in his latest installment of “The One Thing.”

“Pick the target. Freeze it. Personalize it. Polarize it.”

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