IT'S OBAMA'S WAY -- ANYTHING GOES

Victor Davis Hanson notes some history of Obama's methods:

Individually, the extra-electoral efforts are irrelevant. But in the aggregate, they start to add up. In 1996 Obama goes to court, challenges the petition signatures of mostly African-American voters, and gets all his rivals eliminated from the ballot and so de facto runs unopposed.

In 2004 sealed divorce records were strangely released destroying the chances of his chief Democratic rival Blair Hull; then in the general, lightning again struck, and Republican front-runner Jack Ryan's sealed divorce records were likewise mysteriously released—and he too crashed, in effect, leaving Obama without a serious primary or general election rival.

In this campaign, Acorn galvanizes to register voters and almost immediately runs into serial charges of voter registration fraud. Now an Obama ad runs asking Americans simply to take the day off to help get out the Obama vote: apparently American businesses, universities, and the government all are supposed to sacrifice hundreds of millions of dollars in lost collective work days to subsidize the Obama campaign in order "to change history"?

When one marries all that with the swarming of radio stations when someone like Stanley Kurtz goes on, the threats to go to court to stop ads, or the blacklisting of TV stations who dared to conduct tough interviews, the same old pattern reappears of by any means necessary. And in turn the explanation for all that?

Add in the demonization of Joe the Plumber, who was minding his own business in his own driveway when Obama came up looking for a vote with cameras following.

And now add in the discovery of deliberate massive fundraising to bring in illegal campaign contributions.

For Obama, the end justifies the means. In his earlier efforts the Democratic Chicago machine took care of the opposition candidates. Obama himself helped train ACORN in voter registration and intimidation of bankers, so he knows their methods. And the Chicago Democratic machine is running Obama's campaign, so the intimidation of critics and the underworld methods of fundraising are being handled by experts.

Obama's morality is traceable to his Marxist traiining. The Saul Alinsky school of communist community organizing in which Obama immersed himself makes it clear: There is no such thing as right or wrong except as you see it. The end does justify the means. All means are okay. Truth is a commodity to be bent and twisted as you see fit to reach the goal. Use the smokescreen that best works with the masses. Tell them anything they'll believe to win. Alinsky's hero, to whom he dedicated his manual for social revolution, was Lucifer, who defied God and gained a kingdom.

Hanson concludes his observation this way:

The messianic style—the cosmic tug to "change history", or stop the seas from rising or the planet from heating, juxtaposed with the creepy faux-Greek columns, Michelle's "deign to enter" politics snippet, the fainting at rallies, the Victory Column mass address, the vero possumus presidential seal, and the 'we are the change we've been waiting for' mantra—reflects the omnipresent narcissism: the exalted ends of electing a prophet always justify the often crude and all too mortal means.

If this is considered 'right', I'd rather be wrong with McCain.