Trevor Loudon says it is becoming increasingly clear that Barack Obama did not create a movement.  A movement created Barack Obama.

One of the key leaders of that movement is a Madison, Wisconsin, law professor and sociologist -- Joel Rogers.

While not widely known outside "progressive" circles, few people have exercised more influence in more strands of the movement that selected and elected Barack Obama, than has Joel Rogers.

Obama's former "Green Jobs" Czar, the Marxist-Leninist Van Jones has been part of Rogers' network for some years.

Rogers has served with Jones on the board of the Apollo Alliance, a radical led coalition of green groups and labor unions that had considerable input in writing Obama's massive "stimulus package".  Rogers has served as Senior Policy Adviser to Jones' Oakland based Green For All -- the Northern California affiliate of the Apollo Alliance.

Jones credits Rogers with dreaming up the White House economic model -- basically a 21st century "green" version of corporate socialism.  Rogers also allegedly masterminded the electoral alliance that put Obama in the driver's seat.  He then founded the organization that helped write the "stimulus bill", which is now funneling billions into a movement primarily designed to keep the Obama and the Democrats in power.

That's a lot of influence for one man.  Does Van Jones exaggerate?  Let's investigate.

The New Party which Rogers and Dan Cantor founded in the early 90s, was an attempt to to unite the poor, Blacks, Latinos , labor and "community groups" to work with and inside the Democratic Party to elect large numbers of leftist candidates to public office.

The party was essentially amalgam of four organizations -- radical Washington DC "think tank," the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN).

This is just a taste.  There's a ton more here . . .