Saul Alinsky’s son: “Obama learned his lesson well”

Canada Free Press. ^ | Tuesday, September 2, 2008 | Judi McLeod

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

In Artful Dodger style, Barack Obama, plays down his mentorship with Communist author Saul Alinsky.  But Alinsky’s son, L. David Alinsky, credits Obama for “learning his lesson well” from the Communist guru.

Indeed, Alinsky Jr. who credits his late father for the success of last week’s Democratic National Convention, may have done something that Obama’s detractors couldn’t: blown the cover on the presidential hopeful’s communist leanings.

No one can blame Alinsky for the pretentiousness of the Ancient Greek Temple from which Obama addressed plebes, or for the tacky neon colours on display at the Pepsi Centre, but it was Alinsky who wrote Rules for Radicals, the bible of the far left.

Says Alinsky’s son L. David Alinsky of his father’s influence at the Dem Convention: “ALL the elements were present: the individual stories told by real people of their situation and hardships, the packed-to-the rafters crowd, the crowd’s chanting of key phrases and names, the action on the spot of texting and phoning to show instant support and commitment to jump into the political battle, the rallying selections of music, the setting of the agenda by the power people.”

“The Democratic National Convention had all the elements of the perfectly organized event, Saul Alinsky style, the Communist guru’s son wrote in a letter published yesterday in the Boston Globe.

The Artful Dodger may be less than pleased that he has been pegged as a Saul Alinsky Poster Boy by the guru’s own son.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

“Barack Obama’s training in Chicago by the great community organizers is showing its effectiveness,” Alinsky Jr. wrote to the Globe.  “It is an amazingly powerful format, and the method of my late father always works to get the message out and get the supporters on board.  When executed meticulously and thoughtfully, it is a powerful strategy for initiating change and making it really happen.  Obama learned his lesson well.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[allmost]

Bump.

[combat_boots]

how many pillars backed up 0 in the camera shots for that speech? 5?

Five pillars in Islam, too.........

[Paleo Conservative]

[griswold3]

There’s not much groupthink for critical minds here.

[fso301]

Burn baby burn! His utopian society cannot grow without ashes

[truthingod]

I think the Bible has some good advice concerning Obama.

Colossians 2:8 -taken from the Amplified version
“See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit(idle fancies and plan nonsense), following human tradition (men’s ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah).”

Sounds like good advice—better heed it.

[BenLurkin]

Evil

[Yaelle]

Wow. Older article that really NEEDS to stay bumped.

Alinsky’s son sees it. Time for everyone else to get a clue.

[kalee]

I will give it the bump.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Heavy discussion over here:

WH lashes out at CNBC's Santelli

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

His and his Financier...see this thread i started...:

The Capitalist Threat ( George Soros speaks)

This is from February 1997.

[BOBTHENAILER]

wherein paid organizers learned, in Alinsky’s own words, how to “rub raw the sores of discontent”.

Too bad that those really being rubbed raw, are ordinary Americans, who are gonna end up handing the obamination his a$$ets in a beaten up Saul Alinsky hat.

[Albion Wilde]

Colossians 2:8 -taken from the Amplified version “See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit(idle fancies and plan nonsense), following human tradition (men’s ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah).”

It's amplified, all right. Here's the straight KJV:

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
--Colossians 2:8

[truthingod]

Together, we both say-Amen!

[Matthew James]

bttt

[Albion Wilde]

And amen!

[tflabo]

"Let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men who will rule in the fear of God [Exodus 18:21]. . . . If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted . . . If our government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the Divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws"…..Noah Webster, ‘The History of the United States’

[Cacique]

I can’t understand why the modern left lauds Saul Alinsky, he wasn’t original at all and stole the ideas of Lenin, Stalin and Gramsci. But since they can’t claim to be stalinists or have people read Gramsci they point to this phony agent provocateur who would have been dumped by the KGB as an incompetent.