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To: Iwo Jima
Words have meaning. Don't just repeat them because you like the way they sound.

1. It's "mau-mauing," not "mao-maoing." The word has nothing whatsoever to do with Mao.

2. Saul Alinsky's distinctive contributions to political science were his techniques for grassroots organization. Calling someone a "Saul Alinsky Marxist" accuses them of advocating community-level protest actions (violent or non-violent, whatever's most useful) as the primary driver of the Marxist agenda at higher levels.

Ignoring the puerile "Marxist" charge, the "Saul Alinsky" bit is simply incoherent, since a consistent complaint from you Paulestinians has been that the "Establishment" is trying to suppress your candidate. The campaigns of Giuliani, Romney, Hillary, et al. are the exact opposite of what Saul Alinsky advocated, because they're top-down efforts driven at the national level. In fact, far more accurate would be to term Paul a "Saul Alinsky Libertarian."

83 posted on 11/11/2007 10:46:35 AM PST by Fabozz
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To: Fabozz
I am getting old, I had not even thought about it that way.

How iRONic...

86 posted on 11/11/2007 10:49:50 AM PST by ejonesie22 (Real voters in real voting booths will elect FDT.)
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To: Fabozz
It's "mau-mauing," not "mao-maoing." The word has nothing whatsoever to do with Mao.

Thanks for the correction. It's been a long time since I read Alinsky. I'll spell it correctly in the future.

We have reached the point in our decline that it is the establishment that engages in "mau-mauing."
91 posted on 11/11/2007 10:59:16 AM PST by Iwo Jima ("Close the border. Then we'll talk.")
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To: Fabozz

“...techniques for grassroots organization”
now that’s funny!


97 posted on 11/11/2007 11:06:07 AM PST by CRBDeuce (an armed society is a polite society)
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To: Fabozz
Words have meaning. Don't just repeat them because you like the way they sound.

;)

110 posted on 11/11/2007 11:28:11 AM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!" -- Jim Robinson, 09/30/07)
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