Posted on 03/25/2007 7:21:02 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
CHICAGO -- The job offer to "Miss Hillary Rodham, Wellesley College" was dated Oct. 25, 1968, and signed by Saul D. Alinsky, the charismatic community organizer who believed that the urban poor could become their own best advocates in a world that largely ignored them.
Alinsky thought highly of 21-year-old Rodham, a student government president who grew up in the Chicago suburbs. She was in the midst of a year-long analysis of Alinsky's aggressive mobilizing tactics, and he was searching for "competent political literates" to move to Chicago to build grass-roots organizations.
Seventeen years later, another young honor student was offered a job as an organizer in Chicago. By then, Alinsky had died, but a group of his disciples hired Barack Obama, a 23-year-old Columbia University graduate, to organize black residents on the South Side, while learning and applying Alinsky's philosophy of street-level democracy. The recruiter called the $13,000-a-year job "very romantic, until you do it."
Today, as Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton face off for the Democratic presidential nomination, their common connection to Alinsky is one of the striking aspects of their biographies. Obama embraced many of Alinsky's tactics and recently said his years as an organizer gave him the best education of his life. Clinton's interest was more intellectual -- she turned down the job offer -- and she has said little about Alinsky since their association became a favorite subject of conservative critics during her husband's presidency.
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Alinsky was a communist. His motives were pure and completely evil. He wanted to redistribute income to help 'poor' people adjust the 'crime' of property which had been done to them.
Hillary and Barry Obama come out of this tradition.
Boy, is that a Communist statement?
So far, just what 'response' either actually shown us "ordinary people?"
Of course he was. The reason I posted this was to demonstrate the Wash Post's efforts to whitewash Clinton's and Obama's ties to Alinksy.
A "community activitist" my butt. form his writing
He will fight conservatives whether they are business or labor leaders.
His rule for radicals (pretty much the template of political compaigning on either side)
Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
Never go outside the experience of your people.
Whenever possible, go outside of the experience of the enemy.
Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.
The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Please go back and read what he said about the ends justifying the means. Pure Marx.
"The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself."
This explains why the Anti-American movement today aligns itself with Muslim terrorists -- they themselves are terrorists.
I still stand by my first prediction - Obama will be Hillary's VP.
She must have the black vote .. and this may be the only way she can get all of it.
They are both funded by Soros; along with other common ground - Alinsky.
Gotta read this one later.
Alinsky = Charlie Manson
Hillary = Lynnette squeaky fromme
http://www.squeakyfromme.org/write.htm
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