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While claiming radicals represent democracy, Hillary makes no bones about the connection between Alinsky’s successes and machine politics. Speaking of Alinsky’s signature community organizing effort in The Back of The Yards, a run-down Chicago neighborhood, Hillary explains: “… much of the community’s influence is traceable not to its ‘burning passion’ but to its most illustrious resident, Mayor Richard J. Daley. Mayor Dailey’s assumption of political power in the early 1950s curiously parallels the Council’s growth in power. Many of the mayor’s staff are also residents and share the mayor’s loyalty to the neighborhood.” (P 21-22)

I hate to say it but most of the above paragraph is wrong. In fact -- it's made up bu!!sh*t. How do I know, I lived and grew up there.

For the record Mayor Daley lived in Bridgeport (and his 'people'), not 'The Back of The Yards' (or 'New City'). And trust me there's a HUGH difference.

An aside: I never heard a word from my family of this commie Saul Alinsky. Not until Hillary became 'famous'. And believe me I would have - we HATED Commies (and I STILL DO). Joe Meegan ran the Back of The Yards and its Council.

(and I take exception to the 'run down' comment.)

I hate to say it but most of the above paragraph is wrong. In fact -- it's made up bu!!sh*t. How do I know, I lived and grew up there.

My guess Hillary didn't venture down from Park Ridge often. After all, she say's she was a Cubs fan.