Posted on 02/18/2008 6:52:31 AM PST by 3AngelaD
Most Americans never heard of Saul Alinsky. Yet his shadow darkens our coming election. Democrat frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both worship at the altar of Alinskyism. In a 1971 book called Rules for Radicals, Alinsky scolded the Sixties Left for scaring off potential converts in Middle America. True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties.
In his native Chicago, Alinsky courted power wherever he found it. His alliance with prominent Catholic clerics, such as Bishop Bernard Sheil, gave him respectability. His friendship with crime bosses such as Frank Nitti -- Al Capone’s second-in-command -- gave Alinsky clout on the street.
In our book The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party, my co-author David Horowitz and I trace the rise of Alinsky’s political influence since the 1930s.
He excelled at wooing wealthy funders....Alinsky once boasted, “I feel confident that I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday...even though he was certain to be executed on Monday.”
One Alinsky benefactor was Wall Street investment banker Eugene Meyer, who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1930 to 1933. Meyer and his wife Agnes co-owned The Washington Post. They used their newspaper to promote Alinsky....
During the Sixties, Alinsky wielded tremendous power behind the scenes. When President Johnson launched his War on Poverty in 1964, Alinsky allies infiltrated the program...
Alinsky’s crowning achievement was his recruitment of a young high school student named Hillary Rodham...They remained friends until Alinsky’s death in 1972....
Fresh out of law school at age 26, Hillary received a prestigious appointment to the House Judiciary Committee’s Watergate investigative team in 1974. She got the job on the recommendation of Peter and Marian Wright Edelman...Marian Wright Edelman also happens to be an Alinskyite, having served on the Board of Trustees of Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation.
Many leftists view Hillary as a sell-out because she claims to hold moderate views on some issues. However, Hillary is simply following Alinsky’s counsel to do and say whatever it takes to gain power.
Barack Obama is also an Alinskyite. Trained by Alinsky’s Industrial Areas Foundation, Obama spent years teaching workshops on the Alinsky method. In 1985 he began a four-year stint as a community organizer in Chicago, working for an Alinskyite group called the Developing Communities Project. Later, he worked with ACORN and its offshoot Project Vote, both creations of the Alinsky network.
Camouflage is key to Alinsky-style organizing. While trying to build coalitions of black churches in Chicago, Obama caught flak for not attending church himself. He became an instant churchgoer.
That Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama share an Alinskyite background tells us two things. First, they are leftists, dedicated to overthrowing our Constitutional system. Second, they will go to any length to conceal their radicalism from the public. That is the Alinsky method. And that is today’s Democratic Party.
And excellent material for political ads. Too bad the GOP isn’t running someone who could win against these Lefties.
Truly Communists have been invading our institutions both in the private and public sectors since the end of World War 11.
They also are doing the same in Europe. The plan was launched to the Public when in the 60’s Nikita Kruschev on INternational T.V. pounded his shoe on a table and said,
“We will bury you from within”.
This Presidential vote, will determine if Niki wins or loses, McCain 2008, or pay the consequences, my fellow American’s!
Very scary indeed. We still haven’t convinced most of middle America the media is biased, much less that this sort of threat is real and not a tin-foil hat conspiracy theory.
Thank you for posting this.
Word-for-word, it should become a Republican mantra for the next nine months, and, imho, serve as a rallying point for all Americans behind the otherwise reprehensible John McCain.
Hillary is still wearing the same suit from way back then...
The principal difference between Hillary and Obama is not race or gender at all, but Saul Alinsky.
I overstate the case, but it is worth noting that where Clinton wrote her thesis on Alinsky's organizational theory, Obama lived it. Where she rejected it as "quaint" and moved on to law school and hitched her wagon to Bill's star, Obama went to the church basements of Chicago; that experience brought him to prominence at Harvard. Hillary became a master of the knife fight, Obama guerilla warfare. Hillary's weapon is influence, Obama's is people.
Both Mrs. Clinton and Obama have repeatedly refused to answer questions about their Alinsky alliance and activities. They consistently stonewall. They need to be pressed.
God man this is all making more and more sense. The antichrist is coming but is it in the form of a radical woman or a radical closet jihadist?
.... my co-author David Horowitz and I trace the rise of Alinsky’s political influence since the 1930s.
Do a search for Communist Goals and The Frankfurt School and learn how much they have accomplished and how they did it.
Most Americans couldn't tell you who The Speaker of The House is.
They could, however, tell you who's in the running for American Idol.
It is reaching a point of no return and electing any democrat will advance the cause by a quantum leap....
I think McCain can win against either of them.
Not unless he grows a pair. And, make comments with respect to hillary as “She has integrity”. McCain will be a roll over unless he becomes a junkyard dog and I don’t see it....
Most Americans can’t name the VP...let alone their Senator, Rep, or Governor, but they DO know the name of the AMerican Idol contestants!! PATHETIC
Well said, just watch the people give answers to the question’s about leaders, on Jay Lenno!
A country that can vote based on the headlines, the morning of an election. Or go along with whoever the MSM is touting as the potential winner by B.S. polls.
Educating the Masses, is the duty of all who do know the truth to may of the answer’s, so help us do our part Almighty God!
And many are not likely to ever hear. After Obama did a big interview with Univision news, somebody, not me, got on the very active Univision forum and posted all the Obama-Alinsky information. It stayed there for about two days and then Univision took it down.
Wait a minute.....this article comes out of the “Tehran Times”
Will it ever dawn upon the radical left that their high-sounding plans NEVER WORK???
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