Posted on 09/04/2008 5:36:21 PM PDT by Chet 99
Who pays a community organizer? And why??
I wanna run for president on a platform of “A New Flaggleblat.” If anyone asks me to define “flaggleblat,” I’ll insinuate that they’re a racist.
I can’t lose.
Bingo.
Wow ... you read that too? That book was as bad as Barack’s attempts at acting Presidential.
Thirteen years after Alinsky died, some of his former students hired Barack Obama to a $13,000 a year job as a community organizer in South Chicago.
Saul David Alinsky (January 30, 1909, Chicago, Illinois - June 12, 1972, Carmel, California) is generally considered the father of community organizing.
In Rules for Radicals (his final work, published one year before his death), he addressed the 1960s generation of radicals, outlining his views on organizing for mass power. The documentary, "The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy," claims that "Alinsky championed new ways to organize the poor and powerless that created a backyard revolution in cities across America."
In his Rules for Radicals, a book that Alinsky ironically dedicated to Lucifer, "the first radical" Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing.
Alinsky was a critic of a passive and ineffective mainstream liberalism. In Rules for Radicals, he argued that the most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired ends, and that an intermediate end for radicals should be democracy because of its relative ease to work within to achieve other ends of social justice.
Many important community and labor organizers came from the "Alinsky School," including Ed Chambers and Tom Gaudette. Fred Ross, who worked for Alinsky, was the principal mentor for Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
How about a bumpersticker:
"Vote McCain-Palin for President/VP 08 - - Obama for Community 'Organizer'!"
Obama said he assumes Palin "wants to be treated same way guys want to be treated, which means their records are under scrutinty. I've been through this for 19 months. She's been through it, what four days?"
Like Duhhhhh , Obama!
She was correct. As much as one dislikes Hillary, she was a known quantity and perfectly up-front about all her leftism, and it must really have angered her to see Obama come slipping out of the shadows and immediately be received with adulation.
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