Posted on 05/14/2010 5:18:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
President Obama is fond of using ridicule to frustrate critics. He recently mocked Republicans for predicting "Armageddon" if health care reform passed. After signing the bill, he cracked that he looked around to "see if there were any asteroids falling," only to discover a nice day with "birds chirping."
But the former community organizer also knows that ridiculing the opposition is an effective tactic taught by the father of community organizing, Saul D. Alinsky — a socialist agitator from Chicago whose influence on Obama is deeper than commonly known.
In fact, the tactic is ripped right from the pages of "Rules for Radicals" (Vintage Books, New York, 1971), a how-to manual Alinsky wrote for coat-and-tie revolutionaries.
"Ridicule is man's most potent weapon," reads Rule No. 5. "It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage."
It's just one of 13 rules Alinsky coached his acolytes to follow to "take power away from the Haves." The Haves, represented foremost by corporate America, are "the enemy." They must be identified, singled out and targeted for attack — and the more personal the better, Alinsky advised, putting a special bull's-eye on banks.
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Obozo is a clown. Rule #5 Ridicule. Obozo is a Pantywaist Pissant Preschooler.
There are “X” number of times one can mock an enemy before said enemy walks up and shotguns the mocker in the face. It seems like Our Lord is putting a lot of faith in his SS-begleitkommando...
Everybody wants to be Jon Stewart. In another year, the snark will be so over. Too many college seniors graduated with no prospects, and it's the young who were the biggest cult followers of O.
And most surgeries end in “-ectomy”.
This malignant narcissist needs to be careful of ridicule because he is more worthy of it than his opponents.
Obama will not mock for long. If he wants to see plagues then he will see plagues.
They will get jobs in Obozo’s ever growing government and to them, all will be well.
Simply ridicule them better than they ridicule you. (Smile)
This little ploy may work well for his core voters. But the rest of us see it for what it really is ? One Giant Pile of Bulls*it !
Excellent point
Ask Obastard this: If it was soooooo important to get a health care bill passed whether the people wanted it or not, how many uninsured before the bill are insured today? Do all those Sam and Sally Sobstories he paraded around like political pawns now have health insurance? If it was so good for the peons, why didn’t you insist that EVERYONE, including yourself and Congress, be covered under the same plan?
And How about Those Big Ears.
He Hates it when people make fun of his Ears.
The radicals never stay in power long enough to realize one thing:
Ridicule doesn’t last forever. It loses its effectiveness with each occurence.
Alinsky, Gramsci, Goebbels, all ‘propagandists’ able to wordsmith issues.]
Regular Americans do not understand ideological warfare.
The fact that many of us here are tuned in to the disinformation, keeps us one step ahead.
We know the enemy, and knowing is half the battle.
Delivery is a key in effective ridicule. 0bama is trying to use ridicule, but how he does it comes across as arrogant and (to steal a liberal favorite) mean spirited. It just makes him look bad instead of making his opponents look bad.
These people have self genocided into impotency and abortion. Here comes the “surgery”, aka as the genocide of whoever is seen as too high of a standard.
It’s like those job postings where they do not want you because you are overqualified and cannot baby talk the illegals around you as they wish too and they want to keep it that way.
CLown? Perhaps. A wolf or a monkey has superior political saaviness than these utopian sesame street colored marble fantasying romanticizing gamers. They are extremely dangerous and murderous... the type killing each other in streets for having the wrong shoe size.
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