Alinsky Rules Return For 0_bama
Politics: The hippie horde attempting to mob and "occupy" Wall Street this week has a method to its madness. It's all about getting p_resident 0_bama re-elected by employing classic Alinskyite tactics.
At first glance, the latest protests staged by left-wing rent-a-mobs in New York, Washington, Los Angeles and elsewhere don't look terribly different from the World Trade Organization and global debt-amnesty spectaculars of a decade ago. Radicals swarm against some hated totem, chant, break a few Starbucks windows and leave scads of garbage for someone else to clean up.
But the "Occupy Wall Street" mob that shut down the Brooklyn Bridge last weekend and drew 700 arrests bears all the earmarks of a professional political machine effort to keep 0_bama in the White House.
Alinsky's rules for radicals: