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Ever Wonder Where the Phrase, “Hope and Change” Came From?
Alinsky Defeater ^ | 4/3/12 | Alinsky Defeater

Posted on 04/03/2012 6:23:56 PM PDT by Nachum

On page 103 of Rules for Radicals is this quote from Alinsky,

The organizer’s job is to inseminate an invitation for himself, to agitate, introduce ideas, get people pregnant with hope and a desire for change and to identify you as the person most qualified for this purpose. [Emphasis added]

Is there anything inherently wrong with wanting people to have hope and to wish for change in their lives? Of course not, but that is not the issue. As is so often the case with Liberals, their original intentions are noble, but the results are often antithetical to those intentions.

Alinsky proffers this scenario in the context of helping a community organizer to gain acceptance and credibility “without invitation” in an area where he or she might otherwise be shunned. This is exactly the way in which then Senator Obama used his famous “Hope and Change” mantra. An unknown Senator who had spent most of his adult years rubbing shoulders with the type of radicals that most Americans would never, in the words of Sarah Palin, “pal around with” needed an “in” with the common folks.

We then, are not surprised that when Barack Obama finds himself in San Francisco, in the company of his fellow Liberal elites, that he would utter his now famous description of ordinary Americans in small towns in Pennsylvania. In case you’ve forgotten what he said when he thought no microphones were on, here it is:

(Excerpt) Read more at alinskydefeater.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alinsky; hopechange; phrase; rulesforradicals; whitakerchambers; witness
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1 posted on 04/03/2012 6:24:04 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

Just as I suspected; now I know.


2 posted on 04/03/2012 6:31:18 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (I'd vote for a "orange juice can", before 0bummer&HisRegimeFromHell, gets another 4yrs. Can-> later.)
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To: Nachum

Hitler sold the Germans the same ‘pig in a poke’.


3 posted on 04/03/2012 6:34:24 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Nachum

Obama names his first born Malia Ann Obama. MAO. Nuff said.


4 posted on 04/03/2012 6:40:14 PM PDT by isthisnickcool (Sharia? No thanks!)
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To: Nachum

It’s gone from Hope and Change to Hate and Bait


5 posted on 04/03/2012 6:49:19 PM PDT by CMailBag
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To: Nachum

Wow! Great find1 As our blunderer-in-chief Biden would say...it’s a BFD!


6 posted on 04/03/2012 6:58:05 PM PDT by Cookies4ever
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To: Nachum

The Chicago Communist Party:

http://encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/318.html


7 posted on 04/03/2012 7:12:37 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Nachum

8 posted on 04/03/2012 8:09:46 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Nachum

Rules for Radicals? Read Whitaker Chambers “Witness” Written before Rules for Radicals and it has All The COMMUNIST strategies that Obama has Used.


9 posted on 04/04/2012 3:58:17 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: ballplayer
Rules for Radicals? Read Whitaker Chambers “Witness” Written before Rules for Radicals and it has All The COMMUNIST strategies that Obama has Used.

That was an awesome book. I gave a copy to my niece in middle school. She is now a Navy officer.
10 posted on 04/04/2012 4:03:19 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: ballplayer

Seriously one of the best and most disturbing books I’ve ever read.

Should be a must read for everyone U.S. citizen.


11 posted on 04/04/2012 4:15:05 AM PDT by bonfire
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