Posted on 01/23/2012 3:38:40 PM PST by Lazlo in PA
During a White House press briefing on Monday, Fox News’ Ed Henry asked Press Secretary Jay Carney if the White House displays a portrait of Saul Alinsky for its staff to look up to. Carney’s answer was less than direct, and would seem to hint that there just might be something to the Alinsky portrait rumors.
“I wonder if you could clear something up,” Henry began.
“Newt Gingrich keeps saying on the campaign trail that the President’s vision comes from Saul Alinsky, the community organizer. I haven’t heard you asked about him but… Is there some kind of portrait of him hanging up in the White House that people look up to or is this BS?”
“Look,” Carney said. “The President’s background as a community organizer is well documented in his own books. His experience in that field contributed to who he is today. But his experiences abroad also included alot of other areas in his life. So I’ll just leave it at that.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Obama has his lips and ears.
Are you suggesting Obama is an Alinsky love child? That might make him a natural-born citizen...
I keep saving these types of articles for people I know who voted for Obama, some of whom still support him. Glad to say I have helped to convert others. Of course, Obama, himself deserves the most credit for turning people against him. I love how he does that, LOL. This will be just another reason to make some wince even more.
“Obama learned his lesson well. I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.” —Letter from L. DAVID ALINSKY, son of Neo-Marxist Saul Alinsky
Obama helped fund ‘Alinsky Academy’: “The Woods Fund, a nonprofit on which Obama served as paid director from 1999 to December 2002, provided startup funding and later capital to the Midwest Academy.... Obama sat on the Woods Fund board alongside William Ayers, founder of the Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization.... ‘Midwest describes itself as ‘one of the nation’s oldest and best-known schools for community organizations, citizen organizations and individuals committed to progressive social change.’... Midwest teaches Alinsky tactics of community organizing.”
Hillary, Obama and the Cult of Alinsky: “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.... 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.
“Obama is also an Alinskyite.... 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.... 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.”
Opening page - Dedication
“Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history... the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom — Lucifer.”
Prologue
“The Revolutionary force today has two targets, moral as well as material. Its young protagonists are one moment reminiscent of the idealistic early Christians, yet they also urge violence and cry, ‘Burn the system down!’ They have no illusions about the system, but plenty of illusions about the way to change our world. It is to this point that I have written this book.”
1. The Purpose
In this book we are concerned with how to create mass organizations to seize power and give it to the people; to realize the democratic dream of equality, justice, peace.... “Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.’ This means revolution.” p.3
“Radicals must be resilient, adaptable to shifting political circumstances, and sensitive enough to the process of action and reaction to avoid being trapped by their own tactics and forced to travel a road not of their choosing.” p.6
“A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage — the political paradise of communism.” p.10
“The end is what you want, the means is how you get it. Whenever we think about social change, the question of means and ends arises. The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks only of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work. ... The real arena is corrupt and bloody.” p.24
“The means-and-ends moralists, constantly obsessed with the ethics of the means used by the Have-Nots against the Haves, should search themselves as to their real political position. In fact, they are passive — but real — allies of the Haves…. The most unethical of all means is the non-use of any means... The standards of judgment must be rooted in the whys and wherefores of life as it is lived, the world as it is, not our wished-for fantasy of the world as it should be....” pp.25-26
“The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means....” p.29
“It should be remembered that you can threaten the enemy and get away with it. You can insult and annoy him, but the one thing that is unforgivable and that is certain to get him to react is to laugh at him. This causes irrational anger. — P.134-135”
“I have on occasion remarked that I felt confident that I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday. — P.150”
Michelle Obama referred to these words during her Democratic National Convention speech:
“She said, ‘Barack stood up that day,’ talking about a visit to Chicago neighborhoods, ‘and spoke words that have stayed with me ever since. He talked about ‘The world as it is’ and ‘The world as it should be…’ And, ‘All of us driven by a simple belief that the world as it is just won’t do – that we have an obligation to, fight for the world as it should be.”
“’The organizer’s first job is to create the issues or problems,’ and ‘organizations must be based on many issues.’ The organizer ‘must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the community; fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression. He must search out controversy and issues, rather than avoid them, for unless there is controversy people are not concerned enough to act. . . . An organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent.’”
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm
“It should be remembered that you can threaten the enemy and get away with it. You can insult and annoy him, but the one thing that is unforgivable and that is certain to get him to react is to laugh at him. This causes irrational anger. — P.134-135”
“I have on occasion remarked that I felt confident that I could persuade a millionaire on a Friday to subsidize a revolution for Saturday out of which he would make a huge profit on Sunday even though he was certain to be executed on Monday. — P.150”
on the last page of a 1972 Playboy Interview with Saul D. Alinsky, he said:
ALINSKY: Sometimes it seems to me that the question people should ask is not “Is there life after death?” but “Is there life after birth?” I don’t know whether there’s anything after this or not. I haven’t seen the evidence one way or the other and I don’t think anybody else has either. But I do know that man’s obsession with the question comes out of his stubborn refusal to face up to his own mortality. Let’s say that if there is an afterlife, and I have anything to say about it, I will unreservedly choose to go to hell.
PLAYBOY: Why?
ALINSKY: Hell would be heaven for me. All my life I’ve been with the have-nots. Over here, if you’re a have-not, you’re short of dough. If you’re a have-not in hell, you’re short of virtue. Once I get into hell, I’ll start organizing the have-nots over there.
PLAYBOY: Why them?
ALINSKY: They’re my kind of people.
That would be a "yes".
Earlier this afternoon, CNN did a segment on “Who Is Saul Alinsky?”
They started out by asking the “Man On the Street” if they knew who he was, and course they didnt.
Following that was a brief whitewash. (Of course, we would nothing less!)
Obama and his regime ARE Alinsky.
Obama’s just a Chicago thug with shiny shoes.
Good find, Libloather. I think I remember that story too.
This odd, off-topic aside sounds very much like a veiled threat. Something on the order of, "I have a lot of dirt on a lot of congressmen who may be near and dear to Fox News, so maybe you're better off not pursuing this Alinsky thing."
No need to assume it. That was a definite YES!
But what really pisses me off about “journalists” is that rather than ask the question again they just let these conmen give a non-answer and don’t follow-up.
The reporter should have responded with something like: “Sir, you still haven’t answered my question. Is there a picture of Saul Alinsky hanging in the White House? Yes or no?”
These fuggin spineless asshats reporters have no b@lls or integrity. There is no such thing an MSM journalist. They’re all just propogandists.
Did they paint him as an innocent organizer?
“Genuine photo of the Obama White House library shelf.”
I haven’t seen this. Where is confirmation - how made etc?
“Genuine photo of the Obama White House library shelf.”
I haven’t seen this. Where is confirmation - how made etc?
That surprises me.
Not that the godless Marxist had a Mao ornament, but that he actually put up a CHRISTMAS tree.
I think it was an attack on Newt for continually bringing the Alinsky thing up on a regular basis. I think the WH is very upset that Obummers background is being brought up this election cycle unlike the pass the GOP gave him in ‘08 thanks to McLame.
Uhhh, I think you mean the WINTER HOLIDAY CELEBRATION TREE!
The fifth column is terrified of the American people learning who Saul Alinsky was and, more importantly, who his disciples are. That’s why everyone’s out to destroy Newt Gingrich — the only GOP candidate who even knows who Saul Alinsky was. They cannot allow Newt to enlighten the sheeple.
snicker...
I grew up in Illinois and still have lots of family in Chicago and downstate. I know this for a fact.
FYI:
A community organizer in Chicago is nothing more than a "bag man". He dispenses money to the various constituencies that support the corrupt Chicago administration.
We now have a version of that playing on the National stage using the U.S. taxpayers money to fill the bag for scams such as Solyndra, etc.
Shazaaaam!
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