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Originally Posted by Guest
Why is it that the right wingers so love to use Alinksy in their posts? Has not the right wing just as often used exactly those tactics? Personalize the issues, keep up the pressure etc. How many Benghazi investigations so far? Found that birth certificate in Kenya yet?
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I think that is pretty easy.
Most, if not an overwhelmingly large percentage of politicians and political science students read his works,
Difference we have a President who actually TAUGHT his methods and is considered an expert.
And we have a presidential candidate, Ms Clinton, who wrote her senior thesis on Alinsky, and then subsequently had that thesis sealed and it still is. In addition, she had quite a lengthy correspondence with him.
"David Alinsky, the son of Neo-Marxist Saul Alinsky wrote in a letter: “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.""
Obamanism and Alinskynism - Blogs - Jerusalem Post
"But what happens when Machiavelli’s Prince reads and employs “Rules for Radicals”? In 2009 President Obama’s friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett was asked on CNN about media bias, particularly at Fox News, and she responded: “What the administration has said very clearly is that we’re going to speak truth to power.” I remember thinking: “Wait a minute, you’re the White House. You are the power.”
The Alinsky Way of Governing - WSJ