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Originally Posted by Bucco
I made the point during the campaign that President Obama was very very enamored with him...
...This is ONE of the associates, NOT THE ONLY ONE, that bothered and bothers me about our current President
...I was always taught that you are known by your associations !!! People in public life sometimes cannot help sometimes having "questionable" associations, but a man in his mid 40's whose primary and most significant associations are radical and "questionable" are what scare me...!
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C'mon Bucco. Saul Alinsky died when Barack Obama was
eleven years old! At the time, young "Barry" was living with his grandmother in Hawai'i. What "association" could he possibly have had with Saul Alinsky?
If you're referring to Obama's embrace of the effective tactics developed by Alinsky in his
Rules For Radicals published in the 1930's (a quarter of a century before Obama was even born), President Obama is guilty. He used those tactics quite effectively in organizing the poor, mostly black residents in Chicago when he was a community organizer.
But again, I suggest you re-read
Rules For Radicals. It's pretty clear that almost all political candidates from both parties at almost every level embrace Alinsky's tactics. It's like the campaign manager for one of the presidential candidates replied when asked why they used so much negative campaigning..."Because it works", he answered. So many people seem to have adopted the tactics in
Rules For Radicals because it's pretty obvious that they work. President Obama is far from alone in that sense -- among politicians from all political parties and idealologies.