Originally Posted by Taltarzac725

Ayn Rand has probably been dead 30 years or so. Never saw any real worth to her ideas when I read her fiction books. I read Shakespeare within the last ten days or so. His work appeared in the London Olympics because he has all those sophisticated ideas you find in deep philosophical works even though I doubt if Shakespeare read very much Plato or Aristotle.

I see nothing wrong with Alinsky. He looks like a Marxist of some sort. So what if a young Obama read some Marx and followed the teachings of a man on how to do community activism.

The problem with Mitt Romney's pick of Paul Ryan is that Ryan has embraced an author--Ayn Rand-- whose very values are the exact opposite of those you find in Reagan's Compassionate Conservatism as well as those you find in the Religious Right.

Many of the values of helping the poor you see in the work of Marx and neo-Marxists like Alinsky. I doubt if many Democrats have any kind of problem with Barack Obama and Alinsky.