WHERE OBAMA GOT INSPIRATION, AND HOPE.Barack Obama got his start as a community organizer in Chicago, saying it was "the best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School." And while he downplays his connections to ACORN, claiming he worked for churches, he was trained by (Saul) Alinsky's Industrial Areas Foundation and then spent years in the 1980s teaching the Alinsky method to others through several Alinsky offshoots such as Project Vote and Developing Communities Project in Chicago.
Over the campaign, Saul Alinsky's son Lee David Alinsky did not think Obama was giving his deceased father credit for his success. In a letter to the Boston Globe in August of this year, after Obama's open-stadium rally in Denver, the younger Alinsky wrote:
"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."
Saul Alinsky explained his community organizing tactics in his book Rules for Radicals published in 1971 which involved teaching a process of community organizing that combined hope and resentment and also baiting and ridiculing an opponent until he reacts. Was that the intention Obama had when he ridiculed Nancy Reagan falsely for holding seances during his first press conference after becoming president-elect?
Alinsky's method of organizing was to identify a class of so called victims and divide the community into the Have oppressors and the Have Not victims. Then he went on to make the Have Nots believe they are unjustly treated by the Haves by building resentment against the American social and economic system, using church congregations to mobilize street agitators, and lobbying government for higher taxes and big-spending welfare programs. The end goal was to have governmentt confiscate the wealth and power of the Haves and turn it over---redistribute it--- to the Have Nots. And the heads of government get to decide who are the Have and Have Not. That sounds strangely like socialism/communism.
Alinsky dedicated his book to none other than the fallen angel Lucifer, yes that Lucifer, whom he describes as "the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment (that would be God) and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom."
Wow, we don't have to wonder any longer what his religious beliefs are, do we?
Another Alinsky quote to note in relation to Mr. Obama: "Ego must be so all-pervading that the personality of the organizer is contagious, so that it converts the people from despair to defiance, creating a mass ego." Source.
I think we're in for some interesting times ahead.
Thanks for finding this. Some of Alinsky's quotes have been rattling around the back of my brain and I couldn't grab them. You have found the relevant ones that explain Obama clearly. Unfortunately.
ReplyDeleteOf all the boogeymen radicals that Obama supposedly had as associates in his distant past, I have yet to see where any are listed as potential advisors or cabinet appointees for his presidency.
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ReplyDeleteWell, that explains a lot. Thank you, Saul Alinsky, for the next four years. Combining the leftist illuminati experience of Saul Alinsky, Richard Daley, Rahm Emanuel, and the Clinton defense team.
Maybe I need some Pepto Bismol, too.
Quite frightening really. I have the inclination to believe that the election of Obama has emboldened many trouble makers!
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ReplyDeleteWould you believe I knew Saul Alinsky? Your quotes are accurate. He was trying to get people to stand up for themselves, and I believed that was necesary. Too many people were profiting from the plight of the poor. Alinsky called them pimps of the poor. Those pimps are still with us.
I was working as a social worker in Kansas City. (You had to be there). I really liked the man. I certainly did not understand him to be anti-American. I thought he was trying to make America work. Now I realize the American dream is built on individual liberty; individuals choosing to strive for excellence. But Alinsky was right in trying to get people to break their chains of dependency on cold-hearted pimps who ran the school systems, welfare systems, and businesses who profited from poverty (i.e. loan sharks).
Fascinating perspective, Bob. Thank you for sharing this about Saul. Gosh, we've all covered some territory over the years, haven't we!
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ReplyDeleteDo You have the list of the "Rules For Radicals, listed in Saul's book?"
Knowing them could help blunt any effort to emplement a much stronger central government in America, of which, I Am certainly not in favor.
Peace,
Carson in Beautiful Phoenix
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There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs—partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs…
ReplyDeleteThere is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
-Booker T. Washington
tsfiles, calling any other commenter a 'fool' is not acceptable. Stick to the issues if you want to be published here.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
The illuminati scared me before, but to now see the tactics so well laid-out. Wow! I would be ignorant to say that I do not have things to fear in the next four years
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