Obama and Democrats: The Alinsky Rulers
This was going to be in yesterday's daily outrage but it got too big.
The Alinsky Administration, Today, reading Rules for Radicals is illuminating and worrisome.
"Barack Obama never met Saul Alinsky, but the radical organizer’s thought helps explain a great deal about how the president operates.
"Ryan Lizza wrote a 6,500-word piece on Alinsky’s influence on Obama for The New Republic, noting, 'On his campaign website, one can find a photo of Obama in a classroom teaching students Alinskian methods. He stands in front of a blackboard on which he has written ‘Relationships Built on Self Interest,’"
I haven't read that piece, linked in this article, but I'm going to make a point of it. I looked up to what that refers. How anyone can deny Obama is a child of Alinsky after this, or argue that "radical" is an unfair label, I don't know.
Here is the picture from OBAMA'S web site
Here is my backup in case that link dies
Note the headings. "Power Analysis" "Relationships built on self interest"
This link is from Wikipedia on Saul Alinsky: "Alinsky came up with the idea of power analysis, which looks at relationships built on self-interest between corporations, banks and utilities."
That photo from his campaign web site shows him teaching Alinsky's teachings. Candidates don't pick things like that at random. This ties him directly to Alinsky, granting anyone the right to label Obama with the same labels valid for Alinsky. Back to the article...
"Obama’s defenders would no doubt insist this is a reflection of his pragmatism, his willingness to eschew ideology to focus on what solutions work best. [...] Obama is a pragmatist, but a pragmatist as understood by Alinsky: One who applies pragmatism to achieving and keeping power.
One of Alinsky’s first lessons is: 'Radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events.' Setting aside the Right’s habitual complaint about the pliant liberal media, Obama has dominated the news by unveiling a new initiative or giving a major speech on almost every weekday of his presidency."
"The constant parade of events large and small ensures that whenever unpleasant news arises and overtakes the desired message [...] it leads the news for only a day."
"When Obama announced a paltry $100 million in budget cuts [...] he clearly understood that the public processes these numbers very differently from the way budget wonks do. Alinsky wrote: 'The moment one gets into the area of $25 million and above, let alone a billion, the listener is completely out of touch, no longer really interested,'"
"Alinsky sneered at those who would accept defeat rather than break their principles [...] He assured his students that no one would remember their flip-flops, scoffing, 'The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.' If you win, no one really cares how you did it."
"Moderates thought they were electing a moderate; liberals thought they were electing a liberal. Both camps were wrong. Ideology does not have the final say in Obama’s decision-making; an Alinskyite’s core principle is to take any action that expands his power and to avoid any action that risks his power.
As conservatives size up their new foe, they ought to remember: It’s not about liberalism. It’s about power. Obama will jettison anything that costs him power, and do anything that enhances it "
"There are many wonderful Democrats in this world, but evidence suggests that rising in that party’s political hierarchy requires some adoption of a variation of the Alinsky philosophy: Power comes first."
I disagree with the article on one point. Obama will do anything, literally anything, to accumulate more power. The author isn't wrong. But he will do all this so that he may pursue a radical Modern Liberal statist agenda, as his first few months have proved to any honest person. Anyone who laughs when I call him a radical can look at that picture and shove it. He is a child of Alinsky. That should terrify any honest American who loves this country.
The Alinsky Administration, Today, reading Rules for Radicals is illuminating and worrisome.
"Barack Obama never met Saul Alinsky, but the radical organizer’s thought helps explain a great deal about how the president operates.
"Ryan Lizza wrote a 6,500-word piece on Alinsky’s influence on Obama for The New Republic, noting, 'On his campaign website, one can find a photo of Obama in a classroom teaching students Alinskian methods. He stands in front of a blackboard on which he has written ‘Relationships Built on Self Interest,’"
I haven't read that piece, linked in this article, but I'm going to make a point of it. I looked up to what that refers. How anyone can deny Obama is a child of Alinsky after this, or argue that "radical" is an unfair label, I don't know.
Here is the picture from OBAMA'S web site
Here is my backup in case that link dies
Note the headings. "Power Analysis" "Relationships built on self interest"
This link is from Wikipedia on Saul Alinsky: "Alinsky came up with the idea of power analysis, which looks at relationships built on self-interest between corporations, banks and utilities."
That photo from his campaign web site shows him teaching Alinsky's teachings. Candidates don't pick things like that at random. This ties him directly to Alinsky, granting anyone the right to label Obama with the same labels valid for Alinsky. Back to the article...
"Obama’s defenders would no doubt insist this is a reflection of his pragmatism, his willingness to eschew ideology to focus on what solutions work best. [...] Obama is a pragmatist, but a pragmatist as understood by Alinsky: One who applies pragmatism to achieving and keeping power.
One of Alinsky’s first lessons is: 'Radicals must have a degree of control over the flow of events.' Setting aside the Right’s habitual complaint about the pliant liberal media, Obama has dominated the news by unveiling a new initiative or giving a major speech on almost every weekday of his presidency."
"The constant parade of events large and small ensures that whenever unpleasant news arises and overtakes the desired message [...] it leads the news for only a day."
"When Obama announced a paltry $100 million in budget cuts [...] he clearly understood that the public processes these numbers very differently from the way budget wonks do. Alinsky wrote: 'The moment one gets into the area of $25 million and above, let alone a billion, the listener is completely out of touch, no longer really interested,'"
"Alinsky sneered at those who would accept defeat rather than break their principles [...] He assured his students that no one would remember their flip-flops, scoffing, 'The judgment of history leans heavily on the outcome of success or failure; it spells the difference between the traitor and the patriotic hero. There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father.' If you win, no one really cares how you did it."
"Moderates thought they were electing a moderate; liberals thought they were electing a liberal. Both camps were wrong. Ideology does not have the final say in Obama’s decision-making; an Alinskyite’s core principle is to take any action that expands his power and to avoid any action that risks his power.
As conservatives size up their new foe, they ought to remember: It’s not about liberalism. It’s about power. Obama will jettison anything that costs him power, and do anything that enhances it "
"There are many wonderful Democrats in this world, but evidence suggests that rising in that party’s political hierarchy requires some adoption of a variation of the Alinsky philosophy: Power comes first."
I disagree with the article on one point. Obama will do anything, literally anything, to accumulate more power. The author isn't wrong. But he will do all this so that he may pursue a radical Modern Liberal statist agenda, as his first few months have proved to any honest person. Anyone who laughs when I call him a radical can look at that picture and shove it. He is a child of Alinsky. That should terrify any honest American who loves this country.