Is Obama Following Saul Alinski's Rules For Radicals?

[wal49]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals

[Wymer]

No. How many times are you going to ask this?   TurboB 17 months ago

[Blithe]

Who is Saul Alynski or however its spelled. I never heard of the guy?   Max20characters 17 months ago

[berwin]

>Obama actually knew Alinsky. Alinsky held a fund raiser in his house for Obama. Rock, If you're going to make statements like the one I've copied and pasted into this reply, you really need to do some research and use ROCK solid evidence.Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961. Saul Alinsky died on June 12, 1972, when Barack Obama was 10 years old. "Saul David Alinsky(January 30, 1909 ? June 12, 1972) was an American community organizer and writer. He is generally considered to be the founder of modern community organizing, and has been compared to Thomas Paine as being "one of the great American leaders of the nonsocialist left."[4] He is often noted for his book Rules for Radicals."   *Lin* 17 months ago http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/askville/435748_answers/1345601216414_52859210151163842411125103603910n.jpg

[Aelfdene]

The President has a fish for a mate? The term is soul-mate not sole-mate. LOL_____________________________________Bill Maher: 'Who the F is Saul Alinsky?' and Who is This 'Barack X' Republicans Are Running Against?As you know, "liberals" are doing little more than using their well-worn "Alinksy Tactics" to fight against freedom in order to bring communism to the United States of America. That said, the fact is, nobody other than Rightwing fantasists and their gullible stooges seem to know who the hell this Saul Alinsky guy actually is!I know I had no clue about him until I finally looked him up after a dozen or so times of being accused of using his "tactics" by various wingnuts(usually Breitbart cultists or brainwashed, incurious Fox "News" zombies).It seems Bill Maher had a similar reaction to mine, as seen on Friday night's Real Time on HBO. More to the point, Maher's observations about the Republican campaign against Obama, pretty much mirrored mine, as I discussed in my analysis of last week's State of the Union Speech and in other venues where I've spoken about this lately. Specifically, the charge that Republicans can't defeat the actual Barack Obama on the merits, for a whole bunch of reasons, so they've decided instead to run against a "completely fictional President"."His name is Barack X and he's an Islamo-Socialist revolutionary who's coming for your guns, raising your taxes, slashing the military, apologizing to other countries and taking his cues from Europe --- or worse yet, Saul Alinksy!"Maher went on to explain how Obama has done anything but the phony charges used against him, and then went on to compare those complaints with Democrats' complaints about Bush."Say what you will about the Left's hatred of Bush," said Maher, "at least we were hating on the real guy. We didn't invent a boogey-man who tanked the economy, took us to war on false pretenses and tortured prisoners. That was the actual guy!"   Max20characters 17 months ago

[Clyfland]

I do believe that Obama is a communist but I think he goes by his own set of rules.   dww25921 17 months ago

[Adriyel]

Are you not wearing your tinfoil hat today? It's weird that you're studying Alinksy's rules, and think that the President is talking to members of Askville. You might want to mention these symptoms to your doctor - or tell your parents so they can let the doctor know.   @Goldie 17 months ago

[Darsy]

BTW, Rock, you didn't even read the link you posted. If you had, you would have seen the following in the first sentence of the first paragraph:"Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals is the last book written by community organizer Saul D. Alinsky, published in 1971 shortly before his death. "NOTE: "published in 1971 shortly before his death."   *Lin* 17 months ago http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals

[Tyeson]

This is one reason why he donated a mil to Obama. Why would he favor a bunch of manipulative liars.   Max20characters 17 months ago

[Lendall]

You ARE my sole-mate Rock, a right-eyed flatfish.   Max20characters 17 months ago