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Saul Alinsky - Maggot - 06-12-2013
Looking through the common core teaching standards I came across this as I was researching the questions on the standardized tests.
Biographer Sanford Horwitt has claimed that U.S. President Barack Obama was influenced by Alinsky and followed in his footsteps as a Chicago-based community organizer. Horwitt furthermore has asserted that Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign was influenced by Alinsky's teachings.[22]
Adam Brandon, a spokesman for the conservative non-profit organization FreedomWorks, which is one of several groups involved in organizing Tea Party protests, says the group gives Alinsky's Rules for Radicals to its top leadership members. A shortened guide called Rules for Patriots is distributed to its entire network. In a January 2012 story that appeared in The Wall Street Journal, citing the organization's tactic of sending activists to town-hall meetings, Brandon explained, "his tactics when it comes to grass-roots organizing are incredibly effective." Former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey also gives copies of Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals to Tea Party leaders.[
RE: Saul Alinsky - HairOfTheDog - 06-12-2013
I came upon a Dick Armey once while cruising around on-line; all standing at attention.
I closed my eyes and got the hell outta there pronto. Really.
RE: Saul Alinsky - Maggot - 06-12-2013
All organizations become corrupt when the membership becomes large, almost as if humans are genetically geared towards selfishness at some point once a leader gets enough followers. I call it the "larger than life itself syndrome"
RE: Saul Alinsky - HairOfTheDog - 06-12-2013
That can't be true, Maggot.
Just look at the Catholic Church, Labor Unions, the coalition of Mortgage Brokers, GlaxoSmithKline.
Shit...
You may have a point.
RE: Saul Alinsky - Cynical Ninja - 06-13-2013
Yeah, and Ron Paul is a freemason.
Go figure.