Pal #4

Obama's friend of the day: Saul Alinsky

Saul Alinsky is from Chicago and he was born in 1909. He is a former academic who turned radical socialist.

Saul Alinsky’s radicalism was expressed in his 1971 book, “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals.” In that book, Alinsky said, “Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins -- or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom -- Lucifer.” Yes that's right, he admires Satan.

Alinsky is a confirmed atheist who Barack has mentioned as being a mentor of his (as an aside, Hillary did her senior thesis on him too). He is a crazy leftist socialist who said in his book:

“There is another reason for working inside the system. Dostoyevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system…”

In other words, Alinsky didn't view America as a wonderful place where capitalism succeeds and rewards hard work. He wanted to create a revolution by making the "have nots" enraged by what the "haves" had achieved, in order to make the "have nots" seize power from the "haves". Alinsky thought America was flawed and must be knocked down, in order to be built back up in his image. He WANTED people to be miserable, frustrated, defeated and lost. I see a lot of this in Barack's speeches.

Alinsky is considered the father of community organizing. A few years after his death, some of his cronies hired Barack to be a community organizer and trained him in the "Alinsky school". Hmmmmmm. Barack and Michelle Obama have both quoted Alinsky in various speeches. Saul Alinsky's son was quoted as saying "I am proud to see my father's model for organizing is being applied successfully."