[Baynative]

It's been a while since I read "Rules", but I have it packed away somewhere. What I remember about is how boringly redundant it got (I don't even think I finished it) and how it was about hating and wanting to overturn everything with no real purpose being stated about what would follow.

Obama comes across exactly the way I pictured Alinsky, a rebel without out a pause organizing for the sake of organizing. It seems to be little more than identifying disgruntled and jealous people with little self esteem and telling them, "I'm with you", in order to gain power.

It reminds me of the "Wild One" where the girl asks Marlon Brando what he's rebelling against and he says, "What da ya got?"

[Disambiguator]

It's been a while since I read "Rules", but I have it packed away somewhere. What I remember about is how boringly redundant it got (I don't even think I finished it) and how it was about hating and wanting to overturn everything with no real purpose being stated about what would follow.

That was my experience, too. I have a copy, and I only got about halfway through it - I couldn't take any more (it was like watching TV and losing IQ points by the minute).

[chesley]

I read it when I was about 20 and was still shockable.

It was the most disgusting thing that I ever read, and still is.

Frankly, I'm glad I read it, as I recognized the radicals at my own school in it, and it cemented a lifelong enmity to the Left.