http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/saulalinsky/ en-us Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:21:21 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031968/posts Red diaper baby Barack Obama's collectivist beliefs go way back. We dug up an enlightening old article, "What Makes Obama Run?" (by Hank De Zutter, Chicago Reader, Dec. 8, 1995) that offers more insight into what Obama, the Democrats' presumptive presidential candidate, thinks about America and traditional American values. The short answer: not much. In it Obama, at that time a candidate for the Illinois Senate, criticizes individualism as what intellectual John Ralston Saul has called the cult of the Hero: "In America," Obama says, "we have this strong bias toward individual action. You know, we idolize the John Wayne... Capital Research Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031968/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:21:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025179/posts This fascinating New Republic story about Barack Obama’s days as a community organizer came out over a year ago: Chicago pastors still remember Obama making the rounds of local churches and conducting interviews—in organizing lingo, "one-on-ones"—where he would probe for self-interest. The Reverend Alvin Love, the Baptist minister of a modest brick church amid the clapboard bungalows of the South Side, was one of Obama's first one-on-ones. During a recent visit to his church, Love told me, "I remember he said this to me: There ought to be some way for us to help you meet your self-interest while at... The Volokh Conspiracy http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2025179/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 07:00:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017697/posts "We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK," Obama said. From this story: WASHINGTON (AFP) — Barack Obama set his sights on November's general election Saturday as he campaigned in Oregon, where he hopes to declare victory in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.Obama has said Tuesday's primaries in Oregon and Kentucky could mark the end of his drawn-out battle with rival Hillary Clinton, and his campaign pressed home that message by... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017697/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2008 17:30:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013208/posts Americans are well acquainted with presidential candidate Barack Obama’s legendary pledges to bring “change” to America’s political and social landscape. (For example, see here and here and here.) Indeed, “Change We Can Believe In” is the slogan that adorns the homepage of his campaign website and so many of the placards displayed by the supporters who attend his speaking engagements. His Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, is also well practiced at issuing calls for change. Her “Change and Experience” ad campaign was but an outgrowth of her 1993 declaration, as First Lady, that “remolding society is one of the great challenges... Point Of View http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013208/posts#comment Thu, 8 May 2008 19:59:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011375/posts  When Hillary and Obama speak of “change,” they mean the complete remaking of society via the radical, subversive methods of Saul Alinsky.  Democrats’ Platform for Revolution   By John Perazzo FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, May 05, 2008 Americans are well acquainted with presidential candidate Barack Obama’s legendary pledges to bring “change” to America’s political and social landscape. (For example, see here and here and here.) Indeed, “Change We Can Believe In” is the slogan that adorns the homepage of his campaign website and so many of the placards displayed by the supporters who attend his speaking engagements. His Democratic rival, Hillary... FrontPage Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2011375/posts#comment Mon, 5 May 2008 12:10:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990971/posts Maybe, just maybe, it’s now worth at least asking whether Hillary Clinton might wind up as the Democratic candidate for vice president. When the chatter about a Democratic “dream ticket” began last year, it was easy to dismiss. Either Clinton or Obama would win a clear victory in the primaries and, after what inevitably would be a contentious campaign, each would want as little to do with the other as possible. Clinton, if she emerged victorious, would instead choose some kind of national security graybeard to her political right, a retired general perhaps, or maybe even a Republican. Likewise, Obama... The New York Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990971/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:47:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990521/posts WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Barack Obama's speech last week, hastily prepared to extinguish the firestorm over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, won critical praise for style and substance but failed politically. By elevating the question of race in America, the front-running Democratic presidential candidate has deepened the dilemma created by his campaign's success against the party establishment's anointed choice, Hillary Clinton. In rejecting the racist views of his longtime spiritual mentor but not disowning him, Obama has unwittingly enhanced his image as the African-American candidate -- not just a remarkable candidate who happens to be black. That poses a racial dilemma for... Real Clear Politics http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990521/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 09:33:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987291/posts This is the idol that both Barack Obama --and-- Hillary Clinton both look up to! If you want to see the original just type the word "Lucifer" into Amazon's search window--GGG “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.” --Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, 1971 Amazon.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987291/posts#comment Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:05:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982341/posts The improvised explosive device went off at approximately 3:45 a.m., shattering glass and twisting the building's metal frame. Some will dismiss this as just another attack on our troops in Iraq or Afghanistan. But, the attack didn't take place in the Middle East – the attack against our troops took place here on American soil. The bombing of the military recruiting center located at Times Square in New York City is still under investigation. Police report a hooded individual leaving the scene on a bike just prior to the bomb's explosion. Eight Democratic politicians received letters providing a warning of... World Net Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1982341/posts#comment Sat, 8 Mar 2008 06:17:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981715/posts You get the feeling Michelle Obama is never going to be boring to cover. (See here, here, here and here.) Hot Air and JammieWearingFool already noted the most eye-opening comment from Mrs. Obama... Obama begins with a broad assessment of life in America in 2008, and life is not good: we’re a divided country, we’re a country that is “just downright mean,” we are “guided by fear,” we’re a nation of cynics, sloths, and complacents. “We have become a nation of struggling folks who are barely making it every day,” she said, as heads bobbed in the pews. “Folks are... The National Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981715/posts#comment Fri, 7 Mar 2008 02:52:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977524/posts Star Jones Reynolds has never been one to mince words. It's no wonder that when Bill O'Reilly's most recent controversial (see also: racist) comments about Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic frontrunner Barack Obama, were discovered by Media Matters, the TruTV legal analyst was infuriated! O'Reilly, the curmudgeon host of Fox News Channel's 'The O'Reilly Factor,' was talking to a caller that was angry that Obama had said on C-Span that "for the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country." The 58-year-old television commentator, who privately settled a sexual harassment lawsuit against him in 2004, responded... AOL Black Voices http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1977524/posts#comment Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:49:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975815/posts Even before Sen. Barack Obama won his ninth straight contest against Sen. Hillary Clinton, in Wisconsin last Tuesday, wise old heads in the Democratic Party were asking this question: Who will tell her that it's over, that she cannot win the presidential nomination and that the sooner she leaves the race, the more it will improve the party's chances of defeating Sen. John McCain in November? In an ideal though unattainable world, Clinton would have dropped out when it became clear even before Wisconsin that she could not be nominated. The nightmare scenario was that she would win in Wisconsin,... Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1975815/posts#comment Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:24:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972236/posts Most Americans never heard of Saul Alinsky. Yet his shadow darkens our coming election. Democrat frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both worship at the altar of Alinskyism. In a 1971 book called Rules for Radicals, Alinsky scolded the Sixties Left for scaring off potential converts in Middle America. True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as churches, unions and political parties. In his native Chicago, Alinsky courted power... Tehran Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972236/posts#comment Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:52:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956969/posts Hillary Clinton said that if she became president, the federal government would take a more active role in the economy, in an effort to address what she said were the excesses of the market and the Bush administration. She told the New York Times she would put her emphasis on issues like inequality and the role of institutions like government, rather than market forces, in addressing them. She said that economic excesses -- including executive-pay packages she characterized as often "offensive" and "wrong" and a tax code that had become "so far out of whack" in favoring the wealthy --... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956969/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jan 2008 07:14:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955814/posts If you want to know what a Hillary Clinton Administration would be like, her known history is a pretty good indicator. We know a lot bout the woman who now stands a good chance to become the first radical Leftist President of the United States. As Hillary's long-hidden Wellesley college thesis states: "A Radical is one who advocates sweeping changes in existing laws and methods of government. These proposed changes are aimed at the roots of political problems which in Marxian terms are the attitudes and behaviors of men." (P 10)... ... While Hillary's father was a fervently anti-Communist Goldwater... http://www.americanthinker.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1955814/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:22:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956145/posts LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) -- Senator Barack Obama, vying for the Democratic presidential candidacy, vowed to change bankruptcy laws and cap interest rates during his campaign tour in Southern California, the Los Angeles Times reported Thursday. During what his campaign dubbed a "Roundtable on Economic Opportunity" there, Obama called for an exemption in the 2005 bankruptcy bill for people who can persuade a bankruptcy court that they filed for bankruptcy because of debts caused by medical expenses. His proposal also includes extending the 36-percent limit on payday loans to military members to all Americans; encouraging banks, credit unions and... Xinhau News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956145/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:34:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934207/posts by Richard Lawrence Poe Monday, December 3, 2007 Permanent LinkPast Columns HILLARY CLINTON is America’s leading gun-hater. This is no secret. Her “F” rating from the National Rifle Association merely confirms the obvious. More perplexing is why she hates guns. The explanation may lie in the teachings of Hillary's one-time political mentor Saul Alinsky. As noted in last week’s column, Alinsky was a radical organizer who got his start building militant community groups in Chicago slums during the 1930s. Young Hillary met him through a leftwing church group in high school. She wrote her senior thesis about Alinsky at... Poe.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934207/posts#comment Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:27:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930836/posts by Richard Lawrence Poe Monday, November 26, 2007 Permanent LinkMore Columns MOST AMERICANS never heard of Saul Alinsky. Yet his shadow darkens our coming election. Democrat frontrunners Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama both worship at the altar of Alinskyism. In a 1971 book called Rules for Radicals, Alinsky scolded the Sixties Left for scaring off potential converts in Middle America. True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within. Alinsky viewed revolution as a slow, patient process. The trick was to penetrate existing institutions such as... Poe.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1930836/posts#comment Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:23:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926736/posts Hillary Thesis "Wellesley College, “There is Only the Fight.” It praises the work of radical activist Saul Alinsky, a man who epitomized a self-interested no-holds barred campaign style that Hillary has emulated in later years. Clinton’s savvy-but-ruthless politics, including the “politics of personal destruction” she so often condemns but more often practices, seem rooted in Alinsky’s famous rules for radicals." Quote from Amanda B. Carpenter What leftist Saul Alinsky rules for radicals did Hillary use from her Thesis in yesterdays Las Vegas debate? Here are Alinsky's Rules for Radicals Rule 1: Power is not only what you have, but what... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1926736/posts#comment Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:53:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883496/posts Democratic presidential candidates argued Saturday night that organized labor is an essential part of the nation's economy whose troubles mirror the deterioration of the middle class way of life. "The only way to reinvigorate the middle class is to reinvigorate the labor movement," Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware told several hundred union members at a labor forum in eastern Iowa. ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1883496/posts#comment Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:05:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880815/posts That's the way Hillary and her hero Saul Alinsky viewed liberals. It was the same way the Old Left – the Communist Party – viewed liberals. Hillary quoted Alinsky in her thesis as explaining the difference between a liberal and a radical: "The liberal refuses to fight for the goals he professes." I'm sure Hillary still sees herself today as a "radical." But she could never use that term and remain a viable politician. So she has adopted another term – "progressive" – which means the same thing to those in the know. This is the favored term even today... Worldnetdaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1880815/posts#comment Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:23:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795997/posts HILLARY DOES SELMA (phony drawl 'n Saul, y'all)missus clinton's magically appearing thesis actuated 1 (details in part 2, coming soon) by Mia T, 3.06.07  "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous g-dropping. (Shades of Selma...)] hillary clinton Martin Luther King Day Monday, January 16, 2006 Canaan Baptist Church of Christ Harlem, New York City   "It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1795997/posts#comment Tue, 6 Mar 2007 13:51:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770697/posts I'm in. And I'm in to win. Today I am announcing that I will form an exploratory committee to run for president. And I want you to join me not just for the campaign but for a conversation about the future of our country -- about the bold but practical changes we need to overcome six years of Bush administration failures. Hillary Clinton.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770697/posts#comment Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:40:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420684/posts Alinsky's Rules for Radicals By Craig Miyamoto, APR, Fellow PRSA (This is an expanded version of the 2000 Third Quarter issue of Public Relations Strategies, a quarterly publication of Miyamoto Strategic Counsel) To paraphrase some sage advice, "keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer." If your business or organization ever becomes a target of radical activists, it will be extremely helpful to know what strategies of attack will used against you. Short of having spies infiltrate their organization - a practice that is sure to be found out and exposed to your discredit - it would help to study... STRATEGIC PUBLIC RELATIONS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420684/posts#comment Sat, 11 Jun 2005 01:07:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1414799/posts Bill Clinton may be an honorary member of the Bush family, but that hasn't tempered criticism from his senator-wife one bit. In her latest email to prospective donors, Hillary blasts Bush as a power-mad politician whose policies are "wrong for America." "What I see happening in Washington is a concerted effort by the Administration and the leadership in Congress to really create absolute power," she complained. Hillary warns that Republicans are trying to "remake America in their image." "[They're] reversing the progress we have made as a country, not just undoing the achievements of the Clinton Administration, but taking us... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1414799/posts#comment Thu, 2 Jun 2005 01:18:45 GMT