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TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LAND
Did Obama quote Alinsky in Mideast policy address?
Speech reflects main theme of 'Rules for Radicals' book dedicated to Lucifer
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Posted: May 22, 2011
7:10 pm Eastern
By Aaron Klein
C 2011 WND
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Saul Alinsky
JERUSALEM - In his major address on the Middle East last week, did President
Obama quote from the centerpiece of radical community organizer Saul
Alinsky's defining work?
While hailing the Arab uprisings sweeping the Middle East and North Africa,
Obama laid out his foreign policy using terminology strikingly similar to
Alinsky's mantra.
"There must be no doubt that the United States of America welcomes change
that advances self-determination and opportunity," Obama stated. "Yes, there
will be perils that accompany this moment of promise. But after decades of
accepting the world as it is in the region, we have a chance to pursue the
world as it should be."
One of Alinsky's major themes was contrasting how the world "is" and how "it
should be."
In his defining work, "Rules for Radicals," which he dedicated to "the first
rebel," Lucifer, Alinsky used those words to lay out his main agenda - that
radical change must be brought about by working within a system instead of
attacking a system from the outside.
"It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to
what we think it should be. That means working in the system," wrote
Alinsky.
This is not the first time Obama used that phraseology.
In an April 2009 talk to a London girl's school, the First Lady recalled
that, on her first date with Barack Obama, he took her to a "community
meeting" and taught her about the world "as it is" and "as it should be."
"As he talked to the residents in that community center, he talked about two
concepts," she stated. "He talked about 'the world as it is' and 'the world
as it should be.' And I talked about this throughout the entire campaign."
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Alinsky's ideology is not foreign to Obama. The politician started his
career as an Alinsky-style community organizer in Chicago.
WND first reported
<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=131465> the
executive director of an activist organization that taught Alinsky's tactics
of direct action, confrontation and intimidation was part of the team that
developed volunteers for President Obama's 2008 campaign.
Jackie Kendall, executive director of the Midwest Academy, was on the team
that developed and delivered the first Camp Obama training for volunteers
aiding Obama's campaign through the 2008 Iowa Caucuses.
Camp Obama was a two-to-four day intensive course run in conjunction with
Obama's campaign aimed at training volunteers to become activists to help
Obama win the presidential election.
WND also reported
<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=129361> The
Woods Fund, a nonprofit on which Obama served as paid director from 1999 to
December 2002, provided capital to the Midwest Academy.
Obama sat on the Woods Fund board alongside William Ayers, founder of the
Weather Underground domestic terrorist organization.
Also, in 1998, Obama participated on a panel discussion praising Alinsky
alongside Midwest Academy's founder Heather Booth, an organizer and
dedicated disciple of Alinsky.
The panel discussion following the opening performance in Chicago of the
play "The Love Song of Saul Alinsky," a work described by the Chicago
Sun-Times as "bringing to life one of America's greatest community
organizers."
Obama participated in the discussion alongside other Alinskyites, including
Booth, political analyst Aaron Freeman, Don Turner of the Chicago Federation
of Labor and Northwestern University history professor Charles Paine.
"Alinsky had so much fire burning within," stated local actor Gary Houston,
who portrayed Alinsky in the play. "There was a lot of complexity to him.
Yet he was a really cool character."
In a letter to the editor of the Boston Globe, Alinsky's son praised Obama
for stirring up the masses at the 2008 Democratic National Convention "Saul
Alinsky style," saying, "Obama learned his lesson well."
The letter, signed L. David Alinsky, closed with, "I am proud to see that my
father's model for organizing is being applied successfully."
'Communist fellow traveler'
Former 1960s radical and FrontPageMagazine Editor David Horowitz describes
Alinsky as the "communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the
dual political tactics of confrontation and infiltration that characterized
the 1960s and have remained central to all subsequent revolutionary
movements in the United States."
Horowitz writes in his 2009 pamphlet
<http://frontpagemag.com/2009/10/30/barack-obamas-rules-for-revolution-the-a
linsky-model-by-david-horowitz/> "Barack Obama's Rules for Revolution. The
Alinsky Model": "The strategy of working within the system until you can
accumulate enough power to destroy it was what '60s radicals called 'boring
from within.' . Like termites, they set about to eat away at the foundations
of the building in expectation that one day they could cause it to
collapse."
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