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OBAMA QUOTES SAUL ALINSKY IN ISRAEL
Of all the people that Obama could quote while speaking in the Holy Land he chose the radical Saul Alinsky. You know, the sixties Marxist that dedicated his book, "Rules for Radical's" to Lucifer? Beyond that, his arrogance was on display as usual, telling a nation who is supposed to be one of our greatest allies to "push" their government for change, reminiscent of the Arab Spring that has worked out so well for America and those who love freedom around the world.
WND
JERUSALEM – In his address in Jerusalem today, President Obama
channeled Saul Alinsky, citing the radical community organizer’s
defining mantra as he urged young Israelis to “create change” to nudge
their leadership to act.
Obama told a crowd of college students at Jerusalem’s main convention
center that Israel “has the wisdom to see the world as it is, but also
the courage to see the world as it should be.”
One of Alinsky’s major themes was working with the world as it “is” to turn it into the world as “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. He asserted radical change must be brought about by working
within a system instead of attacking it 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.
Obama related his Alinsky quote to a suggestion that “peace” begins
with the people and not just the leadership – a statement some may
relate to community organizing.
He further suggested Israelis do an end-run around the country’s leadership and “create the change that you want to see.”
The president said: “That is where peace begins – not just in the
plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people; not just in a carefully
designed process, but in the daily connections that take place among
those who live together in this land, and in this sacred city of
Jerusalem.”
He continued: “Speaking as a politician, I can promise you this:
Political leaders will not take risks if the people do not demand that
they do. You must create the change that you want to see.”
It’s not the first time Obama used the Alinsky phraseology of the world as it “is” versus how it “should be.”
In a May 2011 speech, Obama stated: “There must be no doubt that the
United States of America welcomes change that advances
self-determination and opportunity. 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.”
In an April 2009 talk to a London girl’s school, first lady Michelle
Obama 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.”
Alinsky’s ideology is not foreign to Obama. The politician started
his career as an Alinsky-style community organizer in Chicago and taught
the radical’s tactics at the University of Chicago.
WND was first to report
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 Camp Obama, a two-to-four day intensive course run
in conjunction with Obama’s campaign. It trained volunteers to become
activists to help Obama win the presidential election.
WND also reported
the Woods Fund, a nonprofit for which Obama served as a paid board
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 in 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 FrontPage Magazine 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 “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.”