The Alinsky Connection

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The shade and spirit of Saul Alinsky hovers over the lives of both Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama.

Here is an excerpt from the Wiki article on Alinsky.

In 1969, while a political science major at Wellesley College, Hillary Rodham chose to write her senior thesis on Alinsky's work, with Alinsky himself contributing his own time to help her.^[27][28] Although Rodham defended Alinksy's intentions in her thesis, she was critical of his methods and dogmatism.^[27][29] (Years later when she became First Lady, the thesis was not made publicly available by the school based upon a White House request.^[30])

According to biographer Sanford Horwitt, U.S. President Barack Obama was influenced by Alinsky and followed in his footsteps as a Chicago-based community organizer. Horwitt asserted that Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign was influenced by Alinsky's teachings.^[31] Alinksy's influence on Obama has been heavily emphasized by some of his detractors, such as Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Thomas Sugrue of Salon.com writes, "as with all conspiracy theories, the Alinsky-Obama link rests on a kernel of truth".^[26] For three years in the mid 80s, Obama worked for the Developing Communities Project, which was influenced by Alinsky's work, and he wrote an essay that was collected in a book memorializing Alinsky.^[26][32] Newt Gingrich repeatedly stated his opinion that Alinsky was a major influence on Obama during his 2012 presidential campaign, equating Alinsky with "European Socialism", although Alinsky was U.S.-born and was not a Socialist.^[33] Gingrich's campaign itself used tactics described by Alinsky's writing.^[34]

 

It is interesting how the Clinton's  kept Hillary's early Alinsky connection out of the public  record.

One of my oft repeated quips is that (old) Mayor Daley of Chicago and Saul Alinsky  conjugated and begat Barak Obama as their Spirit Child.