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jimmyx
for all you people that voted for Obama, might as well leave this thread, this are just one of the hundreds of "right-wingers bash Obama threads"...they like to talk among themselves, and they simply don't want to here from anyone else.
jimmyx
for all you people that voted for Obama, might as well leave this thread, this are just one of the hundreds of "right-wingers bash Obama threads"...they like to talk among themselves, and they simply don't want to here from anyone else.
Stop! Just stop making excuses for this liar. He sold all of us many lines of BS. Just stop!
bonecrusher321
reply to post by jude11
There is absolutely nothing about this that has anything to do with the current administration. These activities have been ongoing well prior to Obama, some for decades. The White House has zero to do with the creation, approval, implementation or termination of collection methods, policies and procedures.
xuenchen
jimmyx
for all you people that voted for Obama, might as well leave this thread, this are just one of the hundreds of "right-wingers bash Obama threads"...they like to talk among themselves, and they simply don't want to here from anyone else.
Well I for one, am all ears.
I'll listen to anything reasonable.
[waiting for people who voted for Obama and no longer support]
[waiting for Obama voters who still support]
How has Obama increased the rights of the majority of citizens?
jimmyx
xuenchen
jimmyx
for all you people that voted for Obama, might as well leave this thread, this are just one of the hundreds of "right-wingers bash Obama threads"...they like to talk among themselves, and they simply don't want to here from anyone else.
Well I for one, am all ears.
I'll listen to anything reasonable.
[waiting for people who voted for Obama and no longer support]
[waiting for Obama voters who still support]
How has Obama increased the rights of the majority of citizens?
in your sig, you say "beware saul alinsky's tactics...here's a quote from him, in which you would obviously disagree...
Alinsky did not join political parties. When asked during an interview whether he ever considered becoming a Communist party member, he replied:
Not at any time. I've never joined any organization—not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or Marxism. One of the most important things in life is what Judge Learned Hand described as 'that ever-gnawing inner doubt as to whether you're right.' If you don't have that, if you think you've got an inside track to absolute truth, you become doctrinaire, humorless and intellectually constipated. The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by such religious and political and racial fanatics, from the persecutions of the Inquisition on down to Communist purges and Nazi genocide.[4]
Born to Russian-Jewish parents in Chicago in 1909, Saul Alinsky was a Communist/Marxist fellow-traveler who helped establish the tactics of infiltration -- coupled with a measure of confrontation -- that have been central to revolutionary political movements in the United States in recent decades. He never joined the Communist Party but instead, as David Horowitz puts it, became an avatar of the post-modern left.
Though Alinsky is rightfully understood to have been a leftist, his legacy is more methodological than ideological. He identified a set of very specific rules that ordinary citizens could follow, and tactics that ordinary citizens could employ, as a means of gaining public power. His motto was, “The most effective means are whatever will achieve the desired results.”
Saul from Chicago
I used #4
The rules
1 “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have."
2 “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
3 “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
4 “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
5 “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
6 “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
7 “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
8 “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”
9 “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
10 "The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition."
11 “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”
12 “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
13 “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Rules for Radicals
jimmyx
those listed tactics seems to be the ones republicans are using right now against Obama and democrats...far from radical, these tactics seem quite common now in politics.
(from same wiki link)
Adam Brandon, a spokesman for the conservative non-profit organization FreedomWorks, one of several groups involved in organizing Tea Party protests, says the group gives Alinsky's Rules for Radicals to its top leadership members. A shortened guide called Rules for Patriots is distributed to its entire network. In a January 2012 story that appeared in The Wall Street Journal, citing the organization's tactic of sending activists to town-hall meetings, Brandon explained, "his [Alinsky's] tactics when it comes to grass-roots organizing are incredibly effective." Former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey also gives copies of Alinsky's book Rules for Radicals to Tea Party leaders.