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on Thursday, March 29, 2007 7:04:24 PM
If either Hillary or Obama is elected president, it will mark the first known time that we will have a disciple of Saul Alinski occupying the Oval Office (no word yet from the Carter Library). Alinski, was a true 60's radical and leftist. He penned the definitive primer for the far left-wing activists, Rules for Radicals (1971) and another earlier book along the same lines Reveille for Radicals (1945), the former tome states clearly that the 'activist' should live by the rule of "the ends justify the means."
Neither of the Democrat front-runners (Mrs Clinton nor Obama) are commenting on their "alleged" links to Alinski and for good reason. Take a sampling of Alinski's words and one can see that he is describing perfectly Today's Liberals and many of the 'Leaders' of the Democrat Party itself when he writes:
"Liberals in their meetings utter bold words; they strut, grimace belligerently, and then issue a weasel-worded statement which has tremendous implications, if read between the lines. They sit calmly, dispassionately, studying the issue; judging both sides; they sit and still sit."
One is left to ponder whether either Obama or Mrs Clinton harbor these sentiments about their colleagues in the Senate. But at the same time, one can reach the reasonable conclusion that the very idea they 'might' is cause enough to not address their link with Alinski the radical.
There is another plausible reason for the silence of the Libs, and because it is even more true about the Democrats currently occupying Congress, (to be fair a Republican or two as well, Sen Chuck Hagel leaps to mind as well) silence is most definately the best option for the presidential hopefuls. It is the definition of a 'Liberal' as offered by Alinski when he says:
"There is a saying that the Liberal is one who walks out of the room when the argument turns into a fight."
So it may just be that the two candidates simply DO NOT want the American voter to be contemplating the words of their favorite 60's radical in relation to these days of Troop Withdrawal Time-lines with the Pork appetizers being served up on Capitol Hill, as we enter the polls in November 2008. Would you?