The Highly Shaky Newt Saul Alinsky Meme

Much of the time I run on gut and logic Logic as Peirce understood it is the biggest and least used gift of the Holy One Newt is arguing that Obama is a Saul Alinsky radical One of the few areas where I do have expertise is the subject of Saul Alinsky As a Chicago journalist in the 1960s I researched and wrote the most searching examination of Alinsky that appeared in that decade It appeared as "Saul Alinsky and His Critics" in Christianity and Crisis the magazine founded by Reinhold Niebuhr It was widely anthologized Only two other persons at the time did comparable analyses They were Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton Both concluded as I did that Alinsky was a capable organizer at local levels But that the country could not be changed merely by community organization It required a national democratic effort of the type that both these worthies undertook Newt is off base and the most salient argument against his attempt to brand Obama as a "Saul Alinsky Radical" is to ask who Alinsky's most loyal supporters were One of them was Marshall Field who funded Industrial Areas Foundation The other was the Archdiocese of Chicago which was Alinsky's most staunch ally in the city where he did his most publicized organizing work in Woodlawn and in Back of the Yards In Woodlawn his opponent was the University of Chicago In the light of history one would have to call that fight a stand-off Alinsky would have understood why  The University was and is more powerful than TWO And power tells Newt and Alinsky are more close than Obama was to Alinsky Newt will not get far if we successfully demythologize his mischaracterization of Saul Alinsky and Barack Obama His history is lacking
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