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To: steve harris who wrote (663247)

7/21/2012 3:49:23 PM

From: SilentZ

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Alinsky coined the term community organizer. Nothing good about it.

OK, you guys have gotta stop it with the Alinsky stuff. You know very well you (and I) had never even heard of him until Republicans, particularly Newt, started dragging him out as a bogeyman. Obama never knew the dude.

But I've been doing some reading up on him, and it turns out he actually did not like extremes on the left or the right. And he seems like he was a good guy.

You know who was the first major politician to have anything to do with him (as far as I can tell)? Mitt's dad.

When slum organizer Saul Alinsky, with the West Side Organization’s militant Negroes and clerics, wanted to meet with the white Detroit rulers, Romney indirectly arranged the meeting, and attended. Democratic Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh avoided the rough company.

"I think you ought to listen to Alinsky," Romney told his reluctant white friends. ‘It seems to me that we are always talking to the same people. Maybe the time has come to hear new voices." Said an Episcopal bishop, ‘He made Alinsky sound like a Republican.

buzzfeed.com

Can we finally stop this silliness on this board? Alinsky is nothing more than a dog whistle at this point.

-Z

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