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To: Brumar89 who wrote (266216)	9/6/2008 12:36:27 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 793597

Obama won’t rediscover community organizing until some humbling experience brings back to him the reasons why Alinsky’s suspicion of leadership-oriented movements arose in the first place This says to me that Obama's model of political success is the demagogue with a mass following. Nothing in his campaign contradicts this notion. But successful demagogues thrive on class resentments, and they usually have an ordered program, like Mussolini or Hitler. Nobody can say that Hitler didn't bring a definite political philosophy to the table. Obama seeks to do it on "hope and change" alone. And "soak the rich". It's not enough to provide staying power, I think.