Saturday, September 06, 2008
What is this community organizer thing?
It turns out that Tom Wolfe -- yes, of The Right Stuff and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and other great books of every era I can remember -- wrote all about the business of being a "community organizer" in San Francisco of the late 1960s, which may or may not resemble what it was like in Chicago of the middle 1980s. Steve Sailer lovingly typed in an excerpt from Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
3 Comments:
By 
, at
Sun Sep 07, 02:21:00 PM:
Check out the comments on Amazon that go with the five star and the one star reviews. They are timeless and telling as well.
By , at
Sun Sep 07, 09:04:00 PM:
I tried to find the book a couple of months ago, and it was evidently out of print then. Thanks for the tip. You'll get the 48ยข from my order. I once witnessed some individual mau-mauing at a welfare office in Oakland, which was very effective, and which I may write about on my blog someday.
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JPMcT, at
Tue Sep 09, 11:27:00 PM:
The guys that hired Obama as a "community organizer" were all accolytes of Saul Alinski, who was dead for about 10 years before Obama...but the band played on...
Rubbing the edges of the disadvantaged until they were raw...the idea was to "listen" to the community and use the local concerns to create a powerbase by invoking the disaffected to become a voting bloc...and in turn, introduce socialistic, even marxist, ideals using the legislative branch of government...rather than the usual course of using the judicial branch.
Hillary Clinton wrote her thesis on Alinski's concepts of using community "orgainizers" to promote a radical political agenda.
This is an aspect of Obama's early career that nobody seems interested in explaining...yet it says the most about where this VERY dangerous man is coming from.
