ruveyn wrote:
President Obama does not like America. He is a latter day apostle of the trouble make Saul Alinsky.
Prior to his election to the senate Obama used to be a "community activist" using Alinsky's play book.
ruveyn
Oh, President Obama likes America all right. Being a trouble-making community activist doesn't make him bad.
Saul Alinsky did quite a lot of good work during his life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_AlinskyQuote:
Alinsky's tactics were often unorthodox. In Rules for Radicals he wrote, 'the job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a 'dangerous enemy.'" According to Alinsky, "the hysterical instant reaction of the establishment [will] not only validate [the organizer's] credentials of competency but also ensure automatic popular invitation."
As an example, after organizing FIGHT (an acronym for Freedom, Independence [subsequently Integration], God, Honor, Today) in Rochester, New York, Alinsky once threatened to stage a "fart in" to disrupt the sensibilities of the city's establishment at a Rochester Philharmonic concert. FIGHT members were to consume large quantities of baked beans after which, according to author Nicholas von Hoffman, "FIGHT's increasingly gaseous music-loving members would hide themselves to the concert hall where they would sit expelling gaseous vapors with such noisy velocity as to compete with the woodwinds." Satisfied with his threat yielding action, Alinsky later threatened a "piss in" at Chicago O'Hare Airport. Alinsky planned to arrange for large numbers of well-dressed African Americans to occupy the urinals and toilets at O'Hare for as long as it took to bring the city to the bargaining table. According to Alinsky, once again the threat alone was sufficient to produce results. In Rules for Radicals, he notes that this tactic fell under two of his rules: Rule #3: Wherever possible, go outside the experience of the enemy; and Rule #4: Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
I don't think that President Obama ever organized anything really fun like that.