Does she really think Palin is smart?

Now it comes out that Obama did quite consciously and successfully use the Saul Alinksy model of community organizing. But how could he not. Alinsky is considered the father of community organizing. Good that didn’t come out in the campaign considering the title of his book is “Rules for Radicals”.

Here’s an excerpt:

“There’s another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution. To bring on this reformation requires that the organizer work inside the system, among not only the middle class but the 40 per cent of American families – more than seventy million people – whose income range from $5,000 to $10,000 a year [in 1971]. They cannot be dismissed by labeling them blue collar or hard hat. They will not continue to be relatively passive and slightly challenging. If we fail to communicate with them, if we don’t encourage them to form alliances with us, they will move to the right. Maybe they will anyway, but let’s not let it happen by default.”

What Obama had to be careful about was putting too much emphasis on his experience as a community organizer. It did give rise to one of the best bumper stickers though: “Jesus was a community organizer”.