http://www.frumforum.com/radosh-on-alinsky-how-radical-was-he
August 11th, 2010
Writing in National Review, Ronald Radosh reviews Nicholas von
Hoffman's new biography of Saul Alinsky which presents a different
take on the controversial community organizer.
One often hears critics of President Obama's policies proclaim that
he is acting "straight out of the Alinsky playbook." Because Obama
was a community organizer for a brief time before going to law
school, many people have assumed that, as a disciple of Saul Alinsky,
he was committed thereafter to apply Alinsky's principles as a guide
for whatever position he held in life. Many therefore assume that he
is now acting on them as president. …
According to von Hoffman, Alinsky had nothing but disdain for the
New Left with which Obama was associated. He thought Bill Ayers was
wedded to "petulant ego decision making," as well as a "comic-book
leftism whose principal feature was anger at a government which did
not do as they bade it. Their foot-stamping anger and humiliation at
their failures . . . made them believe they were justified in taking
up violence." He saw the Weather Underground as a group prone to
tantrums and "Rumpelstiltskin politics."
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