Obama, Same as the Others
Alinsky, as you may know, is one of our Dear Leader’s political heroes. Once an ideologue that shunned the mainstream, it appears today Mr. Alinsky has been absorbed fully into this administration’s tactics. Of note are Alinsky’s 13 Rules for Radicals. See if you can spot them in the Obama Administration’s tactics:
- “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.”
- “Never go outside the expertise of your people.”
- “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.”
- “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
- “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.”
- “A good tactic is one your people enjoy.”
- “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.”
- “Keep the pressure on. Never let up.”
- “The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.”
- “The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.”
- “If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive.”
- “The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.”
- “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”