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Alinsky: a radical who matters: Barack Obama has been greatly influenced by Saul Alinsky's radical theories of political organizing. What effect is this likely to have on an Obama presidency?(ELECTIONS)
Saul Alinsky, who died 36 years ago and is only dimly known today, has had a major impact on the 2008 presidential election from the grave. He is a radical who matters, whose theories of political organizing are the lifeblood of the Obama campaign, as well as influencing the political career of the temporarily vanquished Hillary Clinton.
Saul Alinsky, it was said, looked like an accountant, but talked like a stevedore. William F. Buckley, Jr. grudgingly stated that he was "twice formidable, and very close to being an organizational genius."
Saul Alinsky was an avowed radical, yet his definition of "radical" was not what most people would expect. He ...
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