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In a rather weird turn of events in an already weird political season, the Democrats now apparently have a new candidate running for president: Saul Alinsky. Anyway, according to Newt Gingrich, Alinsky is someone the Republicans ought to be running against. Gingrich stated the need for “somebody who is a conservative and who can stand up to (Obama) and debate, and who can clearly draw the contrast between the Declaration of Independence and the writings of Saul Alinsky,” He later said: “The centerpiece of this campaign, I believe, is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinsky,
Saul Alinsky is now in the presidential race
Seeded on Wed Feb 1, 2012 7:14 AM EST
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Nor was he thrilled with the conventional American political parties – and he was especially critical of the Southern Democrats as he turned his organizing efforts from the poor Northern whites to the blacks in the south. "Negroes were being lynched regularly in the South…and many of the white civil rights organizers who had started to work with them were tarred and feathered, castrated—or killed. Most Southern Democrat politicians were members of the Ku Klux Klan and had no compunction about boasting of it."
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#1 - Wed Feb 1, 2012 7:14 AM ESTClarence Page has a good column in today's Chicago Tribune titled "Gingrich's secret love affair with Saul Alinsky's tactics." Many right wingers are using Alinsky's tactics including Dick Armey's Freedom Works.
Great seed Ms CYPRAH.
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