Barack “Saul Alinsky” Obama (Part TWO of THREE)
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Hillary,
Obama
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Alinsky
By Richard Lawrence Poe
_.__November 26th, 2007
FREEREPUBLIC.COM
Hillary, Obama and the Cult of Alinsky
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Alinsky once boasted,
“I feel confident that I
could persuade a millionaire
on a Friday to subsidize a
revolution for Saturday out
of which he would make a
huge profit on Sunday even
though he was certain to
be executed on Monday.”
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One Alinsky benefactor was
Wall Street investment banker
who served as Chairman of the
Federal Reserve from
1930 to 1933.
Meyer and his wife Agnes
co-owned The Washington Post.
They used their newspaper
to promote Alinsky.
Agnes Meyer personally
wrote a six-part series in 1945,
praising
Alinsky’s work in Chicago slums.
Her series, called
made Alinsky famous.
President Truman
ordered 100 reprints of it.
During the Sixties,
Alinsky wielded tremendous
power behind the scenes.
When President Johnson launched
his War on Poverty in 1964,
Alinsky allies infiltrated
the program,
steering federal money
into Alinsky projects.
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In 1966,
Senator Robert Kennedy
allied himself with union
leader Cesar Chavez,
an Alinsky disciple.
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beginning in 1952.
Kennedy soon drifted
into Alinsky’s circle.
After race riots
shook Rochester,
New York,
Alinsky descended
on the city and began
Kennedy supported
Alinsky’s shakedown.
The two men had an
“understanding”,
Alinsky later wrote.
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Alinsky’s crowning achievement
was his recruitment of a young
high school student named
Hillary Rodham.
She met Alinsky through
a radical church group.
for her senior thesis at
Wellesley College.
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They remained friends until
Alinsky’s death in 1972.
Alinsky tried to hire Hillary
as a community organizer,
but she chose instead to
attend Yale Law School.
Nonetheless,
Alinsky’s network continued
guiding Hillary’s career.
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Fresh out of law school at age 26,
Hillary received a prestigious
appointment to the House Judiciary
Committee’s Watergate
investigative team in 1974.
She got the job on the
recommendation of Peter
and Marian Wright Edelman.
The Edelmans have been
trusted mentors of Hillary
since 1969.
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