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The subject of Alinsky for this presidential election...

Submitted June 25, 2008 - 5:15 pm by Jeff Larson

..goes back at least a year. A number of people observed that both Dem candidates were influenced by Alinsky and had distinctly different assessments of his work. See the Washington Post in March 25, 2007: For Clinton and Obama, a Common Ideological Touchstone.

There is also a short but decent summary of Alinsky HERE.

It's amazing how many people want to remain ignorant about this perspective on this years election. And it includes Dems, MSM and even bloggers. I'm hoping those folks continue sleeping a bit because once Obama is in office it is still going to be a struggle achieving some of these goals against the folks who are too cosy with the status quo.

It seems to me the pressure to publish blog posts sometimes prohibits bloggers from looking deeper into angles like this. Some share that curse/blessing with the MSM. But Kos has definitely impressed me this year. And I'm left shaking my head about others I won't take time to mention.

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