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Thursday, October 30, 2008

Obama, Daily Kos and Saul Alinsky

Barack Obama has a diary at Far Left-loon site Daily Kos. In this 2005 post, Obama explained his political strategy perfectly. From Sweetness & Light.

In short, Obama's strategy is directly from Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. It says that if you want to bring revolutionary change, you need to say the right things that make it appear you are "moderate" (ie. use the term "middle class" often). But Obama says that his real strategy is to move the Democrat Party to the far Left and banish the moderates.