The late Alinsky, a trench-warfare socialist who despised American capitalism, advised community organizers like Obama to “laugh at the enemy” to provoke “irrational anger.”
“Ridicule,” he said, “is man’s most potent weapon. It is almost impossible to counterattack ridicule. Also, it infuriates the opposition, who then react to your advantage.”
At another rally in Nevada, Obama called on the crowd of about 1,500 to join him in sharpening their elbows against McCain and his supporters. “I want you to argue with them and get in their faces,” he said, in a naked attempt to “fan hostilities” in the tightening race, something Alinsky also advised from his bag of agitation tricks.
Obama doesn’t look or talk like a radical. He speaks in measured tones and is rarely seen out of business attire. That, too, is borrowed from Alinsky’s playbook. Don’t scare the middle class, he guides urban revolutionaries in his 1970s manual “Rules For Radicals” (which he dedicated to mankind’s “first radical, Lucifer”).
Instead, look like them, talk like them, act like them.
And work for radical change from the inside — “like a spy behind enemy lines,” as Obama said in his first memoir. He wrote it before entering politics, while still working with hard-left Alinsky groups and training street agitators known as “community organizers.”
From: http://www.sodahead.com/blog/16757/how-obama-applies-saul-the-red-alinskys-rules/
