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American Thinker: Obama Failed to Master Alinsky's Rule #12Best article I've read in a long time.

JackBauer

Then I suggest you should probably read more.

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Patters

That article is sour grapes. Obama's doing well. FDR and Clitnon, too, tried to get health care passed. It's not easy, and the political hacks and insurance companies have a tight alliance, even using Sarah Palin to spread an absurd lies about "death panels." The proof that Obama knew how difficult this fight would be is that he built an alliance with the pharmaceutical companies, so they will be doing some advertising in favor of the plan. It's not a natural alliance, a progressive president with an industry that bilks consumers, but it's a necessary one given that conservatives are really staking everything on stopping the healthcare plan.

As far as Obama's tightly controlled town hall meeting, I'll take PatsWickedPissah's report anyday over the MSM, which is surely well connected to the insurance industry. I think Obama is ready to answer any questions, because the right has no good questions and instead is resorting to absurd claims and fear tactics. As far Obama not submitting his own plan, that was a strategic decision. He wisely chose to let Congress take ownership, while he and his staff have met consistently behind the scenes. Congress has a lot vested in passage of the plan, so I don't think this plan will go the way of Hillary care. If it loses, it will lose in a vote in Congress, not simply by fading away.

Otherwise, the article is rather thin, and if it's the best you've read in a long time, perhaps you're not good at choosing what to read. Perhaps you should read Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. It's quite short and pragmatic. Obama is quite pragmatic, too, whether or not he strictly follows the 50 year old Rules for Radicals or chooses a more updated approach to getting things done in DC.

Real World

An Obama, Big Pharma alliance. Great.

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State

What, me the English teacher who reads so much my wife calls herself a "book widow"?

But I'm not POTUS with a pronounced ignorance of things historical and geographical. I have never, for example, visited all 57 US states.

I knew the Soviets liberated Auschwitz, not the Americans. Not Obama. PolitiFact | Obama's Auschwitz error

The Berlin airlift a UN or world-wide endeavor? Hardly. But that's what our community organizer Chicago pol thinks. HANSON: Obama's history is off - Washington Times

DarrylS

Every article you have read is the best you have read in a long time.. interesting that people quote Alinski who do not understand Alinski...

The whole CO thing is a method, and to take one piece out and say he did not follow it goes against what Alinski taught, this reminds me of the euthanasia debate.. something taken out of context and twisted to meet someone's agenda...

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Wildo7

That's a victory for the Libertarian know nothings.

JackBauer

Well... that's entirely irrelevant. I thought we were discussing a crappy article that makes plenty of assertions sans evidence and offers no substantive alternative to what Obama and the Democrats have put on the table.

That's really is a shame, though. If these gaffes bother you so much, how on earth did you manage to live from 2001-2009?

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