Alinsky and Obama

The Agitator
Barack Obama's unlikely political education
Ryan Lizza, The New Republic | Monday, March 19, 2007

Democrats’ Platform for Revolution
By John Perazzo, FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, May 05, 2008

The Industrial Areas Foundation, founded by Saul Alinsky

Comments on Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals,
including a list of the rules:

Rules for Power Tactics:
1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2. Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. Whenever possible, go outside of the experience of the enemy.
4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8. Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.
9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.
12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.