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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI think I know why Republicans associate Saul Alinsky with Barack Obama
The name Saul sounds similiar to the word Socialist.
That's why they bring him up all the time and associate him with Obama.
MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)It's because he was a community organizer who was considered radical. The funny thing is the teabaggers use Alinsky's book as their organizing bible and Mitt Romney's father was a disciple.
DCKit
(18,541 posts)I wouldn't recommend that.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)WCGreen
(45,558 posts)It's obvious that a whole mess of right wingers don't particularly like Jewish Eastern European Folks, you know, killing Jesus and all, so they are smeering this obscure community organizer around to make it look as if president Obama is in cohoots with Jewish Radicals who, btw, killed Jesus...
These cutsy little code, Food Stamps, Saul Alinshy, Community Organizer have been used to paint a picture of president Obama not being one of "us"....
It's as simple as that....
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)the name sounds "Rooski Jooski."
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Alinsky = "Communist" and "Jew". 2 easy dog whistles.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Most people, Republican or Democrat, don't know or care who "Saul Alinsky" is. Newt keeps blabbing about this guy because he's got a weird foreign sounding name like "Karl Marx" and his supporters think "communist" or "marxist" or whatever when they hear it.