The Heritage Foundation’s Morning Bell gets to the heart of the Obama White House operations here. The WH tactics are straight out of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals.
We are in
no way the first to point this out, but this Obama administration
strategy is taken directly from the pages of Chicago community
organizer Saul Alinsky?s book Rules for Radicals. It identifies thirteen rules for progressive activists including, ?The thirteenth rule: ?Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.? Explaining just how far progressives must be willing to go to marginalize their ?enemies? Alinsky explains a few pages later:
Many liberals during our
attack on the then-school superintendent, were pointing out that after
all he wasn?t a 100 percent devil, he was a regular churchgoer, he was
a good family man, and he was generous in his contributions to charity.
Can you imagine in the arena of conflict charging that so-and-so is a
racist bastard but then diluting the impact of the attack with
qualifying remarks such as, ?He is a good churchgoing man, generous to
charity and a good husband?? This becomes political idiocy.
And the White House policy prescriptions are straight out of the Progressive playbook, contempt for average Americans and rule by experts.
This is why you have Obama?s Energy Secretary telling auto makers how they must build cars. This is why Obama?s health care plan empowers a panel of health care ?experts? to reorganize one-sixth of our economy from the top down. Commonsense questions like, ?Won?t our electricity bills go up if we mandate power companies use more expensive alternative energy sources??, and ?Won?t our health insurance premiums go up if everyone is charged the same price and nobody can be refused coverage??
can?t be tolerated. People voicing such criticisms must be isolated and
silenced. That?s what the White House campaign the Politico identifies
today is all about.
