and a pragmatist. He was all about building coalitions, and VISTA (a US government agency) used to use his book to train their volunteers. I know the right has been demonizing him because of the Chicago-organizer link to Obama, but that has about as much validity as Freedom fries had back in the day.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > > BTW have you ever read Alinsky or have any idea of what he did? If so > you would never be parrotting the right wing myth about the evils of > the man. For instance you know that he was quite conservative and a > republican. > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I am not interested in myths. You made a statement that requires > > proof. Now I am calling you on it. Where is the proof? > > > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> > >> "Again no numbers etc., just more 'The Sky is Falling!!!' > >> > >> > >> It's amazing. Progressive statists can't connect the dots when it > doesn't > >> fit their world view but they have no problem connecting the dots along > the > >> lines of Trig Truthers, 911 Truthers, Florida 2000 Truthers, Ohio > Diebold > >> Truthers, and so on. > >> > >> > >> "So again all you are doing then is just repeating someone's lie." > >> > >> What lie? I gave two examples of the green movement indicating they > would > >> not support Obama if he allowed the pipeline. You think they are the > only > >> ones? Anyway, if it makes you feel better, call it my opinion. > >> > >> > >> "In other words all is allowed, lies prevarications distortions just to > make > >> the other" > >> > >> According to progressive hero Saul Alinksy, yes... > >> > >> I don't follow that philosophy though. In this case it was actually > >> pertinent. You say that Boehner is makes several hundred thousand > dollars > >> potentially. That's chump change compared to what Nancy accomplished. > He > >> was a poor student. Plus, she actually got her deals through. . . > >> > >> > >> "So you are admitting that you comments have no validity. End of story." > >> > >> Yes Larry. I am also saying your comments have no validity without > >> confirmation. Hence the word "all". No one should believe what they > read > >> on the internet without the willingness to verify. > >> > >> J > >> > >> - > >> > >> It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of > public > >> opinion. - Joseph Goebbels > >> > >> The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless > one > >> fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine > itself > >> to a few points and repeat them over and over. - Joseph Goebbels > >> > >> > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:345843 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
