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What is Newt Gingrich saying?

He keeps saying that Obama is "Sollolinski" and I had no idea what he was saying. So I googled it and apparently he's saying "Saul Alinsky." Well I had no idea who the heck he was talking about so I looked it up.

Apparently he was some influential community organizer that managed to do a lot of good work...

So... Why is Gingrich comparing Obama to someone the vast majority of people have probably never heard of? I consider myself fairly knowledgeable in US history and political science and I had no clue.

Furthermore, he helped poor black people in the ghettos get better housing and spoke out against racism and promoted civil rights... Maybe he's just trying to draw a contrast? Obama like to help people and bring them together.. Newt likes to segregate and toss out all these code words about black people to white audiences?

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  • L.T.M.
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Saul Alinsky, Cloward/Piven, Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones..All Communist/Marxist fellow travelers and or racists. No problem if you like that sort of thing. Most Americans do not.

    Example:

    First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the Cloward-Piven Strategy seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

    http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/theclo...

    Re Alinsky

    In the Alinsky model, “organizing” is a euphemism for “revolution” -- a wholesale revolution whose ultimate objective is the systematic acquisition of power by a purportedly oppressed segment of the population, and the radical transformation of America’s social and economic structure. The goal is to foment enough public discontent, moral confusion, and outright chaos to spark the social upheaval that Marx, Engels, and Lenin predicted -- a revolution whose foot soldiers view the status quo as fatally flawed and wholly unworthy of salvation. Thus, the theory goes, the people will settle for nothing less than that status quo’s complete collapse -- to be followed by the erection of an entirely new system upon its ruins. Toward that end, they will be apt to follow the lead of charismatic radical organizers who project an aura of confidence and vision, and who profess to clearly understand what types of societal “changes” are needed.

    As Alinsky put it: “A reformation means that the masses of our people have reached the point of disillusionment with past ways and values. They don’t know what will work but they do know that the prevailing system is self-defeating, frustrating, and hopeless. They won’t act for change but won’t strongly oppose those who do. The time is then ripe for revolution.” /- end quotes

    http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfi...

    BUT keep in mind, the "transformation" Alinsky and the others seek is based on this theory of 'Social Justice' which is based in Marxism... to these people, Marx had more on the ball than Jefferson and Adams!

    If you're cool with that then you are in fact.. Un-American.

  • 9 years ago

    Gingrich is a politician who is vying for the presidency.

    He says "everything" his advisers tell him that the american public "want to hear", and "nothing" that they assume you "don't want to hear", most particularly "the truth".

    It does not really matter who becomes president, because big business rules the United States.

    I mean..... you even TWICE voted in GW Bush, a recovering alcoholic with a huge inferiority complex towards his own father. A man with a very shady character, who absolutely idolized the wealthy and powerful, then miraculously "found God". a move that undoubtedly helped his political career. The same man that loved to dress up in military clothing, even though he was always kept well protected from any real military action during his youth, and consequently had no military talent whatsoever.

    The very same man that cut taxes for his wealthy idols, time and time again.

    And just look at the mess he left behind after his "watch".........

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    Like the rest of Obama's friends and advisers, Saul Alinsky is a radical communist who hates America. If you hate the individual liberty and freedom we have in the USA, you will love Saul and his buddy Obama.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    Newt just might be the man,

    that will expose Obama, for his nefarious friendships of people that helped get him

    to where he is now

    Saul was only ONE that we questioned in last election

    that the MSM let slide

    Ayres,Rezko,Farrakhan, Wright, were other names

    that were ignored

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  • 9 years ago

    Newt Gingrich with a nuclear weapons arsenal? time to escape to the south pole

  • 9 years ago

    Your first sentence gives us a clue lol. he has no depth of knowledge on anything political, or moral or what middle or lower class even means. my elders called it talking out of both Sides of your mouth./ in other words liars/ the whole lot of these "conservatives" a term meaning "we keep all the money " not you poor working ppl.

  • 9 years ago

    Maybe he simply figures that if he confuses people enough, they will stop asking him difficult personal questions!

    I just saw him on BBC World and he made absolutely no sense to me!

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