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Title: Mitt Romney's Father Palled Around With Saul Alinsky
Source: buzzfeed.com
URL Source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpol ... ther-palled-around-with-saul-a
Published: Jan 23, 2012
Author: N/A
Post Date: 2012-01-23 16:42:49 by Ferret
Keywords: None
Views: 84
Comments: 2

Newt regularly inveighs against the radical figure. “I think you ought to listen to Alinsky,’ George Romney said after the '67 riots. Romney Sr. made Alinsky “sound like a Republican.”


Romney posed with a campaign poster of his father's last week in South Carolina. (Getty Images / EMMANUEL DUNAND)

The radical pioneer Saul Alinsky, who helped invent the practice of bottom-up politics through "community organizing" in the middle of the 20th century, has become a key bogeyman for Republican in the Obama era. Obama worked for Alinsky acolytes early in his career, and even contributed to an anthology titled "After Alinsky."

"Saul Alinsky radicalism is at the heart of Obama," Gingrich told CNN Sunday.

But Obama isn't the only candidate with one-degree-of-separation ties to Alinsky. In his biography of Romney's father, Michigan Governor George Romney, T. George Harris wrote in his book "Romney's Way" that the elder Romney and Alinsky met after the Detroit riots of 1967.

When slum organizer Saul Alinsky, with the West Side Organization’s militant Negroes and clerics, wanted to meet with the white Detroit rulers, Romney indirectly arranged the meeting, and attended. Democratic Mayor Jerome Cavanaugh avoided the rough company.

"I think you ought to listen to Alinsky," Romney told his reluctant white friends. ‘It seems to me that we are always talking to the same people. Maybe the time has come to hear new voices." Said an Episcopal bishop, ‘He made Alinsky sound like a Republican. (1 image)

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#1. To: Ferret (#0)

Maybe the time has come to hear new voices." Said an Episcopal bishop, ‘He made Alinsky sound like a Republican.

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"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha

Original_Intent  posted on  2012-01-23   16:54:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Ferret (#0)

Do we know who Newt's dad palled around with??

Shoonra  posted on  2012-01-23   20:57:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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