And the word was made flesh
Unlike Alinsky, Obama believed that politicians, not community organizers made history. If community organizing had an ideology at all, it was the product of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, which as I have written elsewhere, was an attempt to separate the revolutionary impulse from the apparatus and return it to the direct control of the people. Judis summed up the central tenet of Alinsky’s ideology and described how Obama had lost the faith
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Obama, however, wanted to be President. So his departure from community organizing is fair enough. What is slightly underhand is his practice of donning the romantic mantle of the organizer, the champion of “lost causes” and using the image of the quixotic loser he rejected in private as his badge of honor.