Letters to the Editor
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Changing society
Thanks for the reference to Saul Alinsky! Everybody wants to change society and remake in their own image of perfection. We've had other great speakers like TR, FDR, and JFK, and made it through. So throwing Hilter and Stalin in there is a bit much for me. Especially with the checks and balances in our system that still work after 200 years. Not exactly equivalent to post 1918 Russia or Germany post WWI.
I know most people find this boring, but I think the fact that Obama taught constitutional law at U. Chicago to be significant. I think he will turn to the founders to seek guidance, not socialists; although many of the founders viewpoints are not now popular and polls bear this out. And I'm one of those types who think that the middle class in America is set up to be hosed due to large structural economic reasons that may not be in the US soveriegn interest long term.
Here's an always non-definitive wikipedia blurb about Alinsky and Hillary:
Alinsky was the subject of Hillary Rodham's senior honors thesis at Wellesley College, "There Is Only The Fight...": An Analysis of the Alinsky Model.[8] Rodham commented on Alinsky's "charm," but noted that “one of the primary problems of the Alinsky model is that the removal of Alinsky dramatically alters its composition." [8] Later, in her 2003 biography, "Living History" Clinton notes that although she agreed with some of his ideas, "particularly the value of empowering people to help themselves" they had a fundamental disagreement: "He believed could change the system only from the outside. I didn't." [8] Once Hillary Rodham Clinton became First Lady of the United States, the thesis was suppressed by the White House for fear of being associated too closely with Alinsky's ideas.[9]
http://letters.salon.com/news/feature/2008/03/26/hillary/new/form.html