{"id":26815,"date":"2012-03-13T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26815"},"modified":"2012-03-13T12:51:12","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T17:51:12","slug":"dont-know-much-about-allinski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=26815","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Know Much About Alinsky"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like many conservatives, I watched the video of Obama cuddling up to the usual dog’s breakfast of radicals in college..<\/span><\/p>\n

…and thought “OK, that’s maddening, but it’s hardly anything to run a campaign on”.<\/span><\/p>\n

I mean, many of us said, did and wrote things in college and high school we’d not like to have turn up now. \u00a0I was a liberal, for crying out loud. \u00a0The platform I wrote for 1980 North Dakota Boys’ State would have made Paul Wellstone look like Ron Paul. \u00a0I’d rather it nor turn up, if you catch my drift.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the President’s past isn’t going to defeat him – and only partly because, like Mark Dayton’s mental health and alcoholism, the media will cover it up for all they’re worth. \u00a0No, it’s just not the kind of thing most Americans outside the conservative wonk class will ever care about. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And as Stanley Kurtz notes, <\/span>\u00a0the present is the outrage, and the future should be the real weapon against Obama<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t quite hold with either view. The debate is miscast, both because it treats the past and present as sharply different, and because it assumes we actually know and understand what Obama has been doing these last three-and-a-half years. I disagree. Many aspects of Obama\u2019s present\u2013to say nothing of his plans for the future\u2013are as guarded and mysterious as his radical past. In fact, the poorly-known side of Obama\u2019s world makes the clearest sense only when you combine research into his past and present alike….There are many aspects of Obama\u2019s current policies that the public knows little or nothing about, and seemingly familiar things that are still poorly understood. When you put the total picture together, the links between Obama\u2019s present and past can be drawn much more convincingly than many now imagine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s the slow, steady drip in the background, for those of us who are paying attention; if Obama wins re-election, and has either house of Congress, he’s going to go on a hopey-changey orgy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like many conservatives, I watched the video of Obama cuddling up to the usual dog’s breakfast of radicals in college.. …and thought “OK, that’s maddening, but it’s hardly anything to run a campaign on”. I mean, many of us said, did and wrote things in college and high school we’d not like to have turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-12","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26815"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26821,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26815\/revisions\/26821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}