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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Apr 24, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Lynda wrote:

> Sheesh, I am soooo blind and really do feel D-U-M-B. \

Lynda, that's old news. Here's an article from a month ago:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/24/AR2007032401152.html

For Clinton and Obama, a Common Ideological Touchstone
By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, March 25, 2007; Page A01


CHICAGO -- The job offer to "Miss Hillary Rodham, Wellesley College"  
was dated Oct. 25, 1968, and signed by Saul D. Alinsky, the  
charismatic community organizer who believed that the urban poor could  
become their own best advocates in a world that largely ignored them.

Alinsky thought highly of 21-year-old Rodham, a student government  
president who grew up in the Chicago suburbs. She was in the midst of  
a year-long analysis of Alinsky's aggressive mobilizing tactics, and  
he was searching for "competent political literates" to move to  
Chicago to build grass-roots organizations.



Seventeen years later, another young honor student was offered a job  
as an organizer in Chicago. By then, Alinsky had died, but a group of  
his disciples hired Barack Obama, a 23-year-old Columbia University  
graduate, to organize black residents on the South Side, while  
learning and applying Alinsky's philosophy of street-level democracy.  
The recruiter called the $13,000-a-year job "very romantic, until you  
do it."

Today, as Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton face off for the Democratic  
presidential nomination, their common connection to Alinsky is one of  
the striking aspects of their biographies. Obama embraced many of  
Alinsky's tactics and recently said his years as an organizer gave him  
the best education of his life. Clinton's interest was more  
intellectual -- she turned down the job offer -- and she has said  
little about Alinsky since their association became a favorite subject  
of conservative critics during her husband's presidency. . . .

Neither candidate would agree to be interviewed about Alinsky. But  
Marian Wright Edelman, the Children's Defense Fund leader, who knows  
Obama, worked closely with Clinton and spoke at Alinsky's funeral,  
said the organizer's allure was formidable, particularly in the  
energized 1960s. . . .

"He was brilliant. He was working for underdogs. He was trying to  
empower communities, which we still need to do. He spoke plainly. He  
had his outrageous side, but he also had his pragmatic side," Edelman  
said. "Both Hillary and Barack reflect that understanding of community- 
organizing strategy. Both just know how to leverage power."
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On Apr 24, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Gene GeRue wrote:

> On Apr 24, 2008, at 6:21 PM, Lynda wrote:
>
> > Sheesh, I am soooo blind and really do feel D-U-M-B. \
>
> Lynda, that's old news. Here's an article from a month ago:
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/24/AR2007032401152.html
>
> For Clinton and Obama, a Common Ideological Touchstone
> By Peter Slevin
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Sunday, March 25, 2007; Page A01


Pardon me, that would be a year and a month ago.
>