BEST OF THE WEB TODAY: 'A Bit of Dust That Burns for a Fleeting Second'

[saveliberty]

Wall Street Journal:

• BEST OF THE WEB TODAY
  
• March 1, 2012
  

'A Bit of Dust That Burns for a Fleeting Second'

 

An heir to Saul Alinsky is dead at 43.

 

 

By JAMES TARANTO

 

"Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule. A sense of humor enables him to maintain his perspective and see himself for what he really is: a bit of dust that burns for a fleeting second. A sense of humor is incompatible with the complete acceptance of any dogma, any religious, political, or economic prescriptions for salvation."--Saul Alinsky, "Rules for Radicals"

 

We roll our eyes whenever a conservative rails against Barack Obama for being an "Alinskyite radical." A radical Obama may be--he himself has described his purpose as "fundamentally transforming America"--but an Alinskyite he is not. As a young man, he worked as a "community organizer," but as we noted in 2008, he was an utter failure. The quote above helps explain why. It describes something close to the opposite of the dour, doctrinaire, self-important man who currently serves as president.

[SrWoodchuck]

Wall Street Journal:

• BEST OF THE WEB TODAY
  
• March 1, 2012
  

'A Bit of Dust That Burns for a Fleeting Second'

 

An heir to Saul Alinsky is dead at 43.

 

 

By JAMES TARANTO

 

"Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule. A sense of humor enables him to maintain his perspective and see himself for what he really is: a bit of dust that burns for a fleeting second. A sense of humor is incompatible with the complete acceptance of any dogma, any religious, political, or economic prescriptions for salvation."--Saul Alinsky, "Rules for Radicals"

 

We roll our eyes whenever a conservative rails against Barack Obama for being an "Alinskyite radical." A radical Obama may be--he himself has described his purpose as "fundamentally transforming America"--but an Alinskyite he is not. As a young man, he worked as a "community organizer," but as we noted in 2008, he was an utter failure. The quote above helps explain why. It describes something close to the opposite of the dour, doctrinaire, self-important man who currently serves as president.

 

Sorry James.......you're wrong again! The humor of which you speak IS Obama.....but he's also the joke, and it is on those who voted a man of color into office, believing that it was supremely American & fair. Oh, and you're wrong that he doesn't serve the same goals as Alinsky [the man who dedicated his treatise, "Rules for Radicals" to Lucifer....or Satan.] His methods may be more Cloward/Piven, but the effect & the damage is the same.

 

Leave Andrew Breitbart out of any analogy to the Usurper. The fact that he used leftist progressive tactics against your cabal, is beside the point.