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Turning Into An Andrew McCarthy Fan

Posted on | September 5, 2010 | 5 Comments

by Smitty (h/t Big Journalism)

I followed Michael Walsh’s advice and read Andrew McCarthy’s review of the new book on Saul Alinsky.
McCarthy, who wrote Grand Jihad, sees through the sycophant author to the diabolical mind of Alinsky.
The last two sentences of the review, where another Alinsky acolyte, Obama, has attained the White House, are of note:

The fox has made it to the hen house. The old master would be proud.

I’m not sure Obama is a fox in the sense of Odysseus, and I’m not sure that Alinsky would feel ‘pride’ in any way commonly understood.
These two characters are fascinating. Obama and Alinsky, circumstantially, seem to have some fairy-tale vision. A Kingdom of God, without so much God. Yet their tactics seem void of creativity, capable only of achievement through destruction.
McCarthy’s review leaves one genuinely interested in Alinsky from a criminal psychology standpoint. Was there any ‘there’ there, or can an Alinsky (and an Obama) exist only parasitically, having something notionally functional like a Bush both to sustain them, and attack?
RTWT. It’s one of those pieces one is tempted to quote in full.

Category: Barack Obama

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5 Responses to “Turning Into An Andrew McCarthy Fan”

  1. jefferson101
    September 5th, 2010 @ 11:21 pm

    All too true. We have the folks who are intent on the ‘Class Struggle’, and we now have created a situation where “The fox has made it to the hen house. The old master would be proud.”

    Here we go.

    Of course, the Republicans aren’t sure they want to “repeal” Obamacare. It just needs ‘fixing’. More Beltway socialists, acting out of their own interest.

    Am I still paranoid if they are actually out to kill me?

    If our efforts to elect “Republicans” this year don’t prove to solve a flipping thing, (Which I doubt that it will) it’s time for a third party in 2012.

    I encourage everyone to vote straight ticket Republican this time. Then just hide and watch what doesn’t happen.

    Save your money for the new Party. I think we’re going to need one.

  2. jefferson101
    September 5th, 2010 @ 7:21 pm

    All too true. We have the folks who are intent on the ‘Class Struggle’, and we now have created a situation where “The fox has made it to the hen house. The old master would be proud.”

    Here we go.

    Of course, the Republicans aren’t sure they want to “repeal” Obamacare. It just needs ‘fixing’. More Beltway socialists, acting out of their own interest.

    Am I still paranoid if they are actually out to kill me?

    If our efforts to elect “Republicans” this year don’t prove to solve a flipping thing, (Which I doubt that it will) it’s time for a third party in 2012.

    I encourage everyone to vote straight ticket Republican this time. Then just hide and watch what doesn’t happen.

    Save your money for the new Party. I think we’re going to need one.

  3. David R. Graham
    September 6th, 2010 @ 4:50 am

    “Was there any ‘there’ there, or can an Alinsky (and an Obama) exist only parasitically, having something notionally functional like a Bush both to sustain them, and attack?”

    In classical philosophy, it is observed that non-being exists only as opposition to being. It has no independent existence, no being in and of itself. Without an “enemy” (being), it is not.

    You have identified the decisive characteristic of evil: it depends on good. Good is evil’s condition of existence. This is very important. It prevents dualism: two gods of equal puissance. It is the truth, which is unconditioned and therefore independent utterly.

  4. David R. Graham
    September 6th, 2010 @ 12:50 am

    “Was there any ‘there’ there, or can an Alinsky (and an Obama) exist only parasitically, having something notionally functional like a Bush both to sustain them, and attack?”

    In classical philosophy, it is observed that non-being exists only as opposition to being. It has no independent existence, no being in and of itself. Without an “enemy” (being), it is not.

    You have identified the decisive characteristic of evil: it depends on good. Good is evil’s condition of existence. This is very important. It prevents dualism: two gods of equal puissance. It is the truth, which is unconditioned and therefore independent utterly.

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