WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
Is the kind of change Obama is talking about?
Industrial Areas Foundation, Saul Alinsky, Credo, Acorn, Interfaith Organizations.
It appeas all are interconnected, with IAF as the umbrella organization
Industrail Areas Foundation was founded by Saul Alinsky in 1940.
On Glenn Beck this evening, he was talking about voter fraud and an organization named Credo.
And it looks like Credo has ties to IAF..
IAF has afiliates all over the country advancing their ideas and causes.
These affiliates of IAF were knee deep in all those immigration marches a few years ago.
They may also be involved with Acorn. Now it looks like they have a hand in Credo
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When I Googled "Industrial Areas Foundation Credo" this link came up.
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This article was written March 25, 2007; And is quite enlightening about both Obama and Clinton.
For Clinton and Obama, a Common Ideological Touchstone
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.
Alinsky was a bluff iconoclast who concluded that electoral politics offered few solutions to the have-nots marooned in working-class slums. His approach to social justice relied on generating conflict to mobilize the dispossessed. Power flowed up, he said, and neighborhood leaders who could generate outside pressure on the system were more likely to produce effective change than the lofty lever-pullers operating on the inside.Both Obama and Clinton admired Alinsky's appeal for small-d democracy but came to believe that social progress is best achieved by working within the political system, and on a national scale
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