Until Former Speaker Gingrick brought up the name I didn't know he was so hated. Good heavens.

I am quite sure there is an uptick in his book.  I don't know if that was the Former Speakers intention, but, I am sure there is a new wave sweeping the nation.  I mean why bring it up if they hate the guy, there are going to be more disciples than ever.  I never read the book and I am not going to.  I have a lot of reading to do and this is not on the list.  Heck, I have to finish reading The American Job Act.


It is really a shame the Republicans believe making up faux fear is the best way to win an election.  Amazing.  They call that politics?  


I don't consider a man that was "The Father of Empowerment" a dangerous or indecent man.  I find his values moral and his methods desperately necessary.

Newt Gingrich keeps likening President Obama to radical community organizer Saul Alinsky. But Gingrich seems to have adopted Alinsky's tactics himself, as has the tea party. Mainstream Republicans aren't happy.

By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer

January 28, 2012

“The centerpiece of this campaign, (click title to entry - thank you) I believe, is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinsky,” Gingrich said in his South Carolina primary victory speech, a charge he finds constant ways to repeat. "Saul Alinsky radicalism is at the heart of Obama,” he said on CNN....

...So who was Saul Alinsky?

Born in Chicago in 1909 to Russian immigrant parents, Alinsky worked his way through the University of Chicago, then dropped out of grad school to organize the poor in the city’s slums, demanding better working and living conditions. He went on to do the same thing in other US cities....

Anyone who knows anything about the Jewish-American experience in the early 20th Century, it is well known they were activists in their own lives to establish their place in the USA and develop their own social worth.  Another example of an activist Jewish community was in the South, in New Orleans.  Below is a link to an essay about Mississippi Jewish Immigrants.  The Jewish Communities in the South didn't discriminate against African Americans in the early 20th century.  That, itself, was revolutionary and there were many raised eyebrows about this relationship between the two ethnic communities.  

...Jewish immigrants from Germany and Alsace (click here) settled in Mississippi in the 1840s. They were joined by Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the Jewish immigrants initially worked as traveling peddlers. Since most Jews had been legally prevented from owning land in Europe, they had no experience with farming. Legal discrimination had made it hard for Jews in Europe to rely on someone else to support them economically, so they learned to support themselves through business ownership. When they came to Mississippi, they drew on this entrepreneurial experience and became involved in commerce. Peddlers went from town to town, providing necessary supplies to farmers and their families. Often the peddlers received merchandise from wholesalers in Memphis, Tennessee, or New Orleans, and traveled the state looking for customers....


...Jewish civic involvement was not unique to Mississippi, as Jews across the South were elected to public service positions. One reason for this acceptance was that Jews assimilated to Southern culture. While remaining faithful to their unique religion and culture, Mississippi Jews have worked to lessen the barriers and differences between themselves and their Gentile neighbors. They have embraced the cultural values of the region, for better or worse....


The only people that won't admit there has always been a place for "Movers and Shakers" in the USA are those that want a 'stable' playing field for promotion of their monetary fortunes, like Mr. Forbes.  When will the Republicans stop rewriting history?