Alinsky’s book Rules for Radicals is not an unuseful read. Alinsky’s a full-on leftist type; he brings up good and (somewhat politically unrelated) points about how to effect political change. Unfortunately, those who heard about the book or read it incompletely caused the required lame chants and giant puppets at demonstrations nowadays–that was new when Alinsky was young, but he’s been gone a long time now.

I have used lessons from Alinsky’s methods, on occasion, to good effect…for goals that might well have made Alinsky blanch.

One of my friends at work is a graduate of West Point (1964). He was 2 years ahead of Clark, but has no memory of him, even though the school was smaller then. What he did say was that the alumni message boards are absolutely BURNING with invective about General Clark for this attack. He was not well liked before this, and now he is actively hated. General Clark was viewed as a politician with an out of control ego, who was always looking to boost himself at others expense. Getting relieved of command for the Balkans fiasco was the icing on the cake.

One last dig at Senator Webb regarding charachter. Midshipman North beat him fair and square in that boxing match, and Webb hasn’t ever come to terms with it.

Make that 142 or 143 days actually in the Senate.

As Senior Chief F. used to say, “When you’ve got as much time in the Navy as I’ve got on a Navy head I’ll be interested in your opinion.”

Seems apropos here too…

lex didn’t you mean

“Which, perhaps that’s happened – I honestly haven’t noticed – but mostly it seems that he and his campaign have been forced to parry petulant philippics from projecting Obama proxies.”?

I believe that is the correct puhsychological term.

See what I mean? Pure evil genius. They never see it coming.