I think I know why Republicans associate Saul Alinsky with Barack Obama

[Tony_FLADEM]

The name Saul sounds similiar to the word Socialist.

That's why they bring him up all the time and associate him with Obama.

[MrSlayer]

1. Nah.

It's because he was a community organizer who was considered radical. The funny thing is the teabaggers use Alinsky's book as their organizing bible and Mitt Romney's father was a disciple.

[DCKit]

2. You'll have to go far further into the RW psychotic to know for sure.

I wouldn't recommend that.

[Tx4obama]

3. Here's a DU link below to the video of what Bill Maher had to say about Alinsky/GOPers tonight

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10179102

[WCGreen]

4. Come on now...

It's obvious that a whole mess of right wingers don't particularly like Jewish Eastern European Folks, you know, killing Jesus and all, so they are smeering this obscure community organizer around to make it look as if president Obama is in cohoots with Jewish Radicals who, btw, killed Jesus...

These cutsy little code, Food Stamps, Saul Alinshy, Community Organizer have been used to paint a picture of president Obama not being one of "us"....

It's as simple as that....

[XemaSab]

5. As one of my teachers with that background put it

the name sounds "Rooski Jooski."

[COLGATE4]

6. Easy.

Alinsky = "Communist" and "Jew". 2 easy dog whistles.

[BlueStater]

7. It's just an obscure name Newt tosses around so his idiot supporters will think he's smart.

Most people, Republican or Democrat, don't know or care who "Saul Alinsky" is. Newt keeps blabbing about this guy because he's got a weird foreign sounding name like "Karl Marx" and his supporters think "communist" or "marxist" or whatever when they hear it.