Saul Alinsky on "Change"

According to Bill Clinton, Obama needs to talk a little optimism. (Frankly I can't imagine how insane the press would have been had Bush ever spoken as negatively as The One does... but I digress.)

Obama is simply following The Leader.

Saul Alinsky

Courtesy of FR's ETL:

Saul Alinsky on "Change"...
From Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing:

"There's another reason for working inside the system. Dostoevsky said that taking a new step is what people fear most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution."

Saul Alinsky, The Latter Rain
http://latter-rain.com/ltrain/alinski.htm