What I'm Reading on February 19, 2008 (UPDATED)

This time it's Saul Alinsky's biography.

"Who?" I hear you ask. Well, shame on you, Concerned Voter, for not knowing who Alinsky was!

Okay, I hadn't heard of the guy either until a few months ago. As it turns out two of the four presidential candidates have some sort of tie to the famed Chicago Community Organizer. (Side note: every time I hear/see those last two words together, I cringe. It reminds me of those mind-numbingly boring summer "jobs" I used to have--the ones in which the tax-payers funded endless teenage games of Spades.) To put it simply, Alinsky was one of the Twentieth Century's most ardent proponents of the Unconstrained Vision.

Can you guess which two candidates have ties to Alinsky?

RELATED: Some pinhead berated me for using the word 'communist' in relation to Senator Obama's political education and heritage. To that person, I say again...

Okay, not. However, please read the fascinating article entitled "Obama's Communist Mentor," that mentor being one Frank Marshall Davis. Obama mentions Davis briefly in Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, but Cliff Kincaid contends that the influence was more substantial.

(Thanks to Memeorandum)

UPDATE: Fascinating.