They used Saul Alinsky's rules...
I'm not a Sarah Palin fan but I found this interesting:
"In her game-changing convention speech, Sarah Palin took a swipe at Obama for having been nothing more in his life than a ‘community organizer’.
This prompted the Obama campaign to issue a pained defense of community organization as a way of promoting social change ‘from the bottom up’. The impression is that community organizing is a worthy if woolly and ultimately ineffectual grassroots activity. This is to miss something of the greatest importance: that in the world of Barack Obama, community organizers are a key strategy in a different game altogether; and the name of that game is revolutionary Marxism.
The seditious role of the community organizer was developed by an extreme left intellectual called Saul Alinsky. He was a radical Chicago activist who, by the time he died in 1972, had had a profound influence on the highest levels of the Democratic party. Alinsky was a ‘transformational Marxist’ in the mould of Antonio Gramsci, who promoted the strategy of a ‘long march through the institutions’ by capturing the culture and turning it inside out as the most effective means of overturning western society. In similar vein, Alinsky condemned the New Left for alienating the general public by its demonstrations and outlandish appearance. The revolution had to be carried out through stealth and deception. Its proponents had to cultivate an image of centrism and pragmatism. A master of infiltration, Alinsky wooed Chicago mobsters and Wall Street financiers alike. And successive Democratic politicians fell under his spell.
His creed was set out in his book ‘Rules for Radicals’ – a book he dedicated to Lucifer, whom he called the ‘first radical’. It was Alinsky for whom ‘change’ was his mantra. And by ‘change’, he meant a Marxist revolution achieved by slow, incremental, Machiavellian means which turned society inside out. This had to be done through systematic deception, winning the trust of the naively idealistic middle class by using the language of morality to conceal an agenda designed to destroy it. And the way to do this, he said, was through ‘people’s organizations’...full text: Obama, his Mentor Saul Alinsky, and what a "community Organizer" is
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2078653/posts
"The rejection of morality and ethics and the embrace of total pragmatism to achieve the goal of power is characteristic of the “radical” Lucifer so respected by Alinsky."
Lucifer, a success--that's a nice role model for our President.
Full text: Saul Alinsky and the Rise of Amorality in American Politics by D. L. Adams. January, 2010.
http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/53923/sec_id/53923