This video comes courtesy of the HotAir.com website. What comes through here is Buckley’s brilliance. He’s tough, but civilized and respectful here toward Alinsky.

Alinsky was also respectful of Buckley.  They were having an intelligent conversation.

This is very different from the 30-second sound bites, shallow political talking points, and shouting matches we see today on the cable news channels. It’s too bad we only have this five-minute clip of the show online.

You can read a transcript of the entire interview at the Hoover Institute, or buy a DVD of the show from Amazon.

Alinksy is Obama’s inspiration and guide.  His book ‘Rules for Radicals‘ became the handbook for the Abby Hoffman-style protesters and agitators of the 1960s.  Obama called Rules for Radicals one of the books that most shaped his own thinking.

Alinsky’s entire adult life was devoted to destroying capitalism in America — an economic system he considered to be oppressive and unjust.

Alinsky called himself  a “community organizer.”  His base of operations was in Chicago.

Obama’s political career began when Alinsky’s disciples hired young Obama to study and implement Alinsky’s “community organizing” methods in the poor areas of  Chicago’s South Side.

When The New Republic interviewed Mike Kruglik, one of Obama’s early teachers in Alinsky’s methods, Kruglik called Obama “the best student he ever had.”

Alinsky considered himself a disciple of Lucifer.

So what does that make Obama?

Obama  is a disciple of Alinsky. And interestingly, Alinsky considered himself to be a disciple of Satan. Here’s what Alinsky wrote in Rules for Radicals:

“Lest we forget at least an over the shoulder acknowledgement of the very first radical, from all our legends, mythology, and history … the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer.”

So what does this make Obama?

Hmmmm.

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