Ben Carson Speech Suggests Hillary Mentor Admired Lucifer

In case you missed it, Dr. Ben Carson gave quite a speech on Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention, one in which he made a rather big deal about Hillary Clinton hero Saul Alinsky���s alleged affection for none other than Satan.

Alinsky is generally thought to be the original American leftist community organizer. He is particularly well-known for his book Rules for Radicals, published in 1971, just a year before his death of a heart attack at age 63. Rules for Radicals is essentially a handbook for community organizing within perceived disenfranchised communities across the United States, and Alinsky drew on his own experiences as a preeminent community organizer from 1939 to 1971 to create the manuscript. The book has become a highly-regarded work by the American left, and the principles outlined are regularly employed today by progressive social activists. As a matter of fact, even some groups on the right have found it a useful reference, although the book, and Alinsky himself, are chiefly darlings of the far left.

It is well-known that Alinsky was a big influence on Hillary Clinton, so much so that he was the subject of her senior undergraduate thesis at Wellesley College.

In his Tuesday speech in support of Donald Trump, Carson made mention of the fact that Alinsky wrote an epigraph in Rules for Radicals that seems to be, if not a testimonial on behalf of Satan, a bit of an homage���and went on to pointedly ask if we���re ���willing to elect someone as president who has as their role model somebody who acknowledges Lucifer?���

This is the epigraph in question:

���Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins ��� or which is which), 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.���

Here is the principal excerpt from Carson���s speech that addresses Alinsky, Lucifer, and Clinton:

���One of the things that I have learned about Hillary Clinton is that one of her heroes, her mentors, was Saul Alinsky.

���And her senior thesis was about Saul Alinsky. This was someone that she greatly admired and that affected all of her philosophies subsequently.

���Now interestingly enough let me tell you about Saul Alinsky. He wrote a book called ���Rules for Radicals.��� On the dedication page it acknowledges Lucifer, ���the original radical who gained his own kingdom.���

���Now think about that. This is a nation where our founding document the Declaration of Independence talks about certain inalienable rights that come from our Creator. This is a nation where our Pledge of Allegiance says that we are ���One Nation under God.��� This is a nation where every coin in our pocket and every bill in our wallet says ���In God we Trust.���

���So are we willing to elect someone as president who has as their role model somebody who acknowledges Lucifer? Think about that.���

By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large