http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/alinsky.asp
Secondly, Clinton did write her thesis about Alinksy [[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillar..._senior_thesis) but she doesn't have much good to say about his strategies. You can read the entire thesis if you want to, it's online. Her conclusion even at that young age was that working within the system to achieve incremental change was better. That's been consistent throughout her entire life.
For Obama, Alinksy's rules are basically the opposite of his political worldview. Obama's political career has been about building consensus with agreeable policy ideas. The idea that if you're nice guy and propose doing reasonable things that people will come together [[which turned out to be pretty naive). I have no idea where the narrative comes from that he's divisive. I've watched all of the State of the Union addresses, I followed his campaigns, I've seen plenty of his other interviews and things. The guy spent 8 years bending over backward to not be divisive.
Clinton is more politically adversarial, but in the normal traditional way. She understands that to get democratic policies implemented you need votes in congress, and getting them takes a lot of work and strategic deal making. Everyone who's ever dealt with her knows that she's very good at this. That's bad for republicans and so republicans should naturally oppose her. But her [[or Obama for that matter) becoming president just means normal traditional policy defeats for republicans, not the establishment of some kind of new world order socialist dictatorship.
As far as Carson goes it doesn't matter what his ideas are or how smart or unsmart he is or what life experiences he's had. The basic fact is that running a large and complicated department requires experience in doing that kind of thing. He doesn't know how the department works, the organizational structure, how you go about implementing new policies [[regardless of what those policies are), how you balance different competing parts of the department and staff, how you can tell when the people around you are doing their jobs correctly. There are thousands of people all across the country who have dedicated their lives to working at HUD and with HUD's policy areas. He has no idea who they are or what they're talking about. It's like someone who never went to college, has never done art, has no experience with fundraising/bureaucracy/university politics, and doesn't even know who Picasso is, suddenly becoming the dean of an art school. He could literally be Albert Einstein, he simply doesn't have the expertise for that particular job. If Carson wanted to be the director of HUD then maybe he should have spent the last 40 years doing HUD stuff instead of doing brain surgery.