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Why Obama's "Community Organizer" Days Are a Joke

Cal

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Why Obama's "Community Organizer" Days Are a Joke
Michelle Malkin
Friday, September 05, 2008

Rudy Giuliani had me in stitches during his red-meat keynote address at the GOP convention. I laughed out loud when Giuliani laughed out loud while noting Barack Obama's deep experience as a "community organizer." I laughed again when VP nominee and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin cracked: "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities."

Team Obama was not amused. (Neither were the snarky left-wingers on cable TV who are now allergic to sarcasm.) They don't get why we snicker when Obama dons his Community Organizer cape. Apparently, the jibes rendered Obama's advisers sleepless. In a crack-of-dawn e-mail to Obama's followers hours after Giuliani and Palin spoke, campaign manager David Plouffe attempted to gin up faux outrage (and, more importantly, donations) by claiming grave offense on the part of community organizers everywhere. Fumed Plouffe:

"Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack's experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed. Let's clarify something for them right now. Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies."

Let me clarify something. Nobody is mocking community organizers in church basements and community centers across the country working to improve their neighbors' lives. What deserves ridicule is the notion that Obama's brief stint as a South Side rabble-rouser for tax-subsidized, partisan nonprofits qualifies as executive experience you can believe in.

What deserves derision is "community organizing" that relies on a community of homeless people and ex-cons to organize for the purpose of registering dead people to vote, shaking down corporations and using the race card as a bludgeon.

As I've reported previously, Obama's community organizing days involved training grievance-mongers from the far-left ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). The ACORN mob is infamous for its bully tactics (which they dub "direct actions"); Obama supporters have recounted his role in organizing an ambush on a government planning meeting about a landfill project opposed by Chicago's minority lobbies.

With benefactors like Obama in office, ACORN has milked nearly four decades of government subsidies to prop up chapters that promote the welfare state and undermine the free market, as well as some that have been implicated in perpetuating illegal immigration and voter fraud. Since I last detailed ACORN's illicit activities in this column in June (see "The ACORN Obama knows," June 19, 2008), the group continues to garner scrutiny from law enforcement:

Last week, Milwaukee's top election official announced plans to seek criminal investigations of 37 ACORN employees accused of offering gifts to sign up voters (including prepaid gas cards and restaurant cards) or falsifying driver's license numbers, Social Security numbers or other information on voter registration cards.

Last month, a New Mexico TV station reported on the child rapists, drug offenders and forgery convicts on ACORN's payroll. In July, Pennsylvania investigators asked the public for help in locating a fugitive named Luis R. Torres-Serrano, who is accused "of submitting more than 100 fraudulent voter registration forms he collected on behalf of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now to county election officials." Also in July, a massive, nearly $1 million embezzlement scheme by top ACORN officials was exposed.

ACORN's political arm endorsed Obama in February and has ramped up efforts to register voters across the country. In the meantime, completely ignored by the mainstream commentariat and clean-election crusaders, the Obama campaign admitted failing to report $800,000 in campaign payments to ACORN. They were disguised as payments to a front group called "Citizen Services, Inc." for "advance work."

Jim Terry, an official from the Consumer Rights League, a watchdog group that monitors ACORN, noted: "ACORN has a long and sordid history of employing convoluted Enron-style accounting to illegally use taxpayer funds for their own political gain. Now it looks like ACORN is using the same type of convoluted accounting scheme for Obama's political gain." With a wave of his magic wand, Obama amended his FEC forms to change the "advance work" to "get-out-the-vote" work.

Now, don't you dare challenge his commitment to following tax and election laws. And don't you even think of entertaining the possibility that The One exploited a nonprofit supposedly focused on helping low-income people for political gain.

He was just "organizing" his "community." Guffaw.
 

loomixguy

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Remember.......this is the man whom Old Komrade, KooKoo, fff, nn, and others want to be President. This is the "change" they are so hell-bent on having.... :roll:
 

kolanuraven

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John McBush told all his people at the convention, during his speech to get out volunteer and help out in the community, organize assistance programs for the community...etc.


Hypocrites for sure.

But I guess ya'll have smelled shite for so long....all of it coming from Bush2....that you can't even smell it now coming from the McBush camp now.
 

Sandhusker

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How is that hypocritical? The Republican's stance (and anybody living in reality) is that community organizing is not an activity that has any pull on a resume of an applicant for the presidency.
 

kolanuraven

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Sandhusker said:
How is that hypocritical? The Republican's stance (and anybody living in reality) is that community organizing is not an activity that has any pull on a resume of an applicant for the presidency.


But PTA is more important ??????? :roll: :roll: :roll:
 

Sandhusker

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kolanuraven said:
Sandhusker said:
How is that hypocritical? The Republican's stance (and anybody living in reality) is that community organizing is not an activity that has any pull on a resume of an applicant for the presidency.


But PTA is more important ??????? :roll: :roll: :roll:

PTA is comparable to community organizer. :lol: But, I don't see Repubs leading with that "experience". The Obama crew is highlighting that like it matters (probably because they're reaching to find something, anything, that could possibly, maybe, hopfully suggest that Obama has actually done SOMETHING in his "career").

BTW, I asked you what you would put on Barak's resume if you were helping him a while ago. Come up with anything yet?
 

aplusmnt

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kolanuraven said:
Sandhusker said:
How is that hypocritical? The Republican's stance (and anybody living in reality) is that community organizing is not an activity that has any pull on a resume of an applicant for the presidency.


But PTA is more important ??????? :roll: :roll: :roll:

Yep! Why did Michele and Obama join the PTA? Or do they not have that in elitist private schools they send their kids to?

I guess it is OK to be against the PTA or vouchers if you have the money to send your school to any you wish?

Back to the important question, why did Obama not join the PTA?
 

Larrry

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The PTA is a he77 of a lot better recommendation than a community organizer. Have you ever heard of PTA moms using violence to get what they want. But it must be allright for the community organizer to do it according to the socialists.
 

kolanuraven

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Larrry said:
The PTA is a he77 of a lot better recommendation than a community organizer. Have you ever heard of PTA moms using violence to get what they want. But it must be allright for the community organizer to do it according to the socialists.


If that's all YOUR community organizers do.......you must live in one doozie of a shite-ty neighborhood. You the mayor?
 

Larrry

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If that's all YOUR community organizers do.......you must live in one doozie of a shite-ty neighborhood. You the mayor?

Eat crow lady, eat crow


FROM WIKIPEDIA

Community organizing is a process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest and compel others to join them. While organizing describes any activity involving people interacting with one another in a formal manner, much community organizing is in the pursuit of a common agenda. Many groups seek populist goals and the ideal of participatory democracy. Community organizers are often times foot soldiers for the local political machine. Political machines were once very prevalent in the older and larger U.S. cities in the first half of the 20th century, especially around the time of Al Capone. Only a few political machines prevail today, most notably in Chicago. Community organizers create social movements by building a base of concerned people, mobilizing these community members to act, and developing leadership from and relationships among the people involved.

Community organizers act as area-wide coordinators of all the programs of different agencies so as best to meet community needs for health and welfare services. They also facilitate self-help programs initiated by local common-interest groups, for example, by training local leaders to analyze and solve the problems of a community. Community organizers work actively, as do other types of social workers, in community councils of social agencies and in community-action groups. At times the role of community organizers overlaps that of the social planners.

Common aspects of organized communitiesOrganized community groups self interest from government, corporations and institutions as well as increased direct representation within decision-making bodies and social reform. Where negotiations fail, these organizations seek to inform others outside of the organization of the issues being addressed and expose or pressure the decision-makers through a variety of means, including picketing, boycotting, sit-ins, petitioning, and electoral politics. When these methods fail, it may lead to negative and violent means by people who are greatly affected with non-decisions or setbacks.

Community organizing is usually focused on more than just resolving specific issues. Organizing seeks to make the participants that they are empowering all community members, often with the end goal of distributing power equally throughout the community. However, any influence that may be achieved may in fact only empower the leaders of the "community Organizer."
 

kolanuraven

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kolanuraven said:
Larrry said:
The PTA is a he77 of a lot better recommendation than a community organizer. Have you ever heard of PTA moms using violence to get what they want. But it must be allright for the community organizer to do it according to the socialists.


If that's all YOUR community organizers do.......you must live in one doozie of a shite-ty neighborhood. You the mayor?


I'll repeat myself in quote, it's easier!!.


Here ,Community Organizers work with the Red Cross, homeless/soup kitchens, summer activity kids for the local kids and the list goes on and on.
 

Steve

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kolanuraven said:
kolanuraven said:
Larrry said:
The PTA is a he77 of a lot better recommendation than a community organizer. Have you ever heard of PTA moms using violence to get what they want. But it must be allright for the community organizer to do it according to the socialists.


If that's all YOUR community organizers do.......you must live in one doozie of a shite-ty neighborhood. You the mayor?


I'll repeat myself in quote, it's easier!!.


Here ,Community Organizers work with the Red Cross, homeless/soup kitchens, summer activity kids for the local kids and the list goes on and on.

in Chicago the "community organizers" broker deals with crooked developers to renovate and manage housing for the poor,.. then use the connections to further their political careers.. leaving the poor worse off then when they started..
 

kolanuraven

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Steve said:
kolanuraven said:
kolanuraven said:
If that's all YOUR community organizers do.......you must live in one doozie of a shite-ty neighborhood. You the mayor?


I'll repeat myself in quote, it's easier!!.


Here ,Community Organizers work with the Red Cross, homeless/soup kitchens, summer activity kids for the local kids and the list goes on and on.

in Chicago the "community organizers" broker deals with crooked developers to renovate and manage housing for the poor,.. then use the connections to further their political careers.. leaving the poor worse off then when they started..



Ohhhh...so they're Republicans!!!!



Must be a Yankee ' thing' if that's the way ya'll organize YOUR communities!!!!!!


<<Theme from The Sopranos in the background>>
 

kolanuraven

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Larrry said:
If that's all YOUR community organizers do.......you must live in one doozie of a shite-ty neighborhood. You the mayor?

Eat crow lady, eat crow


FROM WIKIPEDIA

Community organizing is a process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest and compel others to join them. While organizing describes any activity involving people interacting with one another in a formal manner, much community organizing is in the pursuit of a common agenda. Many groups seek populist goals and the ideal of participatory democracy. Community organizers are often times foot soldiers for the local political machine. Political machines were once very prevalent in the older and larger U.S. cities in the first half of the 20th century, especially around the time of Al Capone. Only a few political machines prevail today, most notably in Chicago. Community organizers create social movements by building a base of concerned people, mobilizing these community members to act, and developing leadership from and relationships among the people involved.

Community organizers act as area-wide coordinators of all the programs of different agencies so as best to meet community needs for health and welfare services. They also facilitate self-help programs initiated by local common-interest groups, for example, by training local leaders to analyze and solve the problems of a community. Community organizers work actively, as do other types of social workers, in community councils of social agencies and in community-action groups. At times the role of community organizers overlaps that of the social planners.

Common aspects of organized communitiesOrganized community groups self interest from government, corporations and institutions as well as increased direct representation within decision-making bodies and social reform. Where negotiations fail, these organizations seek to inform others outside of the organization of the issues being addressed and expose or pressure the decision-makers through a variety of means, including picketing, boycotting, sit-ins, petitioning, and electoral politics. When these methods fail, it may lead to negative and violent means by people who are greatly affected with non-decisions or setbacks.

Community organizing is usually focused on more than just resolving specific issues. Organizing seeks to make the participants that they are empowering all community members, often with the end goal of distributing power equally throughout the community. However, any influence that may be achieved may in fact only empower the leaders of the "community Organizer."



:lol: :lol: You have to look it up and quote Wiki !!!!
:roll: :roll: :roll:

You can't even say what your community organizers even do.........prob don't want your cheap azz help anyway.

You prob just sit around and tell everyone else how wrong they are!!!
 

Larrry

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My community and my service is not an issue I am not running for Prez.

Obama is and his record is there for us to analyze. surely you can see that. I guess you are a lib so I must cut you some slack. You are our special needs poster.
 

kolanuraven

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Larrry said:
My community and my service is not an issue I am not running for Prez.

Obama is and his record is there for us to analyze. surely you can see that. I guess you are a lib so I must cut you some slack. You are our special needs poster.


Ok..looks like I win this round!!! :wink:
 

Larrry

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Just what I would expect from a special needs poster.

The funniest thing is you did not dispute the community organizer info I posted. I knew you couldn't it was beyond your skill level. I guess you will have to go back to your crayons.
 

Sandhusker

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Sandhusker said:
kolanuraven said:
Sandhusker said:
How is that hypocritical? The Republican's stance (and anybody living in reality) is that community organizing is not an activity that has any pull on a resume of an applicant for the presidency.


But PTA is more important ??????? :roll: :roll: :roll:

PTA is comparable to community organizer. :lol: But, I don't see Repubs leading with that "experience". The Obama crew is highlighting that like it matters (probably because they're reaching to find something, anything, that could possibly, maybe, hopfully suggest that Obama has actually done SOMETHING in his "career").

BTW, I asked you what you would put on Barak's resume if you were helping him a while ago. Come up with anything yet?

Can't come up with anything, Kolo? Why am I not surprised? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

What's not funny is that you can't come up with a single qualification, but yet you're still supporting him. It's a shame liberals have such low regard for the office of president.
 

Steve

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kolanuraven said:
Steve said:
kolanuraven said:
I'll repeat myself in quote, it's easier!!.


Here ,Community Organizers work with the Red Cross, homeless/soup kitchens, summer activity kids for the local kids and the list goes on and on.

in Chicago the "community organizers" broker deals with crooked developers to renovate and manage housing for the poor,.. then use the connections to further their political careers.. leaving the poor worse off then when they started..



Ohhhh...so they're Republicans!!!!



Must be a Yankee ' thing' if that's the way ya'll organize YOUR communities!!!!!!


<<Theme from The Sopranos in the background>>


I can understand you calling him a yankee, if that's what you want to say about Obama.. thats' your choice but I wouldn't exactly say he is a republican.. nor from Jersey, mob connected maybe, crooked yes..
 

Rambo

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kolanuraven said:
John McBush told all his people at the convention, during his speech to get out volunteer and help out in the community, organize assistance programs for the community...etc.


Hypocrites for sure.

But I guess ya'll have smelled shite for so long....all of it coming from Bush2....that you can't even smell it now coming from the McBush camp now.


McCain asked people to volunteer, Obama got paid. More than a little difference imo.
 
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