This is going to hurt their "walking around money".

It's almost like it was taken from "The Onion".

Do the community organizers need a community organizer now?

Just askin'.

So how long before the money trail tracks back to either the Barry Campaign or Soros?

Oh my...don't hold your breath waiting for that apology!

waiting....waiting....waiting while Palin puts on her lipstick.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

I think small town mayors need an apology from Obama.

Why do they write in the same 5th grade style as the drive-by trolls?

Organizers demand apology from Alaska governor, say “we’re working to clean up your mess!”

Oh please spare me...

I demand that community organizers account for their time. I want to know what the tax dollars are going toward and how much success has been achieved.

Good job, guys. Turn the spotlight on yourselves. I've got some questions for you.

Really big demographic we alienated. lol

re: #7 NoSubmission

I think small town mayors need an apology from Obama.

Brilliant, just brilliant

In today's St. Pete Times (Tampa), an article that appears to be textbook Taqiyya discusses the University of South Florida's new "Serenity Room" at the student center. It turns out that the "Serenity Room" is really meant for all students, but it just happens to be pale green, in the shape of a "half moon" and is situated next to a special "shower room" that will assist Muslim students in performing wudu. The article must be read to be believed in its efforts to portray the room as something other than a muslim prayer room. Here is the link.

Muslim Prayer Room called "Serenity Room"

Oh, darn, now Sarah's gone and lost us the ACORN vote.

//

Yay for the Democrats! Another oppressed minority group has spawned! Community Organizer Marriage should be legal! A right I tell you...

Bwahahahahahahahaha!

Charles - you need to do an Ajax thing to have a floating "don't read this next post while drinking" warning.

And nice grab bar on the bottom of the comment box. Anyway to save the user's size setting to a cookie?

re: #16 Celtic Templar

Crap, I'm sorry

for #16 /sarc

re: #4 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

So how long before the money trail tracks back to either the Barry Campaign or Soros?

I bet the detectives are on the case right now.

From the comments:

Tina // September 4, 2008 at 4:43 pm

I was a bit surprised to hear the attack on community organizers simply because I am really impressed by Mr. Obama’s work history. This is a man who inspires me to serve my community and help others. It is strange to see this background twisted as anything other than admirable.

These are the people who think Palin is clueless....

PHOTO: Gratuitous Palin on a Harley shot.

Just because.

What are their responsibilities?

Gosh I hope they don't threaten to hold countless meetings were nothing gets done.

Gee, seems to me that mayors deserve an apology from community organizers - or at least Obama.

re: #17 karmic_inquisitor

And nice grab bar on the bottom of the comment box. Anyway to save the user's size setting to a cookie?

That's what those dots are! Thank you.

This from the comments to the article:

Kurt Busiek // September 4, 2008 at 4:39 pm

As someone else said on another blog…

Jesus Christ was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor.

Perhaps “good Christian” Sarah Palin should consider that.

This was actually being promoted yesterday on CNN by Roland Martin ( is that his name)? He said both his parents are 'community organizers" and Palin was going to hear from them across the country.

He was serious.

Which just goes to show you how un-serious CNN News has become.

In a speech that devastating, there's bound to be some collateral damage somewhere. Suck it up, losers.

Couldn't post this last night because LGF kept dropping out on me. That speech was the political equivalent of walking into a bar and locking the door behind you, then kicking the crap out of everyone.

I searched the web and am still not clear on what community organizer does. How is it different from the old Chicago style "ward heeler"? Other than the former specializing in disposing of federal money.

Latest Gallup poll shows the Obamessiah up by 7. Rasmussen, including 'leaners' shows a 5 point lead by the Messiah. Let's send him back to Chicago!

re: #23 bulwrk

Gosh I hope they don't threaten to hold countless meetings were nothing gets done.

Oh you just reminded me of that scene of community organizers in 'The Life of Brian'. LOL. They've been mocked by the masters and they're mad at Sarah?

I do some hiring as part of my job. I must say that if I say a resume with "Community Organizer" in place of actual job experience, I would not even offer up an interview. I would assume they were unemployable.

I demand an apology from Community Organizers.

WTF is a "community organizer" anyway? Is that some fancy term for a huckster or hustler? Or is it just a gangbanger by another name?

re: #28 Noam Sayin'

Chuck Norris, but in a skirt ... without a beard ... and ravishing

re: #26 HelloDare

Jesus Christ was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor.

Again with the Messiah reference!

re: #22 Right Brain

What are their responsibilities?

They dont have any, they only have causes and agendas. If they fail, they can always fall back on "Well, I tried."

Soon to trot out:
The National Association of Serving Community ORganizers will rally and demand respect. Obama will attend a vegie barbecue and Vespa race to build solidarity with his fellow NASCOR Dads.

re: #29 deadman

Community organizers register the dead to vote. I thought you knew that, from your nic. ;)

Community organizers are an important part of life in America. So are mayors, who actually have a responsibility to their constituents. Community organizers can be present. Mayors have to act (or should I say should act since some fail to do so with lives are on the line).

Even now, Democrats cannot summon the courage to call Palin governor - disrespecting both her, her family, and most importantly, her constituents in Alaska. It's demeaning and disrespectful. They demean her service as mayor, and they think that a remark about Obama's community organizing days was grounds for victimization. Nice.

The community organizers will calm down once they get their props.

To whom are the styrofoam Greek Columns to be delivered?

re: #36 scottishbuzzsaw

Again with the Messiah reference!

I'm sure Jesus Christ did not approve of partial birth or late term abortion ... FAIL

community organizers are rabble rousing commies.
strong arm robbers, inciting violence, and often leaving communities more destitute than when the parasites came in.
why do these skels deserve an apology? what they do is reprehensible.
they need to be investigated by law enforcement, prosecuted and put away.

What is a community organizer, REALLY?

It was Barry that made the comparison between community organizer and being mayor. Did they think that Sarah wasn't going to respond? Is that not fair in politics anymore?

The Left continues to somehow amaze me with their arrogance.

re: #26 HelloDare

Well, a procurator isn't precisely a governor, but that's the best remark they have.

According to Wiki:
"Community organizing is a process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest. 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 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."

Another comment.

obamatron // September 4, 2008 at 5:11 pm

I couldnt live without my desk organizer . It has helped me so much .

re: #26 HelloDare

Jesus Christ was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor.

Sorry, Kurt. Obama ain't Jesus and Sarah ain't Pontius. No ice cream for you.

There are no community orgainzers in my community. What community needs an organizer? Sounds like a politically correct title for a Democratic hack.

“Community organizers work in neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by the failing economy,” said John Raskin, founder of Community Organizers of America and a community organizer on the West Side of Manhattan. “The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we’re trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed.

I rest my case.

re: #46 Dianna

Well, a procurator isn't precisely a governor, but that's the best remark they have.

Plus, Christ wasn't exactly a "community organizer". He was a religious figure, a rabbi, IIRC.

Is "community organizer" even a title in the Occupational Outlook Handbook?

I never had to live in a community that needed any more organization than who was going to bring what to the BBQ.

The community organizers launched a new web site,
http://organizersfightback.wordpress.com, to defend themselves against Republican attacks.

<crickets>

}:)     [What, there were no accounts available on Geocities?!]

I posted this last night, but I can't remember who said it now.

They made the comment about wanting to see Biden and Romney debate.
They said it would be like a fight between the biggest loud mouth in the bar and the bar owner.

I once lived in a part of town that had "community organizers". They would come in to your place of business and say things like "Nice place ya got here. It would just be a SHAME if something were to, you know, HAPPEN to it...".

You mean McCain might lose the vote of communist agitators and race-baiters! What a blow to lhis base.

re: #26 HelloDare

Here I thought Jesus' job title was "Christ". Of course, the Leftwing nuts are trying to give that title to BHO.

re: #34 Honorary Yooper

It's the people from CALPIRG and similar organizations that show up on your doorstep during dinnertime and ask you to sign a petition or contribute money. Sometimes both.

re: #44 right_on_target

What is a community organizer, REALLY?

Here's some info, from the horse's mouth, so to speak.

re: #21 NoSubmission

PHOTO: Gratuitous Palin on a Harley shot.

Just because.

I wanna see her ride that.......in that skirt ;~)

re: #44 right_on_target

What is a community organizer, REALLY?

To paraphrase something I read: A community organizer is someone who rubs raw the wounds in a given community to channel that anger and pain into political power. See Al Sharpton.

re: #50 maddogg

There are no community orgainzers in my community. What community needs an organizer? Sounds like a politically correct title for a Democratic hack.

I rest my case.

That's good - what in Republican Chicago? LOL or Republican Philadelphia? Or Republican Detroit? Do they even know what they're saying?

re: #55 rawmuse

You got an up-ding for making me laugh.

I can only imagine what a community organizer is.....which is......not much.

Aren't Sharpton and Jackson community organizers? In other words.....a created job to correct a created problem in hopes of creating a better community in our overall creation. Yes.....someone MUST do this for us or else we cannot know how to be happy.

The question is....exactly what is being organized in the community?

re: #9 Cindermutha

Because they ARE the drive by trolls.

re: #28 Noam Sayin'
HEY NOAM!

That speech was the political equivalent of walking into a bar and locking the door behind you, then kicking the crap out of everyone.

Boy, that there's the TRUTH.
Sarah took no prisoners, either.

Wasn't Al Sharpton a community organizer?

#14

SERENITY NOW!

re: #32 Dahveed

I do some hiring as part of my job. I must say that if I say a resume with "Community Organizer" in place of actual job experience, I would not even offer up an interview. I would assume they were unemployable.

Depends, on who they were organizing, and what for, what else is on the resume, and what you're hiring for. In some places, jobs like that are considered like spending time in the peace corps, or missionary work, and like that. Idealistic, resume *enhancing*. I suspect that's how 0bambi saw it. Heck, it worked for him.

Community organizer, or rabble rouser?
It seems the majority fall into the later.

The United Steel Workers are not happy with Palin introducing her husband as a Union member...

USW Statement on John McCain's VP Choice - LINK : [Link: www.usw.org...]

Here we go. Community organizers.

“Community organizers work in neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by the failing economy,” said John Raskin, founder of Community Organizers of America and a community organizer on the West Side of Manhattan. “The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we’re trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed.

Who destroyed? Again, who?

More like the Democrats destroyed, nitwit. It was, after all, LBJ's Great Society that ruined these neighborhoods by demanding that fathers not live with their children and the mothers of said children so those women and children could receive welfare payments. These fatherless kids then joined gangs and started the destruction of those neighborhoods. Now we have "babby daddies" instead of fathers thanks to these Democrats and community disorganizers.

re: #69 itellu3times

Depends, on who they were organizing, and what for, what else is on the resume, and what you're hiring for. In some places, jobs like that are considered like spending time in the peace corps, or missionary work, and like that. Idealistic, resume *enhancing*. I suspect that's how 0bambi saw it. Heck, it worked for him.

I agree, it makes me think ex-convict with ties to very bad people.

re: #29 deadman

I searched the web and am still not clear on what community organizer does. How is it different from the old Chicago style "ward heeler"? Other than the former specializing in disposing of federal money.

Seems to be all about getting "government" to fix problems.

It probably wouldn't occur to a community organizer to enlist the private sector.

Community organizers are agitators looking for a large check written out to them.

And, it was "The Obama" who looked down with distain on Sarah's job as a mayor of a small town.

I still can't figure out if that is a real website or if it is satire. I really can't.

I've organized a few block parties in my day, does that make me a "community organizer"?

With all these community organizers in a tizzy, I'm worried about our communities falling into a state of disorganization.

re: #64 fishbob

I can only imagine what a community organizer is.....which is......not much.

Aren't Sharpton and Jackson community organizers? In other words.....a created job to correct a created problem in hopes of creating a better community in our overall creation. Yes.....someone MUST do this for us or else we cannot know how to be happy.

The question is....exactly what is being organized in the community?

Well, in Kragaristan, communities are organized for 3 reasons;
1) Crushing the enemy
2) Seeing them driven before you
3) Hearing the lamentation of the women

re: #14 Gordon Marock

In today's St. Pete Times (Tampa), an article that appears to be textbook Taqiyya discusses the University of South Florida's new "Serenity Room" at the student center. It turns out that the "Serenity Room" is really meant for all students, but it just happens to be pale green, in the shape of a "half moon" and is situated next to a special "shower room" that will assist Muslim students in performing wudu. The article must be read to be believed in its efforts to portray the room as something other than a muslim prayer room. Here is the link.

Muslim Prayer Room called "Serenity Room"

The big test will be what happens if several Jews want to use it as a prayer room.
I have my guesses.

re: #47 right_wing2

According to Wiki:
"Community organizing is a process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest. 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 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."

OHHHHH! Sounds involved!
/

re: #71 Ringo the Gringo

The United Steel Workers are not happy with Palin introducing her husband as a Union member...

USW Statement on John McCain's VP Choice - LINK : [Link: www.usw.org...]

Piss on the socialistic union bosses. The rank and file can see the writing on the wall.

re: #80 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Crom!

Believe it or not. I once was a Leftist Community organizer for an environmental lobbying organization. I might have to rename my job title on my resume.

re: #78 Ringo the Gringo

I've organized a few block parties in my day, does that make me a "community organizer"?

Only if you got taxpayer's money to do the job.

Note to community organizers; She was referring to THIS.

re: #14 Gordon Marock

Sounds like a good place to relax with a good book and a BLT.

Community Organizers have their place....far away from here.

Oh Geeze. Get a life.

re: #80 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Well, in Kragaristan, communities are organized for 3 reasons;
1) Crushing the enemy
2) Seeing them driven before you
3) Hearing the lamentation of the women

4) Being there to console them... heh heh

re: #50 maddogg

There are no community orgainzers in my community. What community needs an organizer? Sounds like a politically correct title for a Democratic hack.

The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we’re trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed.

I rest my case.

So who do they get to rebuild the neighborhood that Obama and his friends destroyed?

Community organizers are people who show up at a fire and either pour gasoline on it or start moving the ladder while the real professional responders are standing on it. They are paid interns for political machines or act as uneducated and unlicensed ministers without any of the messy impediments of religion or responsibility.

re: #84 Celtic Templar

Crom!

Kragaristan believes in the firm separation of Church and State, though we do recognize our strong Crom background.

Unless you work for ACORN, I don't think community organizers are evil, it's just not any kind of prep for a U.S. President! I'm sure most do some good work with non-profit groups, soup kitchens, tutoring programs, etc... Some might even be conservative, like the lady at my church who might fall under that title. But, it's not a preparation for president. Especially when you worked for ACORN. Least prepared candidate in 100 years or more.

I just looked "community organizer" up in the OOH-Occupational Outlook Handbook: Result: ZERO results for occupations with that title.

Not recognized by the Bureau of Labor.

Was that oblama minister guy who said G'Damn America
a community whatzit?

They need to re-organize themselves.

Can't we all get along? LOL

re: #87 FrogMarch

Note to community organizers; She was referring to THIS.

Looks like the set for "Good Times".

re: #48 HelloDare

Another comment.

That one was hilarious. And it's still there.

From article

Though many people are unfamiliar with community organizing, the job is both straightforward and vital: community organizers work with families who are struggling–because of low wages, poor health coverage, unaffordable housing, and other community problems–so that collectively, they can fix those problems and make government respond to their day-to-day concerns. Organizers knock on doors, attend community meetings, visit churches and synagogues and mosques, and work with unions and civic groups and block associations to help ordinary people build power and counter the influence of self-interested insiders and highly paid lobbyists at all levels of government

Pretty fancy descrition of intermeddling parasites. .

The United Steel Workers are not happy with Palin introducing her husband as a Union member...

USW Statement on John McCain's VP Choice - LINK : [Link: [Link: www.usw.org...]...]

You have remember this about teh USW.
They are working now with enviromentalist wackos. They call it the "blue-green alliance". Get it. The nutjobs who want to close the taconite plants and steel mills.

Also the USW recently formed an alliance (merger?) with an international union. Their self stated goal? To "fight international capitalism". Not making this up.

Steel workers have to be some of the dumbest people in the world. Okay, I can't say that as I knew a few a while back. Maybe ignorant is a better word.

Governor Palin has similar executive bona fides as Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George Bush did before they became POTUS. How does any thinking person (i.e., persons outside of the MSM) believe that Obama's experience is preferable?

re: #78 Ringo the Gringo

I've organized a few block parties in my day, does that make me a "community organizer"?

sounds like it to me.....and a good one at that !

re: #87 FrogMarch

Note to community organizers; She was referring to THIS.

Thanks for reposting that. What organizers are working on rebuilding that neighborhood, that 0bama and his friends destroyed?

I think "community organizers" should rebrand themselves with a more dynamic-sounding name; something like... oh, I dunno... "action groups"! Yeah, that's the ticket!

/deliberate hyperbole, 'kay?

I thought at first that site was a clever joke.

We have community organizers here in my city of 50,000. We call them the Mayor, City Councilmen, precinct workers. We call them the concerned people who make it a point to show up at Council meetings, School Board meetings, assorted hearings, and the like. We call them the folks who regularly and thoughtfully vote. We call them citizens.

Professional "community organizers" are simply the forward infiltrators of socialism.

John Raskin, the "organizer" of Community Organizers of America perfectly illustrates why so-called "community organizers" are held in disdain by many. He comes off as a well-intentioned useful idiot. Not surprisingly, he associates with leftists. Just another guy trying his hardest to achieve a socialist utopia.

Do I hold most community organizers in disdain? Yep.
They exist by perpetuating victimhood. Their funding is typically from taxpayer coffers, directly or indirectly. Many insist on playing the guilt card to shame others into empathy for their cause. But most notably, they insist that people are largely helpless, are under the thumb of "the man" and their only hope is a government solution.

Al Capone did a little community organizin' in Chicago back a few years I heard......Only back then they called them hoodlums.

Comments on the organizersfightback site (see tiny link below the body text):

As someone else said on another blog…
Jesus Christ was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor.
Perhaps “good Christian” Sarah Palin should consider that.

-- and --

The community organizers are the real public SERVANTS. Palin and her kind are just power-grabbers.

-- and one lone brave soul --

She’s right. You guys are just rabble rousers who accomplish nothing, and have no real responsibilities.

Yada yada yada yada....blah blah blah blah...move along and get a life...

re: #44 right_on_target

What is a community organizer, REALLY?

they go into a troubled neighborhood, attempt to 'organize' the people by pointing out grievances they promise to correct. they rally the people, start the marches, protests, register voters, seek 'direct results' (money) from local gov't., state, feds.
once the community organizer has power and money they can really start the shake downs. often little of that money (aid) ends up going to the local people.
who end up abandoned.

re: #100 pat

Why do they want the government to fix it? The rigid, bureaucratic response of a government is the last way to fix anything!

Final-Night Protest Threat

ST. PAUL — Police are preparing for a last-ditch protest by anti-war demonstrators threatening to take to the streets Thursday night during John McCain’s presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.

The stage was set for a showdown as a coalition of protesters told reporters a day earlier that it is ready to violate the expiration of its permit — now limited to a rally at the state Capitol between 5-6 p.m. ET Thursday — and march to the Xcel Energy Center, site of the GOP convention.

Break out the rubber bullets and nightsticks.

re: #71 Ringo the Gringo

The United Steel Workers are not happy with Palin introducing her husband as a Union member...

USW Statement on John McCain's VP Choice - LINK : [Link: www.usw.org...]

Interesting, if the Republicans get in and build the military we need that will mean cutting lots of steel. Good union American jobs.

re: #108 maddogg

Al Capone did a little community organizin' in Chicago back a few years I heard......Only back then they called them hoodlums.

So did David Barksdale. Same city, different group.

OK, here's the thing. I wish 0bambi and Biden were really interested in the middle class, the working class, any class, for anything more than their votes. I think there are a lot of bad trends in the economy, but these two guys are senators, what have they DONE? Nada. What are they proposing, really? A few lines on the campaign web site do not convince me. What does their PARTY really propose? Nothing, that I can see. Just talk from a couple of blowhards.

Now, they may have a tiny point, in that we don't even get the hot air from McCain. Palin, talked all about working people, but she's mostly comfortable with things, it seems, she's not proposing anything huge, just fairness and clear thinking. I'll take that. But yeah, I do feel that McCain is a bit disconnected on the economy.

re: #100 pat

From article

Pretty fancy descrition of intermeddling parasites. .

They are more than parasitical they are there to drum up hatreds and chaos in many cases. Good riddance

Combing through my "souvenirs" from Denver and I found this little scrap of xeroxed paper with "chants" for anarchists to say on various marches (handed out to appropriate-looking anarcho-trustafarians during riots, such as myself). Here's one I never heard being said in person, but is worth presenting here:

Call: It's your money; your greed; your company
Response: It's your fault, it's your fault, it's your fault.

"It's your fault, it's your fault, it's your fault" kinda sums up the entire left-wing weltauungshung.
(Yeah, I almost certainly misspelled that. No way I'm going to look it up.)
...

Another:

Call: You can put our friends in jail
Response: But we will drive the final nail!

re: #113 jorline

Final-Night Protest Threat

Break out the rubber bullets and nightsticks.

I guess you could call these asshats "Community Organizers".

Another victim group brought to you by the Modern Democrat Party.

Do community organizers do something other than use poor people as human shields to lobby for socialist policies?

re: #118 zombie

Organized anarchists.... HEH!

Interesting...

The Sun says that some 30 million people tuned in for Sarah Palin's speech. The most ever for a Vice Presidential candidate.

#87 Frog March
"Obama's Katrina"
I like it!

re: #116 itellu3times

I wish 0bambi and Biden were really interested in the middle class, the working class, any class

Better still, let's move away from thinking about divvying up society into "classes" altogether.

There is no such thing as some monolothic, static "working class" in this country.

No horse pulling a carriage ever wore blinders as big as the ones worn by the people gleefully posting their support on that site.

Some "community organizers" do good things. The ones who run food banks and soup kitchens fall into this category.

But for every one who does something worthwhile, there's another "community organizer" who actually harms their community. Al Sharpton and the Tawana Brawley mess comes to mind. Then there are groups like La Raza and Mecha, who are deliberately trying to tear the Southwest apart and retard the education of Latino students.

So far as I know, Barry can't point to any worthwhile accomplishments as a "community organizer". He was on the board of an educational organization that spent $50 million dollars to accomplish absolutely nothing...which doesn't sound like an "actual responsibility" to me.

William Ayers was a community organizer.

re: #101 Dave the.....

You are absolutely correct, that is a fine assessment. The top ranks of all the big unions are occupied by the old style Wobblies and Communists.

So... lemme get this straight, people who attempt to get stir up political power to "challenge the mayor's office" or whatever, people who move into a "community" (but are not part of it), then rile everyone up for some perceived wrong, basically politicize a neighborhood, or ethnic group for some purpose that didn't really exist before they pointed it out... these are the "heroes" working hard for America? They remind me more of union agitators "wandering" into factories straight off the plane from New Jersey.

And by the way, by all accounts, Obama was a fruitless community organizer. He apparently spent all his community organizing time running for the state legislature.

re: #123 Dirk Diggler

Interesting...

The Sun says that some 30 million people tuned in for Sarah Palin's speech. The most ever for a Vice Presidential candidate.

Sexy sells.

So, nice to see Rosario Dawson at the RNC. I might have to put her on my "list" now.

/Friends reference

re: #93 lifeofthemind

Community organizers are people who show up at a fire and either pour gasoline on it or start moving the ladder while the real professional responders are standing on it. They are paid interns for political machines or act as uneducated and unlicensed ministers without any of the messy impediments of religion or responsibility.

IOW, freakin' troublemakers.

re: #124 UFO TOFU

#87 Frog March
"Obama's Katrina"
I like it!

And unlike the real Katrina, it's not a natural disaster. It's entirely man-made.

re: #121 RememberSekhmet?

Do community organizers do something other than use poor people as human shields to lobby for socialist policies?

probably not.
it's abt. money and power for the organization.
they don't value the individual.

re: #127 pat

William Ayers was a community organizer.

Tookie Williams (founder of The Crips) was a very 'successful' community organizer.

In the former (?) Soviet Union, political commissars were deployed to various "communities" - they were the Communist party's tentacles in an agrarian society. Are community organizers the same? I know its the community organizers that rally the old folks up to go vote - for the Democrats in my town. Do they push the big government, nanny state to their communities (I know the answer)?
Soviet Community Organizer ;)

Man...these community organizers have really gotten me worried now

/

re: #127 pat

William Ayers was a community organizer.

that says it all.

re: #30 right_wing2

Latest Gallup poll shows the Obamessiah up by 7. Rasmussen, including 'leaners' shows a 5 point lead by the Messiah. Let's send him back to Chicago!

It will be a few days before Palin effect is measured.

In the meantime, intrade gives immediate market based feedback. By that measure, things turned rather sharply last night - McCain now 42 Obama 58.

re: #125 Occasional Reader

Better still, let's move away from thinking about divvying up society into "classes" altogether.

There is no such thing as some monolothic, static "working class" in this country.

OK so they're dynamic, but the middle-class salaryman category in this country has almost vanished, compared to even twenty years ago, and I see this as a problem. Automation and outsourcing are the two big changes. Only government, goes on pretty much as it was. BTW, although I see the situation as a problem, I do not really have a solution to offer, either. But in general, outsourcing is more of a problem than either party has acknowledged. I'd be happy just for an open and informed discussion.

Please tell me this comment is tongue in cheek:

"how dare she MOCK the symbolic columns from Obama’s speech that were clearly intended to commemorate the accomplishments of MLK on its anniversary. Is nothing sacred?"

re: #101 Dave the.....

You have remember this about teh USW.
They are working now with enviromentalist wackos. They call it the "blue-green alliance". Get it. The nutjobs who want to close the taconite plants and steel mills.

Also the USW recently formed an alliance (merger?) with an international union. Their self stated goal? To "fight international capitalism". Not making this up.

Steel workers have to be some of the dumbest people in the world. Okay, I can't say that as I knew a few a while back. Maybe ignorant is a better word.

Well, I think the rank-and-file are different from the executives of the unions. The union takes the dues and spends them on whatever the hell they want to, usually causes counter to the beliefs of the rank-and-file.

re: #137 fishbob

Man...these community organizers have really gotten me worried now
/

I know. They look positively ferocious in that photo at the top of that blog!
/

re: #111 nyc redneck

Which is exactly what happened to the folks that Hugh Briss "worked" for. His big thing was to get organized to get rid of the asbestos in the buildings. It is still there. Every little bit of it.

Community organizer - definition - A self appointed leach who sucks money away from the people he is trying to "help". May create a bogus crisis and demand action with will divert money to people in his political establishment.

Call the waambulance, the community organizers have been outed as what they are.

Organizers knock on doors, attend community meetings, visit churches and synagogues and mosques, and work with unions and civic groups and block associations ...

The key here is that they knock, attend, visit, and assist. That is somewhat different from "Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States", "he shall have Power to Grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States", "Power ... to make Treaties", "appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States", etc. etc.

And just as an aside, the Constitution favors John McCain

Section 4 - Republican government

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

re: #127 pat

William Ayers was a community organizer.

He organized components into working bombs.

re: #83 Honorary Yooper

Or --/sarcasm here/maybe it's because he lives in Alaska and that doesn't count.

Mighty chilly up here in yooperland --furnace kicked in this morning! Two days ago I was in the lake swimming but alas......if it gets any colder I might have dig out the snow shovel.........ha ha.

re: #139 karmic_inquisitor

What does that mean about intrade?

Seriously, I don't appriciate it when The Onion gets its stories in the mainstream...it just confuses people.

This is from The Onion, right?

Folks I'm a community organizer. l'll have you all know that in between my time on LGF, my long afternoon naps, and frequent beer runs I provide invaluable services to my community.

So, where does one find these "community organizers" (i.e., rabble-rousing socialists)? In communities - in cities devastated by the policies of liberal/leftist-run communities (e.g., Chicago, Detroit, New York, San Francisco). These are places with high property and sales taxes, arcane zoning laws, "living wage" requirements for businesses, high crime, and crummy schools, all brought about by clueless "good government" types which have served to drive out businesses and middle-class home owners. Most, if not all of these "organizers" take their ideas and tactics from the late neo-Marxist organizer, Chicagoan Saul Alinsky.

re: #9 Cindermutha

Why do they write in the same 5th grade style as the drive-by trolls?

Question asked - question answered.

asshat-france just hit -250...

re: #27 mj

This was actually being promoted yesterday on CNN by Roland Martin ( is that his name)? He said both his parents are 'community organizers" and Palin was going to hear from them across the country.

He was serious.

Which just goes to show you how un-serious CNN News has become.

Here's Roland Martin's rejoiner about community organizers
on CNN last night. What a hoot:

re: #116 itellu3times

McCain's said that he doesn't really get economics.

My main hope is that he has the good sense to come out in front of the convention and say what amounts to, "My campaign finance reform was a combination of a pious hope and a self-righteous, finger-wagging sermon. It didn't work. I've learned from that."

re: #69 itellu3times

Depends, on who they were organizing, and what for, what else is on the resume, and what you're hiring for. In some places, jobs like that are considered like spending time in the peace corps, or missionary work, and like that. Idealistic, resume *enhancing*. I suspect that's how 0bambi saw it. Heck, it worked for him.

Back in the day when I prepared tax returns we used to joke about some of the people that were self-employed consultants. We would joke that these people were really unemployed. Many of them had no real career and they really made little money as "consultants" but they still insisted on calling themselves "consultants" without anything else to describe the job they do. I, perhaps unjustifiably, put "community organizers" in this group. It seems to me that a community organizer should be able to really describe what they do exactly.

(cross-posted from a prior thread)

Post-Palin Wrapup -- #363 by annefrance

-250 and climbing

/blatant advertisement

Man, the community organizers are really pissed off! Now they won't vote for McCain/Palin.

....oh, wait.

re: #139 karmic_inquisitor
Hey karmic!

It will be a few days before Palin effect is measured.

In the meantime, intrade gives immediate market based feedback. By that measure, things turned rather sharply last night - McCain now 42 Obama 58.

So you're telling us that intrade gave Palin horrible reviews?!? Don't know who intrade really is, but if they think Obama GAINED from Palin's speech, they're wrong.

This insanity reminds me of Tiger Woods' apology to all spastic people.

re: #72 kynna

Here we go. Community organizers.

A million updings for that - especially as there's a Palin in it ...

re: #151 Thunderbottom

You are right. I don't recall seeing "community organizers" anywhere but large cities run by Democrats and full of people that they pander to...hmmm, you might be onto something.

re: #148 newsjunkie_ky

What does that mean about intrade?

Sorry for not explaining it.

intrade trades futures contracts on the outcome of future events.

This link gives you the realtime price of John McCain getting elected president. You can pay 42 bucks right now for the contract - if he is elected, you will get 100 bucks. If he isn't you get 0.

It isn't betting because there is someone selling you that contract who thinks that s/he is going to walk away with your 42 bucks.

Anyway, intrade trading has had McCain down below 40 for much of last week and now he is near 42. He hit 42.5 this morning which was a new high for him (he wasn't that high when he was tied in the polls with BHO 2 weeks ago).

So there is a decent sentiment swing in favor of McCain.

We had a community organizer here that won a free garage. built and supplied,it was a contest people submitted names of people who had done something worthy over the last year.

This guy submitted his own story and won!

re: #29 deadman

I searched the web and am still not clear on what community organizer does. How is it different from the old Chicago style "ward heeler"? Other than the former specializing in disposing of federal money.

Community organizers are like gauleiters. It's pure socialist BS. They're not teachers, they're not nurses, they're not even social workers. Don't let them get away with pretending they are.

She should say

"I'm sorry. I was way off base. You are all Presidential material"

Yes, BHO used his "community organizer" experience well when the people in several of the Rezmar run housing project were freezing in the harsh 1997 winter:

"By the time Obama entered the state Senate in 1997, the buildings were beginning to deteriorate. In January 1997, the city sued Rezmar for failing to provide adequate heat in a South Side building in the middle of an unusually cold winter. It was one of more than two dozen housing-complaint suits filed by the city against Rezmar for violations at its properties." Link

All he "organized" was lunches with slimebag and future convicted felon Tony Rezko (who founded Rezmar in 1989).

Maybe, just maybe, there are community organizers who are good at what they do out there but I don't think BHO was ever one of them.

re: #154 Fat Jolly Penguin

Wanna bet she is the alter-ego of Andrea Mitchell?

re: #160 realwest

Hey karmic!

So you're telling us that intrade gave Palin horrible reviews?!? Don't know who intrade really is, but if they think Obama GAINED from Palin's speech, they're wrong.

Sorry for not giving context - intrade is showing a +2.5 point improvement, and it is climbing as Palin's speech is getting covered by the press as a success.

The prices don't reflect poll numbers per se - they exaggerate them, frankly.

McCain is still behind, but this may be the last week where you can buy McCain for under 50.

re: #162 yma o hyd

A million updings for that - especially as there's a Palin in it ...

LOL. I didn't even realize. It's like it was meant to be. Heh.

re: #143 NoSubmission

I know. They look positively ferocious in that photo at the top of that blog!
/

yes they do! kind of like the rest of the crowd we saw in Denver a few days ago.

You see that sign "We Need Affordable Housing" ?

My response: "Newsflash.....so do I, thats why I'm saving my money"

Anybody else smell a rat?
John Raskin, founder of Community Organizers of America
[Link: www.actnowny.org...]

Of course, if communities were run well by whatever governmental body oversees them AND by the citizens of that community participating in their community, they would not NEED organizers to come in and tell them how to make their communities better.

It's another one of those organizations that CANNOT achieve their goal because then communities would not need them.

I must especially approve highly of the "Community Organizers" (read: White people with too much free time) comparison with themselves to Jesus Christ.

I ... What.... Could you say that in the same sentence you say Palin is "out of touch"?

.. Dumbfounded.... Baffled.. you.. Jesus Christ? ... I .. I .. really? REALLY? JESUS?

Come the FUCK on!

re: #168 GreenBear

Yes, BHO used his "community organizer" experience well when the people in several of the Rezmar run housing project were freezing in the harsh 1997 winter:

"By the time Obama entered the state Senate in 1997, the buildings were beginning to deteriorate. In January 1997, the city sued Rezmar for failing to provide adequate heat in a South Side building in the middle of an unusually cold winter. It was one of more than two dozen housing-complaint suits filed by the city against Rezmar for violations at its properties." Link

All he "organized" was lunches with slimebag and future convicted felon Tony Rezko (who founded Rezmar in 1989).

Maybe, just maybe, there are community organizers who are good at what they do out there but I don't think BHO was ever one of them.

You know, I tried to post this comment over at the community organizer fights back site and they deleted it.

Never would have seen that one coming...

I guess it disturbed their little foot-stamping tantrum at "Barracuda Sarah".

All I can ask is who next for the little lady?

Wow. Not only did she offend community organizers, but probably every black person in America.

Offending probably every black person in America, she insulted Barack Obama's job as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago by claiming her mayoral job was like it, "except with actual responsibility."

Nastay link

re: #37 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

They dont have any, they only have causes and agendas. If they fail, they can always fall back on "Well, I tried."

"Every 'great cause' begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." - Anonymous

Racketeers - that's what these people are.

re: #174 adilo

Anybody else smell a rat?
John Raskin, founder of Community Organizers of America
[Link: www.actnowny.org...]

A man who organizes community organizers for a living. Everyone can just go to Yes Minister on Youtube and learn about the Ministry of Administrative Affairs.

re: #178 redstateredneck

Wow. Not only did she offend community organizers, but probably every black person in America.

Nastay link

Does it matter, isn't Obama getting a 90% vote from the black community? Who is racist again?

“I have ‘actual responsibilities,’” said Jacqueline del Valle, a community organizer in the Bronx.
Which are?..Seems to me it doesn't go past " fix those problems and make government respond to their day-to-day concerns....knock on doors, attend community meetings, visit churches and synagogues and mosques, and work with unions and civic groups and block associations to help ordinary people build power and counter the influence of self-interested insiders and highly paid lobbyists at all levels of government."
Not without an agenda, I'll tell ya.

re: #181 Celtic Templar

it's not racist to base your vote on skin color.

although it's awfully, AWFULLY stupid. Poor black people who feel victimized by the government should really look beyond Obama's skin color ASAP. He is the embodiment of Government control.

Sarah Palin, although a white devil, probably has more in common with them than they realize.

ACORN must be ticked off they have been outed. Sweetness and Light is running a series on Alinsky's community organizer. Yes, it's just about what you think, indoctrination camp for the indoctrinators. Recruiting the next Brown Shirts. who wouldn't be proud to have that on their record.

re: #180 lifeofthemind

A man who organizes community organizers for a living. Everyone can just go to Yes Minister on Youtube and learn about the Ministry of Administrative Affairs.

Is that anything like the Ministry of Silly Walks?

re: #154 Fat Jolly Penguin

asshat-france just hit -250...

I'm telling you..It would be so cool to have a hall of shame so we could revisit this super effort by asshat france in the distant future..
France's bronze head should be in the left wing of the hall...

re: #7 NoSubmission

as well as every governor between the mississippi and the rocky mountains and Alaska and Hawaii

re: #38 lifeofthemind

Soon to trot out:
The National Association of Serving Community ORganizers will rally and demand respect. Obama will attend a vegie barbecue and Vespa race to build solidarity with his fellow NASCOR Dads.

Who's bringing the arugula?

re: #187 HoosierHoops

I'm telling you..It would be so cool to have a hall of shame so we could revisit this super effort by asshat france in the distant future..
France's bronze head gamey troll buttocks should be in the left wing of the hall...

Fixed it.

re: #178 redstateredneck

Wow. Not only did she offend community organizers, but probably every black person in America.

Nastay link

Well, maybe not every black person.

Check out Zo Man

Zo Man is still with Sarah and takes on Duddy, uh, Diddy...

Very funny and straight to heart.

re: #180 lifeofthemind

A man who organizes community organizers for a living. Everyone can just go to Yes Minister on Youtube and learn about the Ministry of Administrative Affairs.

Is that anything like the Ministry of Silly Walks?

Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

re: #54 jorline

I posted this last night, but I can't remember who said it now.

They made the comment about wanting to see Biden and Romney debate.
They said it would be like a fight between the biggest loud mouth in the bar and the bar owner.

Red State Update.

}:(     [This oneshows that Toby Keith is a Dhimmicrat ... ]

I just tried to submit a comment at their site - wouldn't go through - must have turned it off.

Too many lizards clicking through and setting them straight?

re: #183 so.cal.swede

it's not racist to base your vote on skin color.

although it's awfully, AWFULLY stupid. Poor black people who feel victimized by the government should really look beyond Obama's skin color ASAP. He is the embodiment of Government control.

Sarah Palin, although a white devil, probably has more in common with them than they realize.

I don't agree. I'm voting for McCain because he is white? Are you kidding me? That is not racist? Colorist?

Serious question for any takers.

I am dusting through the threads.

Can't get to some links about community organizers.

If someone in the community is an organizer, who signs the paycheck?

re: #194 ronaldusmagnus

I just tried to submit a comment at their site - wouldn't go through - must have turned it off.

Too many lizards clicking through and setting them straight?

No, just our comments.

I saw at least 20 comments go up and had mine deleted for not being properly "organized" I guess.

I notice that small town mayors are not up in arms over The One's statements denigrating and belittling their posts. Perhaps they're all too busy working to notice the slight.

re: #192 adilo

Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

Well, we know community organizers stay away from the Natural Guard.

re: #196 formercorpsman

Sweetness and Light is doing a series on Saul Alinsky Organizers, the model for ACORN, which is where Obama worked for three years while he was organizing. Community Organizing is a semaphore for workers revolution, which then means Communism.

re: #3 NoSubmission

Do the community organizers need a community organizer now?

Just askin'.

hahahahahhahahahhahaha

re: #156 Dianna

McCain's said that he doesn't really get economics.
My main hope is that he has the good sense to come out in front of the convention and say what amounts to, "My campaign finance reform was a combination of a pious hope and a self-righteous, finger-wagging sermon. It didn't work. I've learned from that."

Obama doesn't get economics either, but he claims he does. He doesn't know what he doesn't know. Dangerous.

Hey!
I've been a ''community organizer'' for years in my city.
Guess what?
Sarah Palin is absolutely right.
I could walk away at any time.
But, over the years I have helped get rid of 6 or 7 drug dealers, an illegal gang-oriented gun dealer, the lead paint out of 80 units worth of apartments and helped keep gangs from getting near children (to hold/move drugs for them) on their way to and from school via moms stationed all along the routes to the gang targeted school.
So, while it's all been worthwhile, I could walk away at any time!
Sarah is right, 0bama is a liar.

re: #198 calcajun

I notice that small town mayors are not up in arms over The One's statements denigrating and belittling their posts. Perhaps they're all too busy working to notice the slight.

not just working, but organizing their communities

re: #196 formercorpsman

Usually WE do. The taxpayer.

re: #197 GreenBear

They're definitely squelching any dissenting opinions. I am watching as my comments, which were very mildly critical of their thesis, are never coming out of moderation despite more recent posts coming through.

Expected but disappointing...

re: #198 calcajun

I notice that small town mayors are not up in arms over The One's statements denigrating and belittling their posts. Perhaps they're all too busy working to notice the slight.

Well, their "community organizers" have to tell them what's going on first before they can do anything.

CO's are the lifeblood of the American Small Town Experience, don't you know.

Of course they replaced the Little Old Ladies Running a Bake Sale Federation which lacked the federal funding...

re: #174 adilo

Anybody else smell a rat?
John Raskin, founder of Community Organizers of America
[Link: www.actnowny.org...]

Why would a PAC such as Community Organizers of America have a website that is registered by proxy unless the site is a scam. Anybody donating on that page has to be a fool.

I see a lot of bs on resumes sent to me after I post a help wanted ad for my small business on Craigslist. Never have I seen "community organizer" and even if I did, that resume would go straight to the trash bin. I can handle "statistical accountability technician" for a movie theater ticket taker, but this community organizer shtick sounds like the epitome of an inflated job description, and frankly, one that oozes with ultra liberal big government nanny state overtones.

Of course, even after reading this article and the newly posted website of these community organizers, I STILL have no idea just what in the hell it is they supposedly do besides knocking on doors in the community to get people to go to community meetings to organize community functions in the community.

No wonder Obama did this, it's all talk. My hunch is that these organizers cannot even fathom how anyone outside of their communities doesn't have a clue about their activities. Notice to the communities: When you can send me a resume that tells me you know how to connect servers over vpns for example instead of chit chatting with neighbors about how bad and unfair the world is, then you've got a shot at a real job.

Maybe I've missed this, but who in the hell employs a community organizer?

Who signed Obama's paycheck when he was a community organizer?

WTF?

re: #113 jorline

Final-Night Protest Threat

Break out the rubber bullets and nightsticks.

Palin has got them so scared that I fear at least one may sacrifice himself to a real bullet for martyrdom. They are that unhinged.

re: #96 Pigtown Water Dog

I just looked "community organizer" up in the OOH-Occupational Outlook Handbook: Result: ZERO results for occupations with that title.

Not recognized by the Bureau of Labor.

Maybe they need to get organized.

At first I thought the site was a parody. Then I realized it was real. Sad.

when will the mayors of all small towns across America hear an apology from the Obama campaign?

~crickets

Obambi FluffNstuff will be on Oreilly. And he will set the record straight on community organizers, without saying anything. Get ready. Here he comes. Oreilly will be awstruck and will fumble through it. I ain't plannin' on watching. I'm to the point where I can't stand the sight of The One.

Dear Mrs. Palin,
You have ruined me.

From their description it looks to me as if community organizers exist to clean up the messes of democrat city administrations. Well, at least their client list looks like the demonrat base.

re: #22 Right Brain

That was one of the questions I left at their website.

Who pays for Community Organizers? Is that a job that is paid for by our taxes?

Community Organizers = The People's Commissariats for Obama

re: #178 redstateredneck

Wow. Not only did she offend community organizers, but probably every black person in America.

Maybe the blacks won't vote for her now./

re: #14 Gordon Marock

What would happen if some Tibietian monks were to make one of their sand paintings? Or another group do the OMMMMM thing? How serene would things get?

Apparently, a community organizer is a Democratic job title for a person who is a political activist. Getting all those people to vote the way the Democrats want them to because they are not motivated enough to take the time to do any research of issues or candidates on their own. Something tells me I am paying for this with my taxes. Why am I paying for Democrats to mobilize bodies to vote against the very things I love about America?

Here's a quote from a former community organizer. I think it paints the picture quite clearly:

"As a former community organizer, I organized against mayors and local politicians exactly like Palin; unresponsive, out of touch and unconcerned with the real problems that their own constiuents face. If Palin is anything like those mayors (which she seems to be) then all organizers are going to have to work extra hard to hold her, and the officials like her, accountable."
[Link: organizersfightback.wordpress.com...]

From Jorlene's post,

"“Students in this country are angry. We’re angry because it’s us that are asked to fight and die in this immoral and unjust war,”

Who the heck it this person. Obviously someone stuck in the 60s. Follow closely, idiot...v.o.l.u.n.t.e.e.r a.r.m.y

Stupid.

I hope the first thing Palin does as America's first woman Vice President and soon to be America's first President is to cut the budget for Activist Community Organizers from the federal money that is surely being spent on this crap.

Ask Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson about community organizing, AKA extortion. Come to think of it, the people "organized" in those shoddy housing projects the Obama helped his pal Rezko to scam deserve an apology.

Just for giggles I checked out the site. This is not going to keep me awake. Genuine, ground-up volunteers hate these "organizers."

re: #222 WinterCat

Apparently, a community organizer is a Democratic job title for a person who is a political activist. Getting all those people to vote the way the Democrats want them to because they are not motivated enough to take the time to do any research of issues or candidates on their own. Something tells me I am paying for this with my taxes. Why am I paying for Democrats to mobilize bodies to vote against the very things I love about America?

Here's a quote from a former community organizer. I think it paints the picture quite clearly:

"As a former community organizer, I organized against mayors and local politicians exactly like Palin; unresponsive, out of touch and unconcerned with the real problems that their own constiuents face. If Palin is anything like those mayors (which she seems to be) then all organizers are going to have to work extra hard to hold her, and the officials like her, accountable."
[Link: organizersfightback.wordpress.com...]

Eek! It's worse than I thought. I suppose if someone does this as a volunteer and is otherwise gainfully employed, ok. But you're right, this is starting to sound like these "organizers" are only feasting off my wallet engaged in far left partisan activities.

It's starting to look like the DNC made a big mistake going after Palin's experience as it has only highlighted The One's deficiencies in the job arena.

Organizers...whiners....same difference.

A good article from City Journal written over 5 years ago but still relevant:

ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities

re: #227 mfarmer1

If they are feasting out of the tax troff (and I will bet they are) they are surely most likely 1) democrats and 2) leftist democrats 3) mobilizing voters to vote against the things that I want rather than mobilizing people to get off their butts and get jobs. I am taking a wild guess here but I have a real strong feeling that I am correct.

Anyone have insights to the contrary?

re: #223 guzziguy

From Jorlene's post,

"“Students in this country are angry. We’re angry because it’s us that are asked to fight and die in this immoral and unjust war,”

Who the heck it this person. Obviously someone stuck in the 60s. Follow closely, idiot...v.o.l.u.n.t.e.e.r a.r.m.y

Stupid.

War has always been a business for the young, but it is also a great way to great all that experience before entering the private sector and get an education as a tiny "thank you" from the people. Many credit the military for giving them a greater vision of themselves and the world.

A lot of countries have mandatory service for their young people but I doubt they get the same caliber of people that our volunteer force has. I has seen quite a few shiftless, wayward kids enter the armed forces as a way to simply get out, as a last resort. Then, miraculously, they find purpose and direction and actually become worthwhile human beings, even if they don't stay in.

The service is not for everyone and, if it isn't, get out as soon as your hitch is up and become a community organizer. Or wait until ol' Barry gets elected and join his Jungen Corps...

re: #153 buzzsawmonkey

re: #153 buzzsawmonkey

He didn't accomplish "absolutely nothing." According to some of the recent spinoff links, the Annenberg money accomplished the funding of programs creating "race consciousness" and "ethnic consciousness"--i.e., social division and fragmentation--and undermined funding of programs that threatened to teach hard subjects like math or history or English.

"Nothing" in terms of improved academic performance, which was what the Annenberg initiative was supposed to be all about. But you're right...he did manage to sow racial division and retard true education reform.

I understand that the idea of funding the "Chicago Algebra Project" was just too hot a potato for he and Ayers to support it.

I, like others, was simply going to ask WTF is a "community organizer" anyway, but by the time I got this far in the comments, I realized there is another word for them - parasites.

re: #216 guzziguy

From their description it looks to me as if community organizers exist to clean up the messes of democrat city administrations. Well, at least their client list looks like the demonrat base.

Look at the most liberal cities in America. The more liberal they are, the more likely the residents in that city are to be robbed, raped and or murdered. The higher their taxes are, the crappier their schools are. It does look like community organizers are the flies on the shit wagon of liberalism.

re: #233 exredtory

I, like others, was simply going to ask WTF is a "community organizer" anyway, but by the time I got this far in the comments, I realized there is another word for them - parasites.

So, then we're agreed on the new term "community tick"?

I find all the hullaballo concerning the title Community Organizer to be a little silly.

It is a legitimate volunteer position and in many communities an important job that really needs filling. A neighbor attempting to organize a Neighborhood Watch would be a legitimate Community Organizer as would the local Clean and Beautiful Committee. And it isn't strictly for Democrats or liberals as I have done both of these jobs and some other volunteer positions. It is a leadership job starting, organizing, and running these platforms, as well as trying to scrounge funding and managing it. Is it equivalent to a Mayors position or even close to equal? No, and it would be absurd to equate the two.

Would I count it as employment experience? Certainly depending on the job the applicant is trying for. Would I count it as leadership experience for the position of President of the United States? No. And I think by doing so, he is minimizing the position of POTUS.

Community Organizer: read "Activist."

This is in keeping with Obama's foundational principles of Liberation Theology (Marxism dressed-up in Christian clothing):

1. The State is "god."
2. Personal Salvation becomes the Collective/Group (identity politics) being liberated (saved) through the State/God recognizing and providing all of our needs, equally. This is seen as "justice."
3. Evangelism becomes Activism.
4. Policies/Doctrines are all "this world" oriented (Political Correctness) in order to -
5. Build Heaven on Earth, a Man-made, global utopia.

There is more than a "culture war" taking place here.

Hmm, back in my day these people were know as social workers. They always have alot of words and very few actions. This is just a fancy phrase for all the libs out there who care more about the "great unwashed", as my sainted Granny always said. This is like welfare with lipstick!

In the mean time, B wrote 2 autobiographies, about a man nobody knew, so maybe being a community organizer didn't pay all that well.

ACORN's good at that voter registration fraud thing, too.

I haven't read the whole thread ... but did someone else figure out that there's no such thing (I yahoo'd) as "Community Organizers of America"?

/group formed last night at 11:02 PM Eastern?
//by the Obama camp? ;-)

re: #229 twincitiesgirl

It promotes a 1960s-bred agenda of anti-capitalism, central planning, victimology, and government handouts to the poor. As a result, not only does it harm the poor it claims to serve; it is also a serious threat to the urban future.

Thanks for the great link. Very eye opening.

re: #226 Pullus Iulius

Just for giggles I checked out the site. This is not going to keep me awake. Genuine, ground-up volunteers hate these "organizers."

Post on it. Take them on. It's already started. They'll take the whole thing down in a matter of hours. They are the f*cking middleman in the cesspool of liberalism.

re: #47 right_wing2

According to Wiki:
"Community organizing is a process by which people are brought together to act in common self-interest. 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 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."

Sounds like the PTA to me. What does a community organizer's daily schedule look like? Sit in meetings and make folks feel like someone important is listening?

The National Organization Of People Who Get Offended By Stuff and the Committee of Citizens Who Can't Make Intelligent Distinctions today demanded an apology from Sarah "Pull The Trigger 'Til The Gun Goes Click" Palin...

Get ready for a lot of headlines that essentially boil down to the above. The more attacks on Palin that lead down a blind alley of the left's own lies, the more attacks they will launch.

Reading some of these comments I can see why it was difficult to find volunteers to make the community a nicer place to live by doing such jobs as Adopt A Highway, library reader, and escort for elderly.

It seems these jobs are only for liberals, parasites, or ticks? Who knew?

My questions for community organizers:
1) Who pays you?
2) What are the pre-requsites for your job?
3) Who measures your job performance, and against what?
4) If a community organizer, say, didn't come into 'work' on time, who would fire them?
5) You are all commie demagogues, aren't you?

re: #244 Crusty

The National Organization Of People Who Get Offended By Stuff and the Committee of Citizens Who Can't Make Intelligent Distinctions today demanded an apology from Sarah "Pull The Trigger 'Til The Gun Goes Click" Palin...

Get ready for a lot of headlines that essentially boil down to the above. The more attacks on Palin that lead down a blind alley of the left's own lies, the more attacks they will launch.

Hey, if she was ticking off the lefties, how would we know she was making an impact.

I have found that you can often judge a person by the enemies they make. I think Sarah is scaring the right people. :)

re: #236 Outrider

Sounds like you approached organizing differently than the ACORN folks who use it to promote their political agenda. I too have done a good deal of community organizing without the moniker ... and without a cent of tax dollars and for issues that were not promoting the interests of one party over another. My complaint is when a community organizer uses my tax dollars to further the interests of an organization or political party.

Wonder how many of the hundreds of thousands of new voter names added to the rolls this election cycle list community organizer store fronts as their home address?

re: #223 guzziguy

From Jorlene's post,

"“Students in this country are angry. We’re angry because it’s us that are asked to fight and die in this immoral and unjust war,”

Who the heck it this person. Obviously someone stuck in the 60s. Follow closely, idiot...v.o.l.u.n.t.e.e.r a.r.m.y

Stupid.

No no, you don't understand. They wanted to join the army, but they weren't told they might actually have to do something more than act as 'global ambassadors', dealing with the aftermath of natural disasters.

re: #248 WinterCat

Sounds like you approached organizing differently than the ACORN folks who use it to promote their political agenda. I too have done a good deal of community organizing without the moniker ... and without a cent of tax dollars and for issues that were not promoting the interests of one party over another. My complaint is when a community organizer uses my tax dollars to further the interests of an organization or political party.

I agree 100%. It is a job without a paycheck. And yes, a distinction needs to be made between the agendas for the volunteer work to start with.

From [Link: www.theobamafile.com...]

"One of Obama's early mentors in the Alinsky method was Mike Kruglik, who had this to say to an interviewer of The New Republic, about Obama:

"He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards. As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better."

The agitator's job, according to Alinsky, is first to bring folks to the "realization" that they are indeed miserable, that their misery is the fault of unresponsive governments or greedy corporations, then help them to bond together to demand what they deserve, and to make such an almighty stink that the dastardly governments and corporations will see imminent "self-interest" in granting whatever it is that will cause the harassment to cease.

In these methods, euphemistically labeled "community organizing," Obama had a four-year education, which he often says was the best education he ever got anywhere.

For three years Barack Obama was the director of Developing Communities Project, an institutionally based community organization on Chicago’s far south side. He has also been a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, an organizing institute working throughout the Midwest."

What do you think angry mobs just happen? Heck no! It's a thankless job, but somebody has to sharpen the pitchforks, soak the torches in oil and gather up all the good throwing rocks.

re: #249 Billy Hank

And I wonder for whom they are being urged to vote.

Thanks Sarah for raising this important issue so that Americans can now see where their tax dollars need to be cut.

Sarah! Sarah! Sarah!

re: #251 Outrider

:)

Ya know the thing about listening to Rush is that you have to listen to the gawdawful local news breaks. They did a good job with the Gov's speech. Put in good clips (how could they not? There weren't any bad moments) but then they followed up with one of their reportersdemocrat activists quoting the Alaskan Wildlife Alliance (a reactionary, anti-hunting, leftist group) railing with nothing more than bile and no substance. Keep in mind, this was the reporter repeating their words, NOT a clip of the AWA saying it. KFI obviously couldn't just report the speech and let it stand. They had to get their Obama campaigning in.

They. Are. Terrified.

A bit more from [Link: www.theobamafile.com...]

"During this period, Obama worked at a Chicago housing project, Altgeld Gardens in 1985, where he refined his skills.

Here, Obama worked as an ethnic activist, helping the impoverished black community wring more money and services from the government. That government money was wrecking the morals of the housing-project residents seems obvious from his book, but Obama never comes out and says it. Numerous white moderates assume that a man of Obama’s superlative intelligence must be kidding when he espouses his cast-iron liberalism on race-related policies, but they don’t understand the emotional imperative of racial loyalty to him.

His mentor during this period was the veteran local agitator, Hazel Johnson, who disputes the version of events at Altgeld Gardens that Obama wrote of in his book and tells audiences at his political gatherings."

My retort to them:

Get over it! She was refering to Obama’s work as a community organizer not everyone as a whole. The way you all are acting I can bet this website is paid for by Barry or some one in his employ.

re: #245 Outrider

Reading some of these comments I can see why it was difficult to find volunteers to make the community a nicer place to live by doing such jobs as Adopt A Highway, library reader, and escort for elderly.

It seems these jobs are only for liberals, parasites, or ticks? Who knew?

A community organizer is not the same as a volunteer. You're obfuscating the issue.

Who pays you? What are the pre-requsites for your job? Who measures your job performance, and against what?

re: #259 Peter Verkooijen

Some answers from [Link: www.theobamafile.com...]

"The Chicago Period began in 1985, when some white leftists were looking for someone who could recruit in a black neighborhood in the south side of Chicago and Obama answered a help-wanted ad for a position as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) of the Calumet Community Religious Conference (CCRC) in Chicago. The "Project" was funded by Bill Ayers' Woods Fund.

Obama was 24 years old, unmarried, and according to his memoir, searching for a genuine African-American community.

Both the CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned how to "rub raw the sores of discontent," in Alinsky's words.

Alinsky viewed as supremely important the role of the organizer, or master manipulator, whose guidance was responsible for setting the agendas of the People’s Organization. "The organizer," Alinsky wrote, "is in a true sense reaching for the highest level for which man can reach -- to create, to be a 'great creator,' to play God.""

re: #258 steve

My retort to them:

Get over it! She was refering to Obama’s work as a community organizer not everyone as a whole. The way you all are acting I can bet this website is paid for by Barry or some one in his employ.

Sure Barry was "organizing" Tony Rezko with lunches downtown so that later Tony would help him get a sweet deal on the Obama Mansion, in between commiting felonies, of course (a slimebag has to have his priorities straight.)

re: #245 Outrider

Reading some of these comments I can see why it was difficult to find volunteers to make the community a nicer place to live by doing such jobs as Adopt A Highway, library reader, and escort for elderly.

It seems these jobs are only for liberals, parasites, or ticks? Who knew?

The reason we are against community organizer is it is a condescending, not to mention resume-padding, way of saying volunteer work. It also reeks of typical liberal elite condescension in thinking our communities are hopeless unless some enlightened snob comes along and helps us.

If Obama just read kids books and hung out with old folks, that's great! But a) that's not presidential qualifications, and b) something tells me that's not what he did.

Would anyone notice if a community organizer were to simply pack up and move away? If a mayor did that without any notice it would be all over the news.

re: #1 rawmuse

This is going to hurt their "walking around money".

did u watch the Wire too?

Rush Limbaugh has the best description of a community organizer:

A Community Agitator.

Fits those like Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton to a T.

re: #245 Outrider

Reading some of these comments I can see why it was difficult to find volunteers to make the community a nicer place to live by doing such jobs as Adopt A Highway, library reader, and escort for elderly.

It seems these jobs are only for liberals, parasites, or ticks? Who knew?

Those are volunteer part-time non-paying jobs and things which most good citizens do anyway in ADDITION to their regular jobs without making a big hullabaloo about it. Things such as Highway Adopters (small business owners), Library Readers (retired folks) and Elderly Escorts (Boy Scouts) are hardly career highlights on a resume for a presidential candidate.

re: #26 HelloDare

Jesus Christ actually did something. Meetings of cheap coffee and cookie crisps isn't the same as running a state- or being the savior of mankind.
Just saying.