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Board Certified M.D. on Saturday, September 06, 2008 10:43:24 AM
Now that Lady Sarah from Alaska is getting reprimanded by the Obama Campaign for comminting the unspeakable... the sin of hurting the feelings of Community Organizers by wondering in front of a national audience how this qualifies Obama to be President it is interesting to learn that some Daily Kos people wondered the same thing months ago. Here is the timely perspective from the Confluence, a Hillary supporter and Daily Kos contributor wonders how Community Organizer experiences of a Barack H. Obama make him a match for Hillary Clinton's during the Democrat Party's Primary season last April in this post entitled Barack Obama: Community Organizer:
In terms of concrete accomplishments, Obama and “hundreds of other organizers” were not able to transform the South Side neighborhoods or bring in new industries to provide jobs. Obama’s most commonly cited achievement was in forcing the city to begin testing for asbestos in all city apartments. The work did have a powerful impact on Obama himself.
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“I can’t say we didn’t make mistakes, that I knew what I was doing,” Obama recalled three years ago to a boisterous convention of the still-active DCP. “Sometimes I called a meeting, and nobody showed up. Sometimes preachers said, ‘Why should I listen to you?’ Sometimes we tried to hold politicians accountable, and they didn’t show up. I couldn’t tell whether I got more out of it than this neighborhood.”
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It does appear that his history of community organizing is central to Obama’s identity, seemingly even more important to him than his work as a legislator. The mystery is how with all this community activity, Obama managed to remain ignorant of the fact that his benefactor, Antoin Rezko, wasn’t paying utility bills for his
tenents, many of whom lived in Obama’s IL state senate district.
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Thanks, Katiebird. I don’t understand it either. How in the world could people like Kennedy, Kerry, and Daschle think this is enough preparation for the presidency–even in “normal” times, much less with the huge problems we have now? They seem to think that the role of President is just to “inspire.” The guy doesn’t even inspire me, and obviously more than half of Democrats who have voted so far agree with me. I just don’t get it.