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John Batchelor does a nice job writing about Bill Ayers . He claims Ayers is part of a group that also includes another blast from the past;Tom Hayden who are feverishly determined to run interferance for Obama over his relationship with Ayers during the Annenberg Challenge Project days . Obama's Plumbers - HUMAN EVENTS
BTW There is a community organizer named Curtis Sliwa .I can point to tangible accomplishments he has done that will positively affect the communities in a large number of cities around the country and the world long after he is gone. The Alliance of Guardian Angels
I find ;no matter how hard I search ,no accomplishment by B.O. during his time as a "Community Organizer". By his own admission he was ineffective . That is why he decided to leave the "profession" ,and persue his law degree.
I find ;no matter how hard I search ,no accomplishment by B.O. during his time as a "Community Organizer". By his own admission he was ineffective . That is why he decided to leave the "profession" ,and persue his law degree.
I'll post his accomplishments this afternoon after I eat lunch. He wasn't effective in that he didn't magically turn things around in the neighborhood where he worked. No one is effective as a community organizer unless they spend years there, and then only so much so. How long did it take Dorothy Day or Jane Addams???? A friend has been a night minister (along with other ministers and church members) in the Chicago inner city for decades and has barely scratched the surface of helping residents, prostitutes, drug dealers. And Obama was in one of the worst possible areas of South Side Chicago, trying to bring people together.
Listening. In a speech in February announcing his presidential bid, Obama said, "It was in these neighborhoods that I received the best education I ever had." His work, he added, "taught me a lot about listening to people as opposed to coming in with a predetermined agenda."
Today, the experiences at Altgeld Gardens echo throughout his campaign. His support last week for allowing Cuban-Americans to increase their contact with relatives in Cuba was an extension of his outreach to both friends and foes in Chicago. The same is true of his pledge to meet as president without preconditions with leaders of rogue nations such as Iran and North Korea. His critics called him naive, but his admirers say it was another example of Obama's commitment to seeking common ground.
After graduating from Columbia University in 1983 with a major in political science, Obama worked as a financial consultant in New York City. But he was bored—and drawn to public service. In 1985, he moved to Chicago to work with local churches organizing job training and other programs for poor and working-class residents of Altgeld Gardens, a public housing project where 5,300 African-Americans tried to survive amid shuttered steel mills, a nearby landfill, a putrid sewage treatment plant, and a pervasive feeling that the white establishment of Chicago would never give them a fair shake.
Jerry Kellman, a social activist who recruited Obama, recalls, "He was very bright, very articulate, very personable, and very idealistic," inspired by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolence. Kellman offered Obama a job at the annual salary of $10,000, and he threw in $2,000 so Obama could buy a ramshackle car to get around.
Obama was a stranger to the area but caught on quickly by showing humility and a strong work ethic. "We knew what was wrong in the community but we didn't know how to get something done about it," recalls Yvonne Lloyd, 78, who worked with Obama. Obama insisted on "staying in the background while he empowered us." By Obama's own admission, there were few big victories. But whether it was getting the city to fill potholes, provide summer jobs, or remove asbestos from the apartments or persuading the apartment managers to repair toilets, pipes, and ceilings, Obama encouraged residents to come up with their own priorities with the gentle admonition: "It's your community."
If you caught the interview or read the transcript you should know "the task from God" quote was badly distorted. She didn't claim it was, but as Abraham Lincoln suggested prayed that it was a task from God, as in let us pray that we're on God's side, not that God is on our side. There is a huge difference there.
It includes Hamas, Hizbolah, Al Qaeda, the PLO, the Taliban, FARC and all the other terrorists. It includes Castro, Chavez, Kim Gong Il, the Chinese leadership and Ahmadinejad.
We should not be basing our presidential choices on what outsiders, including our enemies, would like to see. If our enemies want Obama, it seems pretty clear to me that Obama is the LAST person we should vote for.
Elliot
Somehow i dont think the BBC survey included polling Osama bin Laden and his pals.
Jerry Kellman, a social activist who recruited Obama
perhaps that is the difference between Obama and Sliwa . Sliwa wasn't recruited and trained by a Saul Alinsky radical like Obama was .
This is what Obama wrote about community organizing in his first autobiography “When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn’t answer them directly,” “Instead, I’d pronounce on the need for change. Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds. Change in the Congress, compliant and corrupt. Change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed. Change won’t come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.”
Obviously he changed because now he is seeking to be the top of the top.
Altgeld Gardens are as bad today as when Obama was "organizing "there. In his book, he pretends he had a major role in redevelopment especially in asbestos removal .Reports I've read say he had a minor role at best in that..
Altgeld Gardens are as bad today as when Obama was "organizing "there.
That's because no one has kept up the organizing. Projects were abandoned and new ones weren't instituted. That's not Obama's fault. AG is no walk in the park.
from Wiki --
"Altgeld Gardens' boundaries are 130th Street on the north and 138th Street on the south, from the Calumet Expressway on the east and the Calumet River on the west. Altgeld Gardens is located near numerous manufacturing plants, former steel mills, waste dumps and landfills. The residents have a growing concern about the number of deaths annually from cancer and other diseases that may be related to their environment."
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