[tripleblack]

OK, its a shame that lots of hard working volunteers around the country working as "community organizers" are getting lumped in with the likes of Obama and ACORN.

This is one of those cases where having a sense of humor about people poking fun at someone who once did something only remotely related to what YOU do (and in a thoroughly shady way) means that your job title catches some flak.

If you're smart, you blame the trouble-maker, NOT the society at large who find mirth in comparing the relative merits of running a small town or organizing shady vote-buying schemes and fraudulent voter registration efforts.

Its too bad these guys are giving the honest efforts of good people a bad name, but that's the big leagues.

Michelle Malkin :: Townhall.com :: Why Obama's "Community Organizer" Days Are a Joke

[quote] 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.

...

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. [quote]

[GTeye]

Well it takes alot of organizing to plan all of the new government organizations that will be involved in completing the switch over of the American government to a socialist society.

The new American slogan under Obama will be - "Why work hard when someone else will?"

[white angel]

I got this email today.

[tripleblack]

Good stuff, Angel!

Also, I've been picking up some of Sarah's talking "Points".

Of course, the way she does it, those points are mounted on razor sharp hunting shafts!

Paul Greenberg :: Townhall.com :: Sarah's Night

"It was as if Somebody had set a table for her in the presence of her enemies. And she just walked out there and dined on them. With perfect table manners, of course. For her critics had put her in the best of positions for someone making her debut on the national stage: They'd made her an underdog. The unfairly maligned wife and mother. All she had to do was put them in their place, gently but firmly. Which she proceeded to do, like a lady coolly passing the cucumber sandwiches."

"Their only recourse is to jabber some more. (Just listen to 'em on NPR. They refuse to stop losing this fight.)"

"...she went out there and just niced 'em to death."

[tripleblack]

Good article about Obama's days working the streets for the Chicago bosses:

Byron York on Barack Obama & Community Organizing on National Review Online=