Posted on 09/08/2008 1:27:17 PM PDT by Nervous Tick
...But Obama did not decide only that "community organizing" was not for him. Judis reports the future senator took part in a September 1989 symposium in which he "rejected the guiding principles of community organizing: the elevation of self-interest over moral vision; the disdain for charismatic leaders and their movements; and the suspicion of politics itself." Later, Obama "would begin to construct a political identity for himself that was not simply different from his identity as a community organizer--but was, in fact, its very opposite."...
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"Creation Myth", the TNR article on which Taranto comments, was posted earlier on Free Republic, by Mojito: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076081/posts
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Are community organizers paid with taxpayers money?
If so, then it’s just a make work job for someone who couldn’t get hired in the real world.
Liberals like Obama revel in feeling good about themselves in their futile efforts to 'help the poor'. I'll call it just what it is: Helping the Poor Stay Poor Until H*ll Freezes Over.
In an on air radio interview about a year ago, David Horowitz said you can tell which cities and states are run by Democrats: Those which are the most crime ridden, impoverished, and are saddled with the highest unemployment and tax rates.
Thanks for the ping!
I've been waiting for someone to ask him exactly that question, "who was paying you", because he's been saying that he was working for the churches.................
Seems true.
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