Posted on 10/07/2008 3:37:07 PM PDT by PhilosopherStones
(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...
For fun, use it to Google "Barack Obama".
A lot of potentially interesting links that, unfortunately, no longer go anywhere.
Weird...pre-9/11
LeBron James was a little known high schooler
Pirates of the Caribbean was just a ride at Disney
They are not all dead.
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Some of those links that seem dead you can get to by using the wayback machine.
A Celebration of Black Alumni - Harvard Law SchoolSenator Barack Obama ‘91 · Franklin D. Raines ‘76 · Randall M. Robinson ‘70 ·
Hon. Judith W. Rogers ‘64 · Kurt L. Schmoke ‘76 · Deborah C. Wright ‘84 ...
http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/celebration/committee.shtml - View old version on the Internet Archive
Funny whose name comes right after Obammies
I wonder what would happen if Harvard had a "Celebration of White Alumni"?
Here is a very interesting article from 2001. It talks about his grandmother who lives in Hawaii. I read an article earlier today that said she is in Kenya. The article talks about his failure to vote on things he had promised to vote on.....one of those being gun control. He used a planned vacation and sickness of one of his children as an excuse. Haven’t read the rest of it yet.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010422211621/http://cwn.uchicago.edu/2000w/01.13/news/gunvote.html
ORGANIZING AND ISLAM
Organizing in neighborhoods has taken two paths that reflect historic dichotomy between integrationist and nationalist strategies. Many top conununity leaders collaborate on urban issues through city’s grasgroots network, forging multi-racial coalitions, while others take black nationalist approach, looking only within the African-American community for leadership and resources.
In first category are Ani Russell of community policing network, 312-461-0444; Jacky Grimshaw, former strategist for Harold Washington now working an community transportation issues; 773-278-4800, ext. 133; and Barack Obama, 773-684-4809, whose work to empower blacks has included his law practice, community organizing, philanthropy and most recently electoral politics: he is a candidate for state senate. A quiet leader with broad vision of empowerment and redevelopment in the Grand Boulevard neighborhood is Sokoni Karanja, 773-373-5700, whose nonprofit Centers for New Horizons provides social services, youth programs, education and child care.
Chicago is national center of black nationalist thought and organization. Head of the nation’s largest secular black-nationalist organization, the National Black United Front, Conrad Worrill, 773-268-5658, is a professor at Northeastern Illinois University’s Center for Inner City Studies and was prominent speaker at last year’s Million Man Man March.
not in archive surprise!
Voice of America, 30 August 1995WEDNESDAY’S ‘TALK TO AMERICA’ GUEST, BARACK OBAMA, DISCUSSES HIS EXPERIENCES.
.... HE ANALYZED THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ISLAM, POLITICS AND AN ECONOMY BASED
...
http://www.hri.org/news/agencies/voa/95-08-30.voa.html - View old version on the Internet Archive
Nice catch!
This is from part of an article...URL listed below
“I realized I was interested in how to address issues of poverty and high unemployment in urban areas. And I also became interested in political organizing in general; I was active in the anti-apartheid campaign that was very active on college campuses back in the early ‘80s,” said Obama. “I worked as a journalist for a year after college and then decided I wanted to become an organizer.”
Obama started with an organizing job in Harlem. Meanwhile, the Developing Communities Project in Chicago, made up of a church leaders on the far South Side, was looking to hire a young organizer to address the many issues that to plagued their communities. Offered $12,000 a year and a $1,000 grant to buy a used car, Obama drove to Chicago and took the job.
“I started working right away with the churches,” Obama said. “A lot of the steel plants had closed. There was a lot of racial transition in the community; basically the entire area had gone from white to black and Hispanic in a decade. For three and a half years, I worked to set up job training programs and addressed issues concerning school reform, public housing, public health programs and city services.”
http://web.archive.org/web/20010415022831/http://cwn.uchicago.edu/2000w/02.17/news/obama.html
If elected to Congress, Obama says he will continue working to solve the most important issues that affect the South Side of Chicago, including education, health care, juvenile justice, gun control and urban development.
wow, what a great job he did there. I hear it’s utopia now.
One of the themes that has emerged in Barack Obama’s campaign is “what does it take to create productive communities”, not just consumptive communities. It is an issue that joins some of the best instincts of the conservatives with the better instincts of the left. He felt the state government has three constructive roles to play.
The first is “human capital development”. By this he meant public education, welfare reform, and a “workforce preparation strategy”. Public education requires equality in funding. It’s not that money is the only solution to public education’s problems but it’s a start toward a solution. The current proposals for welfare reform are intended to eliminate welfare but it’s also true that the status quo is not tenable. A true welfare system would provide for medical care, child care and job training. While Barack Obama did not use this term, it sounded very much like the “social wage” approach used by many social democratic labor parties. By “workforce preparation strategy”, Barack Obama simply meant a coordinated, purposeful program of job training instead of the ad hoc, fragmented approach used by the State of Illinois today.
The state government can also play a role in redistribution, the allocation of wages and jobs. As Barack Obama noted, when someone gets paid $10 million to eliminate 4,000 jobs, the voters in his district know this is an issue of power not economics. The government can use as tools labor law reform, public works and contracts.
From : http://web.archive.org/web/20010906162143/www.chicagodsa.org/ngarchive/ng45.html
http://illinoisissues.uis.edu/archives/2008/09/whyorg.html
This was written by Obammie in 1988 , printed in a After Alinsky: book about Chicago and was reprinted in Illinois Issues in 2008. Very interesting.
Former Black Panther Wins Ill. primaryBarack Obama, the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, had 26778
votes, or 31%, while Donne Trotter, a veteran lawmaker and health-care ...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/e98/e1400.htm - View old version on the Internet Archive
Use the wayback machine on this one please.....WAs he really a Black Panther?
State Sen. Barack Obama (D-Chicago) called to gripe about Tuesday’s Inc. (Hey, join the club.) His beef was that we questioned his decision to stay on vacation in Hawaii instead of returning to Springfield to vote for a tough gun control measure.
Obama insists that he and his wife, Michelle, stayed in Hawaii not to sip mai tais on the beach but because their 18-month-old daughter, Malia, was sick. He decided not to fly home alone, which would have meant leaving his wife back in Hawaii to care for the sick child.
“We have a lot of politicians who like to talk about family values. At some point you have to live those families values,” he told Inc.
We repeat: His opponents in his race for Congress will use this against him.
By the way
Obama says the night before the next time the gun bill is up, he’ll be sleeping under his desk in Springfield to make sure he doesn’t miss the vote.
http://web.archive.org/web/20010623223823/http://chicagotribune.com/news/printedition/article/0,2669,SAV-0001050150,FF.html
NO! The article says Barack lost in that primary race - to a former Black Panther.
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