I was a municipal attorney in a very large US city. There are, to be sure, some decent people involved in community organizations. The majority are, however, hacks and thugs of the worst sort; they are the very people who, along with AFSCME, are most responsible with the destruction of the inner city and the degradation especially of the urban black community and culture in America. The fact that Obama is the product of such a cesspool by itself disqualifies him, in my mind, for holding any elective office.
Community organizations, along with the community development corporations with which they are tied at the hip, are generally created for the sole purpose of receiving federal funds in the form of Community Development Block Grants or CDBGs; some state and local funds are also involved. These funds are then used primarily to buy up cheap properties and vacant land, ostensibly to develop them as businesses or low-income housing. More often than not, however, the only actual development winds up being a nice new office for the organization itself, a few desks and computers for otherwise-unemployable relatives and friends, and then a nice tidy sum from the taxpayers which will then be used to buy goodies (like nifty shirts with the community organization’s logos, perhaps a mini-van or two, and the occasional trip to Atlantic City for the staff.
Again, I don’t want to paint with too broad a brush as there are a handful of legitimate community groups organizations of the type The One was involved in. But by and large I would say without any hesitation that fully 80-90% of all community organizations of the sort The One was involved in are nothing more than corrupted cash cows often used to hide illegal campaign donations, abuse federal, state and local funds, and to bolster the political aspirations of people like Obama. In other words, 80-90% of these groups in big cities are nothing but the worst sort of scum you would ever imagine could walk the earth.
Because of my experience with people like that (including the few who happened to have oratory skills), I could not and would not vote for one of them to save my life. They are the foot-soldiers of the ultra corrupt local party machines that have destroyed the inner cities and anyone who even suggests that these groups by and large help any of the people they claim to is a horse’s ass.
The FBI is crawling all over Cuyahoga County, Ohio, for that very reason.
You should consider posting #20 as its own article. It’s very well written.
PING to post below - I just saw this one from a couple of months ago while searching for something else. This superb post is another reminder of how the stealth candidate Obamessiah represents some of the worst political, social, and economic ideas in American life..... the corrupt, inept, vicious, and dishonest “community organizers” who have helped to prolong and worsen urban blight while contributing little if anything of value.....
To: FreedomLives2008
I was a municipal attorney in a very large US city. There are, to be sure, some decent people involved in community organizations. The majority are, however, hacks and thugs of the worst sort; they are the very people who, along with AFSCME, are most responsible with the destruction of the inner city and the degradation especially of the urban black community and culture in America. The fact that Obama is the product of such a cesspool by itself disqualifies him, in my mind, for holding any elective office.
Community organizations, along with the community development corporations with which they are tied at the hip, are generally created for the sole purpose of receiving federal funds in the form of Community Development Block Grants or CDBGs; some state and local funds are also involved. These funds are then used primarily to buy up cheap properties and vacant land, ostensibly to develop them as businesses or low-income housing. More often than not, however, the only actual development winds up being a nice new office for the organization itself, a few desks and computers for otherwise-unemployable relatives and friends, and then a nice tidy sum from the taxpayers which will then be used to buy goodies (like nifty shirts with the community organization’s logos, perhaps a mini-van or two, and the occasional trip to Atlantic City for the staff.
Again, I don’t want to paint with too broad a brush as there are a handful of legitimate community groups organizations of the type The One was involved in. But by and large I would say without any hesitation that fully 80-90% of all community organizations of the sort The One was involved in are nothing more than corrupted cash cows often used to hide illegal campaign donations, abuse federal, state and local funds, and to bolster the political aspirations of people like Obama. In other words, 80-90% of these groups in big cities are nothing but the worst sort of scum you would ever imagine could walk the earth.
Because of my experience with people like that (including the few who happened to have oratory skills), I could not and would not vote for one of them to save my life. They are the foot-soldiers of the ultra corrupt local party machines that have destroyed the inner cities and anyone who even suggests that these groups by and large help any of the people they claim to is a horse’s ass.
20 posted on Thursday, September 04, 2008 11:42:54 PM by Ilya Mourometz
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