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Getting to know Barak Obama, community organizerDisplaying mentions in this article, for full text please visit source. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036398/posts
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Do you know what a community organizer does? And if so, do you know what it is about being a community organizer that might qualify one to be president of the United States?
My guess is most people don’t know, and they’re not sure what Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) means when he frequently cites his time as an organizer in Chicago as one of his qualifications for the White House.
I didn’t know either, which is why I went to Chicago recently to learn about Obama’s organizing years, from 1985 to 1988.
And after looking at Obama’s experience there, and talking to the people who worked closely with him, and reading Obama’s own account of the period — well, I’m still not sure what being a community organizer has to do with being president.
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Obama has been a “change” candidate all his life.
And he could be very persuasive. “He didn’t have experience,” one woman who worked with Obama and had a part in his hiring told me. “But he had a sensitivity that allowed us to believe that he could do the job.”
That sounds familiar, too. Even then, Obama was change you can believe in.
But there’s a question of how much change Obama really wanted to bring about.
Working in a part of Chicago beset by a culture of dysfunction, his agenda for change was strikingly conventional.
More summer jobs. More city spending on this. More spending on that.
In Chicago, Obama learned to organize. But when you ask what he was organizing for, you come up with the same-old, same-old stuff.
And when a truly innovative proposal for change came along — the welfare reform of 1996 — Obama wanted to water it down so it didn’t “punish people.”
In Chicago, Obama’s talent was for convincing people to believe in change, not in actually changing things.
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