As a community organizer in Chicago, Barack Obama didn’t accomplish much.
He’d be the first to tell you that.
He got a job bank opened and brought public attention to an asbestos problem at a housing project.
He had his failures, too.
But Obama’s record of accomplishment wasn’t what Republicans were criticizing last week when they sneered at his time working for the city’s poor from 1985 to 1988.
They lambasted the job itself.
“He worked as a community organizer,” former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said in an ugly speech Wednesday night to much sneering in the convention arena.
Read More of Why is GOP sneering at Obama's work as community organizer? off-site...Bill Baar says:
Refer back to Krauthammer's column on the lack of people from Obama's past presented at the convention.
If Dems fleshed out "community organizer" a bit with some of the folks Obama worked with, what they did, specifics instead of the generic "community organizer" he might be in better shape.
But then that means getting into the specifics on ACORN and all of that and Obama just prefers not going there.
America will know more about Sarah Palin's past 20 years in a week or two than we'll learn about Obama's past.
Pat Hickey says:
The root of community organizing is self-interest.
'Country before Self' is the opposite of Community Organizing. Getting other people to complain, agitate about anything.
John Powers says:
Easy answer to the Sun Times.
Because he was such a flop as a community organizer. Had Obama entered any other legal business, surely a man with his keen abilities would have had some success, rather than a string of failed projects, run-ins with Rezko and Ayers, leading to a career in demonizing Wal-Mart, while complaining about the lack of business opportunities on the South Side.
JBP