[penelopesire]

Not sure if this was posted in June....but it warrants another thread now that it's October!! Lot's of excellent research!

[Jeff Head]

His community organizing was a part of his politicing...it got him in the ring.

OBAMA IS IMPLICATED IN THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

NOW WE KNOW WHAT A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER DOES


I'M VOTING FOR SARAH

[smokingfrog]

from rabble-rouser to stealth Marxist

[Fred Nerks]

quite a story...it's often been asked; why did he choose Chicago? I maintain he was directed there by Frank Marshall Davis.

interesting comment:

“I come out of a grassroots organizing background. That’s what I did for three and a half years before I went to law school. That’s the reason I moved to Chicago—to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I’ve been fi ghting alongside of ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected offi cial, when I ran Project Vote in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it...