Posted on 09/13/2008 8:01:04 PM PDT by Plutarch
(09-13) 04:00 PDT Chicago -- - The young man who walked up to her battered office at the notorious Altgeld Gardens housing project in 1987 looked too green to be of any real help, Hazel Johnson remembers. An environmental activist, Johnson needed help to fight the authorities to get toxics cleaned up around Altgeld's homes - not some idealistic community organizer from uptown, out to make a mark and leave.
Then the 25-year-old Barack Obama stuck out his hand for a firm shake. He promised he'd work hard to get asbestos and other contaminants torn out of the project's houses. He had steel in his eyes.
"He was such a young man, but Lord, was he smart," Johnson, now 74, recalled at her home in Altgeld Gardens, where she continues to battle for environmental reform. "And before long, he was doing a little of everything - he knew how to get people together, and he knew how to make the managers listen. He surprised me."
Over the next five months, Obama helped Altgeld's 8,000 residents get toxics swept away from many parts of the sprawling housing project. It was one of many projects he took on, between 1985 and 1988, as a community organizer helping residents in Chicago's impoverished South Side district fight to get potholes filled and job programs started. In his speech last year announcing his run for president, he recalled that, "It was in these neighborhoods that I received the best education I ever had."
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And now running for POTUS.
Frightening to say the least.
One might ask why the socialist Democrats put asbestos in the public housing projects. Like syphillus in Alabama, was this an intentional conspiracy to destroy Black people?
Ahmedinejad just soiled himself when he read this.
Forward to victory over the infidels, Barack.
And Halliburton!
Cheers!
Bird flu virus.
“BS - He used this as a ploy, it’s been debunked. He never finished the job, never showed up on site (barely), and in the end a Republican had to finish the job.”
Or, in the words of the woman interviewed for the puff piece, “some idealistic community organizer from uptown, out to make a mark and leave.”
Well, duh...he’s an Daley machine ORGANIZER, doncha know.
Congressman Billybob
Tenth in the ten-part series, "The Owner's Manual (Part 10) -- The Remaining Amendments"
His 2 accomplishments in 3 years, was organizing 2 meetings to get government to agree to open an additional summer-job program office and to clean up asbestos in a building.
“If you ask Obama’s fellow organizers what his most significant accomplishments were, they point to two ventures: the expansion of a city summer-job program for South Side teenagers and the removal of asbestos from one of the area’s oldest housing projects. Those, they say, were his biggest victories… “, http://sweetness-light.com/archive/byron-york-on-obamas-community-organizing
Obama has a history of doing nothing, like the Do Nothing Congress.
“Well, duh...he’s an Daley machine ORGANIZER, doncha know.”
I think the common term for what nobama did in Chicago is “Ward Healer”.
I don’t know. Given where we are, I’d say that Obama gives ward healers a bad name.
What is a ‘Community Organizer’? Everyone talks like everyone else knows what type of job this is. I have no idea what a community organizer does. Seems to me that if a community needed organizing, that’s what the mayor and city council are for. Let’s back up. Who wrote his paycheck? What was his job description? Who was his boss? What was his and his organization’s goals? Did he have good reviews? What were his documented accomplishments? This guy STILL has not been vetted.
Resume of: B HUSSEIN OBAMA
1.) COLB
Proven fake by more than one source
2.) Sketchy childhood
We know some details - Lots of gaps - muslim?
3.) College thesis has vanished
Was it anything like Michele’s?
4.) Overseas travel
Pakistan? Why? On what passport?
5.) Law records
What cases did he represent?
6.) Senate records disappeared
What was he trying to hide?
7.) Associations
Rev Wright, Ayers, Rezko, Michele etc.
8.) Senate voting record
That speaks for itself
9.) SCOTUS
Who would his choices be?
10.) Proven Liar
11.) Inexperience
12.) Racist, Sexist, Radical, Marxist views
His judgement in the people he associates with and his radical/marxist views scare the hell out of me.
Actually it's "Ward Heeler", not "healer"... Those kind of folks never fix anything (besides elections)...
the infowarrior
Bingo! I have no idea what a community organizer is either. All we have are groups of volunteers that pick up horse poop after parades. Is that community organizing?
I guess they could call him a “Blue Heeler”, his lips look kinda blue most of the time.
Obama profile: Ability to evolve and adapt
uh uh uhvolution in action.
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