Miika Grady

Obama was just a Community Organizer

Barack Obama was only a lowly community organizer? Wow. That’s terrible. What exactly did he do? [ TIME Mag, Swampland, Joe Klein ] Afterall, Rudy Guiliani doesn’t even know what that means!

Here is the summary:

“Obama was working for a group of churches that were concerned about their parishioners, many of whom had been laid off when the steel mills closed on the south side of Chicago. They hired Obama to help those stunned people recover and get the services they needed–job training, help with housing and so forth–from the local government… Obama served the poor for three years, then went to law school.”

Joe Klein continues:

“To describe this service–the first thing he did out of college, the sort of service every college-educated American should perform, in some form or other–as anything other than noble is cheap and tawdry and cynical in the extreme.”

I couldn’t agree more. Pretty disgusting how the whole convention laughed it up when Obama’s community organizing was mocked.

More entertaining republican double-speak, thanks to Jon Stewart: