[lbo-talk] Obama, community organizer

[Max B. Sawicky]

How much community organizing amounts to anything?
That whole Alinsky model is deeply flawed, IMO.
That's not BHO's fault, nor should he be expected
to understand that, fresh out of college.

Making the effort speaks more to one's qualities than
lack of accomplishment.

Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Feb 8, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Max B. Sawicky wrote:
> 
>> Is this excerpt supposed to be convincing?  It's complete  
>> bullshit.  Lots of questions and innuendo, no answers.
> 
> The point is that Obama's spell as a community organizer seems to  
> have amounted to nothing, other than his being adopted by some high- 
> end foundations that greased his entry into the Harvard Law School,  
> via a lakefront condo. Several serious left-wing types have cited his  
> community organizing experience as actually meaning something, when  
> it seems it doesn't.
> 
> Dug
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