I guess they’ve lost the ACORN socialist organizer vote. After Sarah Palin’s speech the other night, millions of Americans are asking, “Just what does a community organizer do?”
They’re finding out that while millions of Americans are community organizers if they’re active in their church outreach, the Boy Scouts, civic clubs and such, apparently thousands more get paid for trying to perpetuate government give-aways and strengthen the nanny state. Here’s how one such person describes the job:
“It is an activity to clean up the mess that the government creates by bringing voices of people to the table that have been excluded and left out,” the executive director of New York Immigration Coalition, Chung-Wha Hong, said.
The mess that government created is the Great Society and the War on Poverty, the only war the left is for, regardless of the quagmire quality to it. While there may be some among these folks who help create the odd success story, most don’t accomplish much at all, judging from the numbers.
A real success story would be a person who leaves welfare and goes out on his or her own, gets a job, buys a house and car, pays a mortgage and send their kids to college. But people like that quite often vote conservatively, don’t they? Hmm. Maybe that’s why “community organizers” teach victimology and dependency.
UPDATE: Obama saw community organizing as a dead end in 1987, according to Jerry Kellman, who was a fellow organizer at the time. Kellman said Obama decided to go to law school because he wasn’t getting anything done as an organizer. Apparently Kellman feels about “community organizing” as I do in my comments above:
“Organizing,” Kellman tells me, as we sit in a Chicago restaurant down the street from the Catholic church where he now works as a lay minister, “is always a lost cause.” Obama, circa late 1987, might or might not have put it quite that strongly. But he had clearly developed serious doubts about the career he was pursuing.
