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This is what he wrote on his resume"

• 1985-1988 Director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland on Chicago's South Side. While director grew the DCP staff from 1 to 13 and their budget from $70,000 to $400,000.

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BE ADVISED: Regarding the DCP “Obama answered a help-wanted ad for a position as a community organizer for the Developing Communities Project (DCP) …. 24 years old, unmarried, very accustomed to a vagabond existence, and according to his memoir, searching for a genuine African-American community.” “Both the CCRC and the DCP were built on the Alinsky model of community agitation, wherein paid organizers learned how to "rub raw the sores of discontent," in Alinsky's words.” One of Obama's early mentors in the Alinsky method was Mike Kruglik, who had this to say to an Ryan Lizza of The New Republic, about Obama:

"He was a natural, the undisputed master of agitation, who could engage a room full of recruiting targets in a rapid-fire Socratic dialogue, nudging them to admit that they were not living up to their own standards. As with the panhandler, he could be aggressive and confrontational. With probing, sometimes personal questions, he would pinpoint the source of pain in their lives, tearing down their egos just enough before dangling a carrot of hope that they could make things better."

“The agitator's job, according to Alinsky, is first to bring folks to the "realization" that they are indeed miserable, that their misery is the fault of unresponsive governments or greedy corporations, then help them to bond together to demand what they deserve, and to make such an almighty stink that the dastardly governments and corporations will see imminent "self-interest" in granting whatever it is that will cause the harassment to cease.”

(http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/01/obamas_alin...

Here is what he wrote on his resume' when he worked for a branch of ACORN

• 1992 Led Chicago's Project Vote! push. This effort resulted in a record number of voter registrations, over 600,000 in Chicago. 1)

This is what I found out about this job:

BE ADVISED: “Project Vote!, the local chapter of a not-for-profit national organization”. (Chicago Mag.com) (the organization is ACORN)

Regarding ACORN: ” ACORN is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families. It has held violent, disruptive protests, seeks to regulate banks, supports left-leaning education policies, is accused of working on urging partisan voter turnout for elections, and seems to promote driving businesses from cities.”

Nothing, the community he worked in is just as disorganized. Even Obama has not described how his experience as a community organizer demonstrates an ability to create change. He just mentions it, and why is beyond me.

lol, look at what Beaver posted, that's not flattering:

"During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from one to thirteen and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000"

yeah, that sounds like tax and spend Obama. The same Obama that requested $932 million in earmarks, 1/18th of the total amount of earmarks requested. That's very disproportionate considering Obama is not 1/18th of the Senate.

And he took a trip to Kenya to see his family, that's not an accomplishment.

look at the community he helped 'organize'...according to a report on NPR, well-known as 'obama friendly', not much as changed; the people there still live in third-world squalor, housing standards have declined while obama's developer buddies like rezko pocketed MILLIONS of tax dollars...he DID register a lot of new democrats for the dailey machine, but that could be easily done (as it usually is done)with a notebook, a pencil, and a walking tour of chicago's cemeteries

He was 23 years old. He had graduated from college & wanted to get involved in giving back. He went to work with 9 parishs. There was a community that was geographically located in a way that the people couldn't even walk to the employment office. The wierd thing I saw this on Fox & I do not normallly watch that..It showed the different things located that made in impossible for the people to get around...He set them up with mentors, church, education, G.E.D, help or whatever they needed so they could work to succeed..the area people has worked for a steel plant that had closed down...There were some women who had worked but not been able to get anywhere & he came in & they showed them on TV saying that when the one would stand up & talk people would start yelling & so he just said "wait a minute, let's give her a chance to speak" so he was hero to this people. He made $12,000 a year. He took them from 1 paid staff member to 13 & $70,000-$400,000 which was a lot of money back then. He helped people get back to living independent functioning lives. It would be nice to see how they have done but he has never asked people to come forth for him like that. He is a humble Christian man. He left them in 1989 (i think) when he started at Harvard....I have always been an open iminded, democrat but when Sarah Palin & the other republicans stood up at that convention & critized him for doing this she criticizen many people who have helped make this country what it is but might not have tons of money to show for it so that was it, that was when I lost respect for McCain completely.

A WHOLE lot less than Sarah Palin did as mayor Wasilla and Governor of Alaska...

And a WHOLE WHOLE WHOLE lot less than Senator McCain has accomplished in his many years in politics.

I think he got coffee for Jesse but he got pd good

In the 1980s a lot of the heavy industry left the Chicago area for the Sun belt and overseas locations. That left a LOT of unemployed and underemployed people in the area. Obama helped them organize to find job re-training and resources.

From what I heard, he worked for the Democratic Machine of Chicago run by the Daly's. And basically he traded packs and cartons of cigs. for Democratic votes. Truth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama

*** After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side.[13][15] During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from one to thirteen and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens.[16] Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[17] In mid-1988, he traveled for the first time to Europe for three weeks and then for five weeks in Kenya, where he met many of his Kenyan relatives for the first time.[18] ***

Nothing that makes him Presidential material.