Shocker! Obama’s Years As A Community Organizer Produced More Talk Than Action

When pressed on his lack of experience, Obama often cites his years as a ‘community organizer’ as part of his resume (such as it is). Like most other things about Obama the press has taken that at face value. No one seems to have bothered to follow up and see what it actually means and what, if anything, he accomplished in that oddly titled job.

Well, Byron York at National Review took a look and believe it or not, it doesn’t seem Obama accomplished much at all.

His greatest hits seem to have been a successful effort to convince the city of Chicago to locate a jobs placement office on the far South Side and his part in a drive to push the city to clean asbestos out of a housing project in the same area.

… Obama, not long out of college, didn't have much experience to qualify him to be an organizer. But he was black — a threshold qualification for this particular job — and he seemed able almost to work magic on those he encountered. "He didn't have experience," Augustine-Herron told me, "but he had a sensitivity that allowed us to believe that he could do that job."

Gee, this all sounds vaguely familiar. It’s one thing to take a chance on a smooth talking but inexperienced young guy to be a community organizer, it’s quite another to elect someone President with a resume as thin as Obama’s.

posted by DrewM. at 11:31 AM

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