Richard94611 wrote:
This is simply not true of Obama. He worked as a community organizer for several years. I am sure you don't consider the job of a social worker (which is really what that was) as being "work." But it is. Obama knows very well what the poor in this country endure.
Ron K. wrote:
What's the big difference between Romney and Obama anyway? They both never worked a day in their lives.
Yes and what did he do as a community organizer and state senator other than embed himself in the Chicago machine and make millions for his friends and supporters... did you think that it started with Solyndra???? Not by a long shot.
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Left unstated was the underlying reality that politically connected developers who built the housing would profit handsomely and could be expected to gratefully give millions of dollars in campaign contributions to politicians like Obama who made it all possible.
Chicago thus became the proving ground for Obama's vision, which, according to LISC spokesman Joel Bookman, "really changed the direction of community development in Chicago and ultimately nationally."
It was an irresistible combination of money, politics and idealism that also offered endless opportunities for greed and tragic abuse of the poor.
That made it an ideal tool for uniting the Daley machine with the reform coalition that had elected Harold Washington as the city's first African-American mayor in 1983. (Richard M. Daley, who reinvigorated the machine and became mayor in 1989, was the son of the machine's founder, Richard J. Daley, who died in 1976.)
The key to Obama's vision in Chicago, according to Marilyn Katz, was the city's most famous radical: "Remember, this is the community of Saul Alinsky. And most of the first housing groups were the Alinsky groups who were still banging at the door."
Katz, an influential Chicago public relations executive and longtime Obama friend and political operative, has visited the White House more than two dozen times since 2009.
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