Synonyms for “community organizer”
Add NY Democrat Gov. David Paterson to the list of those who don’t get why Obama’s “community organizer” days deserve ricidule, scorn, suspicion, and derision.
Paterson echoed the Obama cult’s complaint that Republicans equate “community organizer” with “black:”
On Monday, Gov. David Paterson angered some state lawmakers by comparing them to vampires, calling them a bunch of “blood suckers.” On Tuesday, he raised eyebrows again, and tempers, by accusing the John McCain campaign of veiled racism.
At the Crain’s Business Forum this morning, Paterson drew attention to a phrase used numerous times by speakers at the Republican National Convention to describe Barack Obama’s leadership experience: community organizer.
“I think the Republican Party is too smart to call Barack Obama ‘black’ in a sense that it would be a negative. But you can take something about his life, which I noticed they did at the Republican Convention – a ‘community organizer.’ They kept saying it, they kept laughing,” he said.
Let me help.
Synonyms for Obama-esque “community organizer:”
They come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and illegal and criminal records.
It ain’t about the black or white. It’s all about the green.
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Community organizer:
atheling – it’s very easy to have 3.1% equal a negative number. Libs do it all the time. With lgm as their math teacher it’s easy. Feeling is more important than absolutes
Your piece needed a wee bit of refinement to bring it into a proper historical perspective.
I can’t wait to see the response!
I remember during the 2006 election, George Allen (a republican running for the senate in Virgina) said something stupid and the libs hounded him for it. It was in the news for weeks and he lost the election as a result of it. It’s funny how when Obama says something stupid, the libs are now saying this is not a big deal and just a distraction from the issues. Did you say the same about Allen two years ago?
Dang it. I posted #101 on the wrong thread. Sorry folks. Still early and brain isn’t fully up yet.
It is fortunate that history cannot be rewritten as easily as my post.
A couple of things:
Yes, many of the opponents of civil righte were registered Democrats. It is these democrats that Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan successfully targeted in their efforts to build a new majority, thus making southern racists a core constituency of the Republican Party (NOT CALLING ALL REPUBLICANS RACIST, THANK YOU). You can have them.
The war on poverty was led by Lyndon Johnson, a Democrat, as was the fight for civil rights. Republicans can rightly claim that — before they embraced their historically repulsive “southern strategy” and became the party Of Jesse Helms — significant credit. But it was the Democrats who led the fight and who were subsequently “punished” for being right.
you are right, the murdered civil rights workers were “American heroes.” They were also community organizers, and trying to artificially draw a distinction between the two is intellectually dishonest. (By the standards of this discussion, anyone who ever gave a speech in public is apparently a community organizer, but I won’t hold you to the low standards set by others).
The Contract with America, as you might know had you read it, had little to do with economic issues, and key portions, like the lIne item veto, the balanced budget amendment and the supermajority to raise taxes were never passed.
Welfare reform was a key element of the Clinton platform from the moment his candidacy was declared and he closed down the government, as you may recall, to ensure that the final bill more closely resembled his vision than Newt’s. He also raised the EITC, which was a significant factor in the fall in poverty, and pursued fiscal policies which brought down the deficit and lowered the cost of capital, helping to fuel the longest expansion in American economic history.
The truth is, there has never been a significant decline in black poverty under a Republican president. Because poor people are not their priority.
It wasn’t long ago that people here were sneering at Obama’s modest wealth — I guess that community organizing isn’t the path to riches you claim. On the other hand, being a crony of the Bush Administration, a shareholder in Halliburton, or an oil industry executive is a pretty lucrative position.
During two eras in which Democrats agressively pursued the war on poverty (sometimes with Republican help) poverty rates fell by 40% and by 33%. I guess the War on Poverty is just one more war the Republicans bungled.
oh how about these equations:
Saul Alinsky = Community Organizer
Barak Obama = Community Organizer
Barak Obama = Saul Alinsky
William Ayers = UofC Professor
Barak Obama = UofC part time speaker
Barak Obama = William Ayers
National Hlth Care = Socialism
Barak Obama = National Hlth Care
Barak Obama = Socialist
RACIST?!?!? That’s a stretch too far for most brains. Man, the whole “community organizer” thing started when the Obama camp criticized/ridiculed Palin’s credentials as mayor of Wassila and governor of Alaska. Palin responded back with her zinger at the acceptance speech – and the Dems are whining for weeks. I guess the truth hurts. Hey Obama, remember who started this right out of the gate – YOU DID!
It appears David Paterson’s move away from his liberal democrat roots is on hiatus.
Lately he has been doing great things here by recognizing economic reality and cutting the budget without regard to the incessant whining and background maneuvering of the unions and other liberal interest groups.
His demand of a special budget cutting session of the legislature was derided by the democrat assembly leader as a stunt but succeeded in cutting half a billion.
He has ordered across the board % cuts in this and next years budget, even going so far as to say that next year’s budget may be lower than this year’s in actual dollars.
Just this week, I was elated to see him compare the legislature to vampires who say good things to their constituents during the day then return to their bloodsucking ways at night when out of public view. The legislature went nuts over that one! As they say, the truth hurts.
It’s a shame that the grasp of economics and the intestinal fortitude of our accidental governor doesn’t come in a more conservative body.
Bemused
What has the 40 years of “war on poverty” gain for those of lower income?
Answer; Very little income increase of the lower 20%
Answer; A fractured social condition that encourages dependance.
Answer; A near perpetual underclass.
Answer; A collapsed educational system.
Answer; A bastardization of the US constitution
Listen sport. I was born poor. I don’t want to hear any of sociology 101 regurgitation’s.
What you need to know and practice are the values of self reliance.
There hasn’t been a significant decline in poverty uner any president.
We have poured billions(trillions?) into the war on poverty and very little has changed. The government can only do so much. It’s up to individuals themselves to decide they want a better life.
I give my parents as an example again. They came to US with about $10 in their pocket and not knowing the language. They never once took a government handout. They worked and worked hard. They now own their homes, cars and were able to make sure I finished without debt coming out of college. This is all without the help of the government. People who are born here are already ahead of where my parents started when they arrived here.
It has, as the statistics show, reduced the number of people who live in poverty by 60%.
Yes, the remaining underclass are a tough nut to crack, and traditional approaches aren’t working, which is why a new generation is looking at different approaches, that encourage self-reliance.
I don’t know why you bring up the bottom 20%, they are not a conservative concern.
And what bastardization of the Constitution are you talking about?
I am unimpressed with your impoverished roots. People from every economic class can be wrong. And, in addition, you seem to be pretty bitter, too. How many guns do you own?
Bemused
Using the standards of today, I lived in a poverty condition.
This country offers the opportunity to reach any financial level you my wish to obtain. I accomplished all that I have thru hard work and self reliance. No excuses. No begging for help. No community organizer to show me the way. It was liberals like you that slowed my progress and it’s liberals like you that are getting in the of my daughters progress. It is liberals like you who are destroying this country under the guise of social justice. What I don’t understand is your great need to make excuses for those who haven’t achieved.
AND WHY LIBERALS LIKE YOU WANT ME TO PAY RETRIBUTIONS TO A CONDITION I NEVER CREATED.
Project much?
Maybe they are a concern and you are too blind to know it.
Does it ever occur to you that conservatives are very concerned with social situations. In fact our concern leads us to the ONLY proven long term solution. TEACHING to FISH instead of the liberal “let’s give them more fish”.
Let me be even more clear – I’m so concerned about poverty that I believe we need to send exactly zero government money to anybody for anything (slight overstatement here for the purpose of emphasis). Hunger is a wonderful motivator. “Tough love” is comprised of two words – Tough and love. Tough because some will in fact get hungry. Love because in fact at the other end of the process, all will be self sufficient.
What is this fixation you have with “black poverty?” Poverty does not discriminate which I am sure you are aware but you simply choose to make this a black vs. white issue. And since you love to tout the Democrats love affair for helping those that are less fortunate. Please explain why Obama, the great community organizer’s half-brother is living in a hut, making $12 per yr? In addition, please explain why Obama has reneged on his promise to financially assist the Senator Obama Kogelo School in Africa?
Is he hurting for cash?
So, please spare us the holier-than-thou crap about democrats caring so much for those in need when all they really care about is what is most politically expedient; which translates to whatever keeps in them in office.
BL, made a funny. Republicans donate their own money and time to causes. Democrats idea of giving means higher taxes. Get a grip.
My, you are bitter. And a victim, too, of the great liberal conspiracy.
Odd to think that since we began this fight for social justice — a bipartisan one, as you pointed out — we beat the Great Depression, won the cold war, and emerged as the greatest military and economic power in the history of the world.
Yeah, we really ruined it.
On September 10th, 2008 at 8:12 am, BemusedLib said:
Why is it the State’s job to fight perceived social ills (Poverty, Racism, Unbalanced Media, Bad Economy, Carbon)?
Answer: it isn’t. A free and just State has only four morally acceptable jobs: 1) Protect its citizens from physical harm; 2) Protect its citizen’s private property; 3) Enforce legally binding contracts between free people; 4) Protect its territory.
Why do collectivists act as if it is fait accompli that these other “jobs” belong to the State?
Answer: Because they hate freedom, and want to help make the State more powerful.
Because they are slavemasters, and Bemusedlib thinks slavery, if shaped by supposedly benevolent goals (poverty! racism! hate-speech! Whatever!) is not only desired, but ultimately lusted for.
Forgot the fifth job: 5) Protect the freedom of its citizens.
Yeah, but winning the Cold War was done by Reagan, Thatcher, and Bush Sr. As I remember all their moves were resisted tooth and nail by liberals.
We do have the greatest military, but no thanks to Clinton or Carter. They made some serious (even dangerous) cuts to our forces. Obama has pledged to the same. Or has he changed his tune on that one?
Ok… Here’s synonym for Gov. David Patterson…
RACE BAITER
Patterson you idiot… this has noting to do with black or white… it has to do with someone making a living off the public dole not for the public good, but to enrich themselves and their pals.
BENUSED
I started a business with $200 in my pocket. I grew it and added well paid employees. If you use the standard economic money multiplier rules of 5 to 1 ratio, I have added 40 million dollars to the economy. Now that is social engineering. I am not complaining nor do I feel bitter. I am saddened that my 35 years of 80 hour work weeks can now be used to take 70% of that work in taxes. What have those taxes accomplished, but to morally weaken and promote a self centered culture.
Liberals solve problems and change society for the better — and often givew their own money and time for causes, as well. Republicans whine.
The same can be said about any Democratic president or Democrat controlled Congress. Because poor people are not the Democrats’ priority either. Simply their vehicle.
The fact is that the Constitution does not give the federal government the authority to be in the charity business. That would include welfare, socialized healthcare, and even taxpayer funding of groups of “community organizers”.
Examples please.
On September 10th, 2008 at 9:14 am, BemusedLib said:
Do not confuse bitterness with righteous anger. It is a justified anger that may one day be forced to use force of arms to destroy collectivism and its proponents.
Note that bemusedlib only argues those points it thinks it can “score” against, and ignores those that get back to basics, for instance, that bemusedlib is a slavemaster (or the shill for slavemasters).
It acts as if all citizens are property to the State – as if the citizens were plants in its garden. It belches snotty indignation that one group or another has not been “watered” enough on its expansive plantation.
How dare the State neglect the daffodils over the lillies?
Okay, what of the questions I posed? Simply overlook them and move on to your talking points. Sad. So very sad.
I guess I’m supposed to emote now? Republicans create jobs and show individuals how to lift themselves out of poverty by working for a living. Liberals create welfare which keeps these people they supposedly want to help in poverty. I didn’t start this game. You did.
Film #115 – it’s kinda amazing – there were these old white guys who thought those were the proper goals of government – and they wrote this little document to encapsulate those thoughts. It’s rather amazing how the conservatives have to fight so hard to preserve that document in spite of it having been the basis for the greatest country on earth.
Libs just don’t get it.
lest my #125 be mis-understood – the fact the they were “white” does not minimize or add to the strength of the document (s)they wrote.
What is the DNC’s obsession with being the black victim? Get over yourselves.
As history progresses, the collective evolves ever more powerful psychological means to enslave free men and women.
I would like the slavemaster BemusedLib to refute this:
Posit: BemusedLib is a community organizer.
Posit: BemusedLib receives a salary paid in whole or in part from the State.
Posit: The State confiscates that money from its Citizens against their free will, in effect making them slaves to the State.
Posit: I am one of those citizens that the State confiscated that money from.
Posit: BemusedLib is my slavemaster.
Posit: Slaves have the moral and legal authority to escape slavery and regain their freedom using whatever means at their disposal.
No… I equate “community organizer” with rabble rousing commie socialist. I dont care about skin color.
BEMUSED
HOW CAN YOU CONSTITUTIONALLY OR MORALLY TAKE 70% OF MY HARD WORK. YOU DIDN’T MAKE IT HAPPEN.
I DID.
60% drop out rate. Most children still born to a single parent. Higher abortion rate than birth rate. Generations of entitlements to perpetuate the poverty.
Lets face it. It does no good for Democrats to improve the economy. It only turns people into Republicans. They must establish entitlements until eventually they bankrupt the country.
No wonder you’re bitter, your buddies the Republicans took over government and they cut taxes for multinational corporations and the overpaid executives who run them; they cut taxes for the children of billionaires; they cut taxes for stock speculators and fund managers. But then they forgot about forgot about small businesses.
How
exactly like the Republican Party.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union [economy], establish Justice [racism], insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare [poverty, carbon], and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I prefer to use the ballot box, but I won’t get in your way!
BEMUSED
Were did you learn economics?
GEEEEESS
BEMUSED
I see the problem. You really don’t understand the U.S. Constitution.
If I may have everyone’s attention and cooperation, please ignore bemusedlib until it demonstrates to my satisfaction why it has the moral and legal authority to enslave me – and you.
Anytime it responds to you, simply tell it to respond to me re: post #128, or else ignore it.
A committed slavemaster – even one that merely uses psychology to enslave – does not deserve to be recognized as a sentient being.
Wow! I have to go with FamilyMan on this one. There is a huge difference on how we read the Constitution.
Lib – you are rather short sighted here. You claim gov’t cut taxes on “the rich” but forgot about small business. I dare you to go get a real tax form and fill it out and show me how those EARNING what you perceive to be rich amounts, wind up paying a lower tax rate than those that you claim are the middle class or poor.
When I was in “big corporate business” – I made good money – I paid big taxes.
Now that I’m a “small business person” – I still make pretty good money (for only working double the hours with double the headaches) and I still pay big taxes.
I suppose you think that’s fair.
Thank you .
If I calculate my hours and divide it by the standard 40 hour work week I’m paying proportional evan higher taxes per hour.
Bemused will never understand.
FamilyMan – I really do dare Lib to go get a tax form and show us.
I’ve challenged several through the years and either a) they are afraid to do it or b)they admitted the argument about the “rich” was bull.
Great dem talking point though.
Bemusedlib,
Okay, let’s do another round then:
1. Bemusedlib believes that the State can confiscate money for any purpose, for any reason, and as much as it wants, so long as its “society” believes it is for a good cause.
2. Bemusedlib believes that money is not a conduit by which the time and labor of a person is measured.
3. Bemusedlib does not recognize that when the State confiscates money from a citizen, the citizen is working for the State for as long as is necessary to generate that money.
4. Bemusedlib does not recognize that forced, unpaid labor is slavery.
5. Bemusedlib does not recognize that by aiding and abetting the State in its confiscation of money from citizens, it is no better than a slavemaster.
If I can step outside of the partisan brawling for a moment, let me offer my respect for one who has built a small business and sympathies regarding your tax challenges. I have a close friend who built a small business himself, and his taxes are ludicrous. He enjoys neither the advantages of of a large corporation or those of an individual, and feels that — in the Bush tax-cutting frenzy — he has been ignored.
Fair taxes are whatever taxes are needed to pay the bills, levied at the same rate for all income.
BEMUSED
Answer one simple question.
Who makes the money. Government or private enterprise?
There is hope for you.
And your responses were NOT refutations. I wasn’t arguing from a legal or economic point and you know it.
It is a point about freedom.
Your arguments – such as they are – indicates to me that you value freedom far less than your psychological need to dominate and enslave others through the State to serve what you think is “good.”
There is an important word in that sentence – feels. This has nothing to do with feelings.
All corporate taxation is double taxation (ie – the company pays taxes on profit and then “pays” the shareholders who again pay taxes on it). So, I don’t buy your “Bush tax cutting frenzy” statement.
And now I must go work for the State and for the causes that BemusedLib holds so dearly.
Oops, forgot one thing:
Translation: “Shut up, slave, and get back to work! Quit your whining! You get bread and board! I treat you good!”
I feel so stupid. I didn’t know that community organizer was Repubilcan “Code” for black. Maybe I am really a Democrat and I wasn’t aware of that either. Are there other code words I don’t know?? Why was I left out??
Oh yeah, and “they” kept laughing. I’m still laughing!
kmassitti,
A few more for you:
Rich – anyone who makes a dollar more than you
Contributions – taxes
Choice – killing babies
Synonyms for “community organizers”?
-BS artists
-Shakedown artists
-Con artists
Doesn’t matter if you’re black, white or pink.
Errah I though you were going to say “communist sympathizer” errah?
Community Organizer: Social Worker
Community Organizer in Chicago: Militant Democrat Operative
Errah, aren’t these all anagrams??!!
Community organizer? I always preferred rabble rouser or antagonizer myself.
I wasn’t aware that Community organizers were all black? Is that is the job description or something?
Corruption, thy name is “community organizer.”
Now that is something I can agree with you about. Dick Armey’s Flat Tax proposal would have done exactly that, but it was shot down. Both Democrats and Republicans have too much at stake in the “progressive” and punitive tax system, which is unfair, burdensome, indecipherable and essentially corrupt in the sense that particular tax payers are selectively given tax breaks.
I have to take issue with the following statement though:
What defines “better” and “whining” notwithstanding, the charitable donations of some prominent Democrats has been meager until they consider running for office
See the following:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0704250022apr25,0,3205433.story
and
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/us/politics/26taxes.html?ref=politics
It appears that Democrats are more inclined to donate my money than theirs. This pattern has been associated with red states and blue states, with citizens of red states giving significantly more charitable donations as a percentage of their income than those in blue states.
Jesus was a “community organizer”, and “community organizer” is a code word for black…. (link to Not Your Sweetie):
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/race-card-is-here-again-you-wont-believe-what-else-is-black/#comment-2815
Bemused Lib seems to suffer from success envy.
Someone on a thread on a forum somewhere snidely said, “So much for Compassionate Conservatism” in an attempt to insult against us.
Well, see, that’s an ironic problem for liberals. Because there is absolutely no way in hell that a liberal can claim to embody the word compassionate as long as s/he supports the murder of infants in the womb.
NOT POSSIBLE.
So, until they stop supporting and excusing infanticide, they discredit themselves from being able to claim to be compassionate.
Community Organizers?
Erich Roehm?
Adolf Hitler?
Fredrich Engels?
Vladimir Lenin?
Chow en Lai?
Mao Tse Dung?
Idi Amin?
Pol Pot…my personal favorite
but I’m also quite fond of the vast cast of characters present in that great French community based organizational orgy we call The Terror. One of it’s inventors, Robespierre, ultimately falls to his own device in delicious irony. We conservatives guffaw about that hundreds of years later.
Our present leader, duh1, makes the Shrub look almost intelligent. This guy is one dumbazz.