WTF is a "Community Organizer"?

[J. J.]

I don't see any relevance. Can somebody explain it to me?

According to your math, does "war hero" automatically = good president?

War Hero does not necessarily equal a good President.  However, I'm not sure if being a "Community organizer" could get one a job as an assistant fry cook at McDonalds, let alone President of the United States.

To be honest, I don't think McDonalds will care if you fought in a war either.

They might.  Military service is generally a selling point on a resume.

But seriously, "community organizer" is not a something I'd emphasize.

[J. J.]

Community organizer is a great and valuable experience that will be of much use to Obama. Part of the sweeping, earth-shattering change that will be imposed on American politics by our president-elect is the novel approach he will take to Congress. Instead of the Democrats and Republicans organizing as political parties, Obama will organize them all as a community, drawing on his experience in that field. After all, we are not Republicans and Democrats, not senators and house representatives but, now and forever, first and foremost AMERICANS.

Everyone will drink free soup and vote for peace and a glorious era will commence.


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I don't think there is anything wrong with being a community organizer though. But I don't think of it as much qualification for the presidency (and, yeah, showing the kind of courage and resilience McCain did in the war is worth more, imo). But it is of course true that this kind of talk gets around every time it is viable.

I do have some leeway in this case, however, as I supported Kerry in 2004 and McCain now, having a strong record of consistent war-hero support. I support the veterans. Where do YOU stand?

You forgot that they'll be singing Kumbaya.

[J. J.]

If you actually cared about what a community organizer is/does (I honestly don't know)

+10 points for having the balls to admit you don't know what qualifies Obama to be President.

I can't speak for others, but his better judgment on the key issues of the day are what qualifies him to me. Sure, experience is great, but it's not everything; I'd rather have someone who is right on the issues than someone who has experience any day of the week and twice on Tuesdays.

In all fairness, what little of judgment I've seen, makes me less likely to vote for Obama.  He's associated two people, that he knows (Wright and the Catholic Priest), that he's had to remove.  He's showed poor judgment in his dealings with Rezko.

Now, none of those things are major, IMO, but we don't have a lot of examples of his judgment.  We have Obama saying, "I was against the war, but I didn't look at the intelligence reports either."

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Both comments are demonstrably false, historically, since we had substantially more experienced presidents prior to 1856 (Harrison, van Buren, Jackson, and Tyler come to mind) and at least one (Tayor) who never voted in his life.