More on Obama's community organizing days..one thing that I've gotten re: due diligence on Obama is the consistency of his values/beliefs, strategies for change..ie., just like he handled Hillary for the most part until he mocked her via Annie Oakley, he's insisted throughout his life about staying away from the politics of destruction...
I'm parking this also to have in our "database" here how no matter how the right wing/Rove tries to paint him an elitist, or a Wright-inspired closet racist, his life-time career and personal life put a lie to these accusations..imo..
Btw, who doesn't think that Rove is so jealous of Obama after reading his latest?
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Obama arrived in Chicago in 1985 with a college degree, a map of the city and a new job — community organizer.
Starting salary: Just over $10,000 plus enough money to buy a beat-up Honda.
Obama was a stranger to Chicago, but living abroad gave him experience as an outsider and a natural empathy for people without money and power, says Gerald Kellman, the man who hired him…
"He seemed to listen well and he learned fast," Kellman says. But even though Obama worked with people trained by Saul Alinsky, the father of community organizing, he didn't adopt hard-nose tactics.
"He did not like personal confrontation," Kellman says. "He had no trouble challenging power and challenging people on issues. When it came to face-to-face situations, he valued civility a great deal. ... When it came to negotiating conflict, he was very good at that. ... He was not one to get drawn into a protracted conflict that involves personalities." |
