To: Elroy who wrote (380935 ) 4/28/2008 10:56:59 AM From: i-node Respond to It damned sure is what you said.What nonsense. He's been able to get himself into the leading spot to be Democratic candidate for President, something less than 6 0r 7 living people have been able to do. If you think that that is not a significant accomplishment, go ahead, you give it a try, see how far you get! He appears to have run an excellent campaign which shows management skills. And he's an excellent leader/speaker, people like him, and he's intelligent. Good enough for me. His "track record" is Harvard, a family, and various levels of community service, things which he developed over years and decades. Then he got a call from Jerry Kellman, an organizer working on Chicago's far South Side for a community group based in the churches of the region, an expanse of white, black and Latino blue-collar neighborhoods that were reeling from the steel-mill closings. Kellman was looking for an organizer for the new Developing Communities Project (DCP), which would focus on black city neighborhoods.struck board members as "awesome" and "extremely impressive," and they quickly hired him, at $13,000 a year, plus $2,000 for a car--a beat-up blue Honda Civic, which Obama drove for the next three years organizing more than twenty congregations to change their neighborhoods.Despite some meaningful victories, the work of Obama--and hundreds of other organizers--did not transform the South Side or restore lost industries.
