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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (265814)	9/4/2008 4:31:05 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793914

But I thought to myself, have I heard Obama being asked that question before? I don't think so, 'community organizer' has seemed a magic incantation to display Obama's caring. That's how he tried to couch it in his response. Something along the lines of his work was trying to help disadvantaged people in the community, and nowhere did he hear from the Republicans what they proposed to do to help those disadvantaged people. Blah, Blah, Blah, Blather, Blather, Blather.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (265814)	9/4/2008 4:44:26 PM
From: DMaA	4 Recommendations Respond to of 793914

Here's another point of view of Chicago Community Organizers: econopundit.com Thursday, September 04, 2008 The problem with those "community organizers"... A few MSM commentators last night took extreme offense at Republican mocking of Obama's "community organizer" experience. There will be a strong backlash, they said. Folks like Obama are highly valued by all those communities they "organize." Yet there's a problem with all this, and one simply can't recognize the problem unless one owns and/or works in a small community-based business like mine. To owners of small community-based businesses, and to the workers who show up at these businesses every day, "community organizers" are more often than not nothing more than shakedown artists. Sometimes they can be friendly and professional. Just as often, however, they present themselves as something between mildly hostile to downright threatening. Do these visitors really represent the "community?" To small business owners and their workers the answer is "no." It is we -- paricipants in business -- who show up and work in the community day in and day out. We pay our bills, pay our taxes, meet the payroll, and do all this work in this very community. By showing up and doing our daily jobs, we are the true community organizers. UPDATE: During the coming days let's just see how many angry small business owners and workers throughout the country rise up in righteous indignation at Republican insults to their valued, cherished "community organizers." Listen carefully and to hear just how important are "community organizers" to real people in their everyday lives.