CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah but also, Chuck, and this is tricky business. . . They're giggling over the community organizer role as if it's, has, it carries more freight than just a job you once had. Is this the new "welfare queen?" Is this a new symbol, that we're talking about here?

No, Chrissy.  'MSNBC News anchor' is the new 'welfare queen.'

Congratulations on getting fired from the easiest job on TV, chump!

Hey let's not be bashing the Community Organizer Barack Obama, he has all those little cards printed up CO BO.

Clarence Page, which Newsbusters missed stated on the McGlaughlin group defending CO BO that Obama saved Chicago's southside more than God, the Mayor and the Police Chief in how important a CO was to a community in protecting it from "evil white corporations who decend to buy up land, force people out and build evil corporations".

Ok for a Obama reality check and Page fact check.

Why in the heck would any corporation go into an area where there was no skilled work force and a massive crime problem?

The answer is it wouldn't and that is why you do not find Boeing, Microsoft and Apple in downtown Chicago........not because Obama was saving the community.

But Page apparently was correct in Barack Obama saved Chicago people from high paying jobs, futures and easy retirement by chasing away all the businesses who would have given his community jobs.

Suck on that Chris Matthews as a reality brain sprain for your mind.

IF THE WORLD WANTS TO KNOW WHAT AMERICA WILL BE LIKE, let us look at Chicago's southside, a place where gay black people like Donald Young were being murdered who were Obama's best friend and no one has solved the case.........and a place where poverty reigns.

That is what community organizer Obama was about.

Should not Newsbusters be doing research on just how many murders, rapes, robberies, white collar crimes, businesses lost etc.... that occurred under Barack Obama's stewardship of Chicago as Clarence Page has told the world messiah Obama ruled Chicago more importantly than God.

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From the WSJ/Best of the Web.. the finest demolition of the rather pathetic Barack Obam's time as a "community organizer." Man is this guy lame or what.

Please God, save America from this fraud.

South Side Veterans for Truth
By JAMES TARANTO
Last week we wrote that " 'community organizer' is to Barack Obama what 'war hero' was to John Kerry." We didn't know the half of it.

Kerry staked his claim to the presidency on the pretense that he was a war hero, notwithstanding his showy repudiation decades earlier of the war and his fellow veterans. According to a new exposé in the liberal New Republic, Obama, before embarking on a career in politics, similarly, albeit quietly, repudiated "community organizing," only to re-embrace it decades later, apparently out of political expediency.

TNR's John Judis tracked down Jerry Kellman, who in 1985 "hired Obama to organize residents of Chicago's South Side." Kellman describes a conversation the two "community organizers" had at a conference on "social justice" in October 1987:

"[Obama] wanted to marry and have children, and to have a stable income," Kellman recalls.
But Obama was also worried about something else. He told Kellman that he feared community organizing would never allow him "to make major changes in poverty or discrimination." To do that, he said, "you either had to be an elected official or be influential with elected officials." In other words, Obama believed that his chosen profession was getting him nowhere, or at least not far enough. . . .
And so, Obama told Kellman, he had decided to leave community organizing and go to law school.

Another way of putting this might be that Obama left community organizing because he wanted a job in which he had actual responsibilities (and, of course, earned more money).

But Obama did not decide only that "community organizing" was not for him. Judis reports the future senator took part in a September 1989 symposium in which he "rejected the guiding principles of community organizing: the elevation of self-interest over moral vision; the disdain for charismatic leaders and their movements; and the suspicion of politics itself." Later, Obama "would begin to construct a political identity for himself that was not simply different from his identity as a community organizer--but was, in fact, its very opposite."

Judis offers the closest thing we've heard to a job description for "community organizers." What they do, he writes, is "unite people of different backgrounds around common goals and use their collective strength to wring concessions from the powers that be." To help illuminate this rather vague description, Judis also enumerates some of the tasks Obama and his colleagues undertook.

Before Obama's arrival in Chicago, Kellman and his "partner," Mike Kruglik, set out "to revive the region's manufacturing base--and preserve what remained of its steel industry--by working with unions and church groups to pressure companies and the city; but those hopes were quickly dashed." Apparently the presence of "community organizers" is not a strong selling point for companies making location decisions. Go figure.

Obama set his sights lower, but still missed the mark. He "got community members to demand a job center that would provide job referrals, but there were few jobs to distribute." Then "he tried to create what he called a 'second-level consumer economy' . . . consisting of shops, restaurants, and theaters. This, too, went nowhere."

These efforts at economic development having failed, Obama "began to focus on providing social services for Altgeld Gardens," a government-owned and -operated apartment complex:

"We didn't yet have the power to change state welfare policy, or create local jobs, or bring substantially more money into the schools," [Obama] wrote. "But what we could do was begin to improve basic services at Altgeld--get the toilets fixed, the heaters working, the windows repaired." Obama helped the residents wage a successful campaign to get the Chicago Housing Authority to promise to remove asbestos from the units; but, after an initial burst of activity, the city failed to keep its promise. (As of last year, some residences still had not been cleared of asbestos.)

t is both funny and scary that one of America's major political parties would offer this record of sheer futility as its nominee's chief qualification to be president of the United States. Even more striking, though, is how alien the world in which Obama operated was by comparison with the world in which normal Americans live.

Reader, when your toilet breaks, do you wait around for some Ivy League hotshot to show up and organize a meeting so that you can use your collective strength to wring concessions from the powers that be?

Or do you call a plumber?

As a "community organizer," Obama toiled within a subculture of such abject dependency that even home repairs were "social services," provided by government (or, in Obama's Chicago, not provided). It was an utterly bizarre intersection between the cultural elite and the underclass. By Judis's account, Obama's Columbia degree was useless. He would have been more helpful if he'd gone to vocational school instead.

Judis quotes an Altgeld resident as telling Obama, "Ain't nothing gonna change. . . . We just gonna concentrate on saving our money so we can move outta here as fast as we can." Certainly no one can fault Obama for doing the same thing. But what did Obama move outta there do to? To become a politician--specifically, an "idealistic" politician who wants "to make major changes in poverty." Guys like that created this mess in the first place.

In his political career, has Obama done or even said anything to suggest that he has a different approach to "poverty," one that would reduce dependency rather than promote it? His recent rediscovery of the glories of "community organizing" certainly isn't an encouraging sign.

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Sure looks to me like Matthews has been sufficiently chastised.  

Community organizers are thugs holding candlelight vigils.  

I registered at Kos to do "opposition" research: START FIGHTS!!

Those clowns are more deflated than Obama's tire pressure!!  Chris is clearly stunned on todays HB.  Olby is hiding in the bathtub. AND...WAIT FOR IT....

KOSSACKS ARE TALKING BOYCOTT OF MSNBC!!!  JOY!!!

God save my soul...going back in...wish me luck...

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I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

This is Chris Matthews, one of the FORMER anchors at MSNBC we're discussing, right?  I'd hate to say anything negative about a DIFFERENT Chris Matthews that I don't even know.