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Nothing wrong with being a street organizer. Skills he he picked up helped him run one of the best organized and effective primary campaigns in American history. It'll help him again in November.

If they hadn't put "Street Organizer" in scare quotes, where the rest of the bullet points for his various jobs don't have those, it wouldn't raise the same kind of questions. The use of quotation marks skews the reading of any phrase. Consider:

*"Street Organizer" in Chicago
*"Lawyer"
*Law "School Senior" Lecturer
*1997 Part-time "Illinois" State Senator
*2005 "Sworn" in as Illinois "Junior" US Senator

Now, take the same list above, and remove all the quotes *except* those around "Street Organizer." If it's a legitimate professional term, on par with community activist, then why put it in quotes? When Obama used it to describe his own work, I doubt he was putting it in quotes - and it's the quotes that make it seem questionable.

My bigger problem with the video is the fact that it skips from "Street Organizer" to "1997 Part-time Illinois State Senator." This is just a pathetic attempt to obfuscate Obama's work as a civil rights lawyer and law professor. And what's with the "part-time?" Aren't all state senators in Illinois effectively "part-time?" Isn't that a bit unnecessary?

Sheesh. It's not racist, but it is ham-handed.

Geez, Michelle looks like a street walker. What's the big deal?

of course the Republicans can never win an election that does not involve fear and lies and pitting one group against another. Typical GOP crap

There is another answer to the energy crisis: oil shale extraction. We have enough to extract about 1.1 TRILLION barrels, and the vast majority of the deposits are on public land.

The problem has been getting someone to invest in solving the related economic and environmental issues, with the CW saying it would be cost-effective once oil hits $100 per barrel.

Well that day is here, and it is time for a moon shot level committment by the government to get this going.

Just another term the so-called 'conservatives' are trying to trash.

Remember when 'liberal' meant educated and enlightened, as opposed to living in a cave believing in a bunch of old wives tales and superstitions?

If these 'conservatives' had remained in charge, we'd still be living the way people did thousands of years ago. Are you better off now.... ;-)

Obama WAS INDEED a street organizer.

So?

Seems to help a wee bit in getting oneself elected, doesn't it?

Liberaterians = Bob Barr 15% vote

Republicans = John McCain 38 % vote

Democrats = Barack Obama 57% vote

POTUS = Obama

Winner = America

Obama 08 "nuff said"

Len, you wrote: "The ONLY way to bring down the cost of gas is to reduce the demand." Increasing supply will ALSO lower the cost of gasoline.

If the Democrats and environmentalists hadn't blocked new drilling (specifically offshore drilling) and building new refineries for the past two decades; and if they hadn't blocked every attempt to build additional nuclear plants, gasoline would be much cheaper today!

Geevill, the Democrats have been in control of both Houses of Congress for almost 18 months now. They haven't done a thing to relieve the burden of the high cost of energy. And they have blocked every attempt by President Bush! Yet you want to give the Democrats a larger majority in both Houses of Congress AND the White House. A vote for the Democrats this fall is a vote for massive increases in the price of gas (on top of the $1-$3 raise of the federal tax on gasoline the Democrats plan to implement).

Oil Barrel prices
Unemployment

Yet we will continue to whine and make up things. I still don't get it

Cognitive Dissonance, you wrote: "I oppose the ridiculous tax cuts that George Bush has given to the wealthiest individuals and corporations." So what about the bottom two tax brackets being lowered? The 2001 Bush tax cuts lowered the 15% bracket to 10%; and the 28% bracket to 15%. Oh and the top 50% of the nations wage earners now account for 97% of the total income tax revenue! That means the bottom 50% of the nations wage earners account for just THREE PERCENT of the total income tax revenue!

The Malibu Kid, yesterday Tony Rezko was found guilty on 16 of the 24 counts.

I like well organized streets.

OBAMA FOR PRESIDENT!

Like everything else - it's okay if Obama or a supporter says it, racist if an opponent says it.

This hypersensitivity on race is just plain tiresome. Obama and his surrogates need to read "The Boy Who Cried Wolf." Obama is used to tending his massive heard of stupid sheep on the protected ground of the primary. There, he has cried "wolf" against the Clinton's so many times no one is going to listen to his squeals when the Republicans bite. Serves him right.

Who and what did Obama organize in Chicago and how effective was he. He's supposed to be such a great leader but who has he led? And where did they go and what did they do when they got there? JFK was also a young man, about the age of Obama as the Obama camp loves to point out. But JFK had actually led men into batttle, heroically even and yet his first year in office was mostly a disaster. The same with Bill Clinton. Now, only McCain has the experience needed to be an effective president from day one. I vote for America first, not the party.

the Left needs to learn how to pick their battles.

this is just the beginning. they'll be wishing they hadn't run Hillary to the ground come November.

I despise the war. I cannot stand the Unitary (Self Appointed King)Executive theory. I do not believe in illegal spying programs on Americans. I oppose the ridiculous tax cuts that George Bush has given to the wealthiest individuals and corporations. I believe America should be a beacon of ligt for the world. I oppose torture and kangaroo military tribunals for "enemy combatants". John McCain supports all of these things so I must be of diminished intellect if I would vote for him just because my Democratic candidate John Edwards did not win the election. No different if my candidate was Hillary. If you state you are a Democrat and are going to vote for John McCain, you have either diminished intellectual capacity or you are a GOP operative that is sock puppeting and lying. Two notorious traits of GOP's.

WOW!! After reading these posts, I can see very clearly that racism is alive and well in America! It hasn't went anywhere at all! It is amazing that so many people can still be so ignorant in 2008. Seems like people would focus on the important issues, do some REAL research to see what the candidates stand for, and last but not least (though obviously the hardest for many) sit down and hold an intelligent, respectful conversation with other people regardless of race or party. That would be the sensible thing to do, but then again, I guess being racist means you are incapable of being sensible. Get your mind right America, like it or not, we are all Americans and in this together.