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RNC Calls Obama a Former "Street Organizer"
June 06, 2008 12:51 PM
The Republican National Committee's new video about Sen. Barack Obama describes the former community organizer, who worked in the 1980s with churches and depressed areas of Chicago to provide job training and other projects, as a "street organizer."
"Street organizer"?
The word choice has some on the Left up in arms.
Over at The Nation, Chris Hayes writes, "Nice. Frankly, in order to elicit the maximum degree of racial stereotyping I would have gone with 'ghetto operative' or 'slum captain' but I suppose that would have been too obvious."
Says Matthew Yglesias, "Stay classy, RNC!"
I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure "street organizer" was the job description of Superfly.
- jpt
UPDATE: The RNC notes that Obama was referred to as a "street organizer" in a February 15, 2007, Chicago Sun-Times story that apparently aroused no liberal ire at the time: "Only in the world of politics, Michelle Obama said, after she highlighted Obama's resume -- from street organizer to the Illinois Senate -- 'would insiders dare to look at those accomplishments and dare to have the audacity to say he is not ready.'"
UPDATE II: An event better retort from the RNC. On Obama's own website, campaign staffers have posted a New York Times story that quotes an Illinois state senator saying, "I remember (Democratic state sen.)Rickey (Hendon) chiding Obama that, 'What do you know, Barack? You grew up in Hawaii and you live in Hyde Park. What do you know about the street?' To which Obama shot back: 'I know a lot. I didn't exactly have a rosy childhood. I'm a street organizer by profession and a lot of my area, once you get outside the University of Chicago neighborhoods, is just as tough as your West Side, Rickey.' "
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It does not matter what they try to call him now, because in November they will have to call him Mr. President!!
Posted by: leslie | Jun 6, 2008 2:31:09 PM
Dems to Repubs, "You can't say that, you see that's our phrase, we can say that to each other but when it comes from you it's unclassy."
Repubs to Dems, (referring to Democrats as a whole) "I don't understand you people."
Dems to Repubs, "What do you mean you people!?"
LOL!
Posted by: Mike | Jun 6, 2008 2:28:57 PM
HRC Supporters = Victim Spiral
Posted by: Fired UP!! | Jun 6, 2008 2:28:20 PM
John McCain is George Bush's lapdog! No 3rd term!
Posted by: Pete | Jun 6, 2008 2:20:00 PM
Sweetie Nat Turner:
Just as condescending and sexist as the BO, I see. I'm not surprised. That is the norm with BO supporters. They're just as rude as he is.
Get clue, BO isn't the nominee and there's a lot of time between now and August. Many things can happen between now and then. That's too bad for BO and too bad for you! We'll see how cocky your are then. My guess is, you won't be laughing.
Posted by: Vickie | Jun 6, 2008 2:16:48 PM
Joe no matter how you try. The SENSIBLE whites in all the country will never vote for a dope crack head like Obama and his Comrades WRIGHT AND REZKO with his pay to play politics.
Hillary was just tryin to save the Dmocrat party from imploding onto it self. WAKE UP out of you CULT dream already
Posted by: as way | Jun 6, 2008 2:15:24 PM
What were they when they voted against Kerry?
Posted by: Mack | Jun 6, 2008 2:08:29 PM
Obama is a Harvard grad that doesn't know how many states there are.
Posted by: Mack | Jun 6, 2008 2:02:39 PM
McCain doesn't know where he is or what year it is! He's confused and angry, and he's not gonna take it anymore!
Posted by: Pete | Jun 6, 2008 2:00:36 PM
WOW!!! Her supporters are crazy!! Most of them seem like man haters now.
Posted by: Joe | Jun 6, 2008 1:54:00 PM
hey i saw on msnbc that KARL ROVE will be helping mcsame this summer so get ready for lies and more lies about obama they really cant find anything so they will resort to lies but just wait obama camp aint even begun the dirt on mccain but at least what they have is TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: angiee | Jun 6, 2008 1:49:37 PM
The only thing McCain should be president of is the AARP!
Posted by: Pete | Jun 6, 2008 1:46:37 PM
I don't care. They can say what they want, but in Nov. they will have to say that they got beat by a Black inexperienced street organizer.
This man is stronger than they can imagine
Obama08
Posted by: Thinking | Jun 6, 2008 1:43:50 PM
nat turner,
obama told me to tell you to stop supporting him.
because you don't represent or stand for anything obama stands for.
obama to nat turner-"don't try to help me-and don't support me"
Posted by: superfly | Jun 6, 2008 1:43:35 PM
What he really meant was.....
Posted by: Mack | Jun 6, 2008 1:43:09 PM
Joe: No he is NOT the nominee. No votes have been cast for him. Until they are cast for him at the August convention, he remains the "presumptive" nominee.
Posted by: Vickie | Jun 6, 2008 1:39:17 PM
Obama also called himself a "street organizer" in the July 30, 2007
Posted by: MayBee | Jun 6, 2008 1:35:13 PM
No American is ready to listen to the flip-ploping of the republicans, at one time they say Obama is an elitist at another he was a street organizer. They have nothing to say, apart from loosing
Posted by: Ngemason | Jun 6, 2008 1:33:15 PM
They'll use whatever it takes to win.
Don't take it personally.
Posted by: Mack | Jun 6, 2008 1:32:40 PM
Hey at least he graduated. Do we need to look at Obama's SAT scores?
Posted by: Mack | Jun 6, 2008 1:29:50 PM
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