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Originally Posted by dc_dux
pan....read this profile in The Nation
Obama's Community RootsObama, only 24, 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....
...He honed his talent for listening, learned pragmatic strategy, practiced bringing varied people together...
...virtually everyone described him in glowing terms, including dedicated, hard-working, dependable, intelligent, inspiring, a good listener, confident but self-effacing. They expressed admiration for him as an organizer who trained strong community leaders while keeping himself in the background and as a strategist who could turn general problems into specific, winnable issues....
...Obama's organizing history may give few clues about what policies he would pursue as President, but Obama the presidential candidate still shows his roots--a faith in ordinary citizens, a quest for common ground and a pragmatic inclination toward defining issues in winnable ways.... Although, I wont be surprised if you find a way to twist it....to somehow imply that he took that $13,000 /yr job as part of a long term plan to gain power through greed and corruption. |
Ye of little faith.
I appreciate that reply. It is nice to see what he did do. IF he would capitalize on his past more instead of letting associations be brought more to the surface, maybe it'd benefit him.
To me right now, it's hard to know what to believe anymore.... and I am past the point of caring. I know who I am voting for and why and the cons in doing so.... but this election is definitely not a choice of 2 great leaders, it is more likely to go down as one of the worst {and not necessarily by the winner's making}. But time and history will tell.
I do wish the winner luck and will stand behind the man elected as President and respect him as much as I can.