What were Obama's achievements as community organizer. Since, nobody seems to be able to enumerate them, and seem an expert on the matter, perhaps you can enlighten us,

When the question is ready, the google appears!

Quoth the non-definitive wiki:

After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side.[11][13] During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens.[14] Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[15

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_obama

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You know, the pity is that this is down to a game. If you really wanted to know, you would google it yourself. Then we could focus on important crap, like what to do about the USD and what will happen if or when it is no longer the world's reserve currency. Carry On. We return you to your regularly scheduled snark.

If you're truly interested in knowing what Obama did as an organizer, U.S. New & World Report and many other respected publications have already 'enumerated' some of his accomplishments. And as an extra added bonus, those articles are available online. Unless that was just some kind of misdirection tactic. If so, please excuse me.

I wonder where the campaign would be now, if Hillary had dropped out of the race when she was mathematically beaten, instead of trying to convert superdelegates by attacking Obama as unqualified and claiming to be the victim of the media and sexism?

Regarding beauty queens, McCain is three for three: both wives and his V.P. pick.

This "in-your-face" attack is what will win the republicans the presidential seat this term too!

One more reason why i love Republicans. Even when they are underdogs, they come out swinging.

One more nail in Obama's campaign.

Iam pretty sure Palin-McCain will win this election now.

Not because they are qualified, but because they simply know how to win people's minds and win the votes.

Obama is too high handed for ordinary Joe voters: he is too perfect to be the right candidate. Like Al Gore.

Democrats again deserve to lose this election and WILL lose this november.

I only wish Democrats lose the House this november: This will teach them to run a "real" campaign and not a "polite gentleman's" campaign to lose.

If the Republicans win this election (and they sure will do), Karl Rove will be Knighted or atleast given a very important cabinet post for winning against all odds.

By refusing to tear into Palin's personal problems, Obama has shown he is simply incapable of being "presidential". He is a good man, a good writer and a good orator: But a president??? Nahhh you need a "real" man. Obama is just not right.

Biden though would be ideal.

This was your most blindly partisan post in the last year that I have been reading your Salon notes.

I saw Sarah Palin's comments about Obama as accurate and smart parries to the Obama camps elitist dismissals of her small town experience. While I do not agree with her policies, there is definitely a double standard in assessing her credentials versus Obama. Promoting this double standard is both sexist and likely to backfire.

There continues to be an utter failure by the media, in general, to legitimately and objectively question Obama's shortcomings. Governor Palin simply said the emperor has no clothes. I hope that you are not finally buying into the school of thought that any questioning or criticism of Obama is unfair, by definition.

Has it become, we let you decide?

Funny how much attention and sympathy Gov. Palin is getting when she bawls about the "sexist" media. All the wingnuts b***'n'moan in chorus with her, a grand yowl of indignant victimization. And Palin is just getting the "factual investigation" treatment, not anything like the offhand denigration that Candidate Clinton received.

Funny how virtually nobody on the left had a word of sympathy, much less outrage, when Sen. Clinton was being told to "iron my shirts", her ankles mocked, and all the rest. Most of the left (not to mention the middle and right) denied there was any sexism involved at all, and it came close to dividing the Democratic Party.

Well, maybe it's not actually very funny. Unless you're a Republican. They'll be laughing all the way to the bank.

The GOP plays the fiddle of nastiness while the American economy burns. Completely tone-deaf to what is happening out here in the real universe.

And I thank you for it.

I was feeling fatalistic, demoralized by the evening's proceedings. I felt viscerally for the first time that the Republicans are going to win again and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

The U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A! particularly unnerved me, underwritten as it was be some real vitriol and, as you so aptly put it, contempt. They are contemptuous people, to be sure: small, ugly, yet unduly and dangerously powerful.

I fear that xenophobia will carry the day, once again and the choice of Palin was masterful.

Your assessment has given me a little lift and I thank you for it.

JOAN'S DESCRIPTION OF GOV. PALIN'S ATTACK AS "RUDY GIULIANI IN HEELS" IS DEAD-ON. BUT STILL, NOBODY DOES RUDY GIULIANI IN HEELS SO WELL AS THE MAN HIMSELF, RUDY GIULIANI, DOES RUDY GIULIANI IN HEELS.

Sleepy and dreary John McCain was heading towards a 10% loss, or worse. Now it's going to be interesting again because everybody has someone they can identify with or against. I only hope there are enough voting machines out there to handle a 60% turnout. It may be too early to say, but this woman could do some damage to the Obama-Biden runaway combination.

We should check back next week after she has had more time to develop a stump speech, but will she "wear" well? The Mike Huckabee flash lasted about 10 days and people started to tune him out as a case of "NFW". I suspect this woman will be in our midst for longer than 10 days.

Unfortunately, the rest of the world will be holding their breath because much of this race will be determined on the basis of style and cultural values, which blows people away in other countries. This woman oozes charm and cultural values are about all she has. Aside from the debates, it will be light on substance because it is too difficult or almost impossible to deliver a knockout punch on the policy points. Swing voters are not swayed on the basis of arcane policy issues unless, for example, somebody conflates universal healthcare with illegal immigration, or something like that. Obama dreads these "gotcha" issues because he feels compelled to triangulate his way around or through the issue. McCain makes no such attempt and falls back on sloganeering or something safe. We have no idea what this woman will say because she is not experienced enough to know when to dodge the question or change the subject. She could say something simply charming and the whole world will be charmed with her simplicity. That is the big risk for a "deep thinker" like Obama.