Quote from Pa(b)st Prime:
You're big on citations but could you post something about Obama "reducing poverty." I mean get off the friggin' drugs. The only poverty reduction Obama has been responsible for is Michelle's.
"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.[12][14] 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.[15] Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[16]"
That's just Wikipedia, but it looks accurate.
You're like everyone else whose knowledge of Obama extends all the way back to 6 months ago. His "community" work was mostly voter registration.
Ummm... no, that's incorrect. See above. He did go on to successfully organize registration of 400,000 voters, but that was later.
For who? For future candidate Obama. Did he register any blacks outside of Alice Palmer's Illinois Senate district?
Presumably yes. Project vote, the group that he was eventually director of, is currently active in 11 states, and out of the 400,000 voters he registered, only about 150,000 seem to have been in Illinois.
http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-1993/Vote-of-Confidence/
Oh yea, around 16 years ago he spent 3 months working with laid off steelworkers. Jeez and to think I could've used my two semesters of Social Justice on Chicago's West Side as fodder for my own thin Congressional CV.
Other than working in private practice, the private sector, charity, authorship, and the public sector, what else do you think he should have done to flesh out his experience?
Why not at least investigate REAL, ACTUAL, TANGIBLE "changes" that an elected legislator SHOULD be responsible for. Are graduation rates in Obama's South Side higher today? Jobless rates lower? Is funding for green friendly transit in place?
Transit? That's municipal. Graduation rates are school board. African American voter registration is up from his work, though.
Is their even a SINGLE person (other than Michelle, Rezko and Wright) who can say with a straight face"thanks to Barracks <strike> tireless work</strike> endless campaigning our community has a higher quality of life."
Well since he voted for increasing the minimum wage to $6.15 during his tenure in the state senate, I would say, again, that the poor would say that.
Also could you provide linkage showing any reference to Obama promising to make even a penny of cuts to the military budget? How much of the Iraq savings will be offset by his promise to send more troops into Afghanistan?
I haven't heard him say such a thing. In fact, he seems to be fairly conservative in his views in that regard. You can see his fairly detailed (for a presidential candidate) 60 page position paper here:
http://www.barackobama.com/pdf/ObamaBlueprintForChange.pdf
Can you provide linkage to any bills passed by the Senate that were SPEARHEADED (perhaps with a black candidate-a poor choice of word) by Obama. Or bills in which he was a sole sponsor?
Sure, here:
http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress...s-voting-record-in-the-illinois-state-senate/
The bill does not require that the fuel be produced without increasing greenhouse gas emissions, though it does offer tax incentives to encourage the use of technology that captures carbon dioxide.â
Yes, that's called carbon sequestration.
