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(I’ll warn you in advance, this is a politics-influenced rant, but it does relate to community issues!)
During last night’s keynote speech by Rudy Giuliani at the Republican National Convention, Giuliani poked at Barack Obama’s former work as a commu ... Continue reading »
During last night’s keynote speech by Rudy Giuliani at the Republican National Convention, Giuliani poked at Barack Obama’s former work as a commu ... Continue reading »
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This is the part of the movie where the people figure out that power, influence, and ideas can be taken away and redistributed through effort and engagement.
Sounds to me like the very definition of Social Media.
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Googling "What does a Community Organizer do?" returns several helpful links:
http://tinyurl.com/5gg4ba
http://tinyurl.com/5rz255
...are just two such links. Here's the best answer I've seen:
"A community organizer does things for the people that the mayor, the city council, and other politicians and public officials can't or won't do."
Union leaders could be considering "community organizers", FYI. Unions like the one Palin's husband is a member of.
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I'm no "leftie", but that doesn't matter really. That's not the issue here. Community organizing isn't a joke, nor is Obama's experience with it as it relates to his OVERALL experience. I really don't want to take this too political, but if he was doing this YESTERDAY that'd be one thing. But this was years ago and speaks to how he thinks and approaches problems, not what he has been doing. He has 4 years in the national Senate and 11 years in the Illinois state senate. Let's not pretend that he's just fallen off some potatoe truck.
Besides that, while the spin of that sad, sad moment at the RNC might be that people were simply laughing at the experience in relation to the position, I think we all know better than that.
But that's enough on the political side. Let's get back to the discussion of how this relations to online and offline community building.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mAAxCg2CC4
Rudy says "He worked as a community organizer", crowd laughs.
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And I am a lefty. And highly insulted by the Republicans. The spin from them now is that we - the "lefties" just don't get it: either don't get the "joke" - hahahaha - or don't "get" that Giuliani and Palin weren't denigrating community organizers....oh, no...just that Obama should not use his experience, etc etc as another commenter here tried to spin it. But, as you rightly pointed out, and as the actual speeches show, that's not what was said, or implied. With speechwriters as good as they had, you'd think they could have been clearer to just call Obama out on HIS experience. But they didn't have the balls to do that. So they resorted to insulting a whole, general group of very noble, hardworking, selfless people, community organizers.
Nice to see you slap your commenters down, too, when they try to spin.
www.community-organizer.com