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Community Organizer in Chief

Our president has as much of a problem with the experience he has as with the experience he lacks.

Mark Steyn and Hugh Hewitt were talking on Hewitt’s radio show when Hewitt suggested that Barack Obama does not know how to be president. Steyn shoehorned that comment into a column about Obama’s “crassly parochial narcissism,” supporting the dig with familiar examples, most recently presidential failure to return from a trip to Asia with anything more than fodder for a Saturday Night Live sketch.

Steyn and Hewitt are not alone in thinking the president ill-equipped for his job, and so it makes sense to ask “why” rather than “whether” he makes so many mistakes. Obama’s defenders treat those mistakes as the occupational hazards of anyone in his position, but the White House itself undercuts their argument by treating almost everything Obama does as unprecedented. Anyone who claims unique success must also concede the possibility of unique failure.

Critics often write about President Obama’s lack of executive experience as though it were the one shortcoming that explains everything from diplomatic gaffes to vetting problems and typos on state dinner menus. Three years from now, the same people will be writing stories about how Obama has grown in office. Unfortunately, treating experience like the object of a quest bestows more nobility on President Obama than a sober reading of his work would allow. Our president has as much of a problem with the experience he has as with the experience he lacks.

When Barack Obama humbled Hillary Clinton, the campaign orchestrated for him by Democratic fixers was widely misread as a thing of genius. Because Hillary has fans who delude themselves into thinking of her as the smartest woman in America, an influential few figured that anyone who beat her had to be even smarter. But smooth is not the same as smart, and neither smooth nor smart should be confused with effective. In fact, there is more evidence for saying that Obama is vindictive than for saying he is smart, and that matters when smarts are supposed to compensate for inexperience.

Remember how Obama’s college transcripts, his curious failure to write anything for the Harvard Law Review while editing that publication, and his habitual votes of “present” in the Illinois State Senate were frog-marched down the memory hole? Only later did we learn that those questions from his past keep company with Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, Bill Ayers, Samantha Power, Greg Craig, and anyone else (sincere or cynical) who breaks a potluck promise by arriving at Chez Obama with nachos and bean dip rather than a platter of Wagyu Steaks.

Obama’s legislative career was too short to be distinguished, and he got little campaign leverage from his stint as a lecturer in constitutional law once his enthusiasm for Roe v. Wade and his nuanced-to-the-point-of-neutering relationship with the Second Amendment became common knowledge. As a result, the most interesting part of his pre-presidential experience is his time as a community organizer.

Supporters were quick to defend that part of his background when Sarah Palin quipped that “being a small-town mayor is sort of like [being] a community organizer, except you have actual responsibilities.”

Her barb stampeded Democrats into swelling the ranks of community organizers with as many cherry-picked names as they could find. They drafted everyone from Clara Barton and Crazy Horse to Lech Walesa while trying to give Obama a better pedigree. Some Democrats even elbowed carpenters and rabbis aside to call Jesus a community organizer.

These partisans ignored anyone scripturally literate enough to observe that Jesus deputized “community organizing” chores to Peter and the other apostles. Worse, no one trying to draft Jesus for Obama asked why a rabbi allegedly organizing other Jews spent so much of His public ministry flouting their expectations, and no one in that little movement noticed that Jesus told his apostles to preach the gospel past community boundaries to the ends of the Earth. That Obama seems to think he has the same reach (and nearly the same significance) helps explain why his more fervent supporters don’t see anything weird about looking at Jesus through Obama instead of the other way around.

As one of the people trying to draft Jesus for Obama, Joe Klein of Time magazine rubbed Sarah Palin out of his disbelieving eyes to complain that community organizers are “doing the Lord’s work.” At some level removed from President Obama he might have a point, but it is absurd to think that off-the-rails mentors like Frank Marshall Davis, Bill Ayers, and Jeremiah Wright offered Barry O a blueprint for such work.

ACORN itself hints at the limits of using that brand of activism as a steppingstone to executive responsibility. While neither the ACORN website nor the Wikipedia entry on community organizing is definitive, both are instructive. According to its website, ACORN exists to “bring neighbors together to work for stronger, safer, and more just communities.” These goals are met through “issue campaigns, service delivery, ballot initiatives, and voter participation.”

The Wikipedia entry on community organizers traces that label back to Saul Alinsky, and describes their work as “a process by which people living in proximity to each other are brought together in an organization to act in their shared self-interest.” The entry also says that unlike community development, which “generally assumes that groups and individuals can work together collaboratively without significant conflict or struggles over power to solve community challenges,” community organizing takes conflict and power struggles for granted.

Reading the ACORN and Wikipedia descriptions leaves the impression that community organizers strive to equip other people for political combat, usually by facilitating meetings. Unfortunately for a president who leans heavily on such experience, neither of those skills animates a nonpartisan outlook or sharpens decision-making ability.

Anyone weaned on ideologies whose sole purpose is to “Stick it to the Man” is keenly aware of office perks, and so Mr. Hope and Change stiffed allies like Great Britain and Poland. He set a first-year foreign travel record, but has little to show for it, as can be seen when even a sympathetic columnist quotes Henry Kissinger reaching for a chess metaphor to wonder whether Obama has a middle game, while a Latvian official worries about Obama making democracy unfashionable.

At home, Obama found time to play a lot of golf.

Reflexive disdain for authority other than his own also explains why President Obama pontificates about everything from the Cambridge Police Department to “smarter diplomacy” that isn’t. According to rules learned early in his life and reinforced by experience fresh out of college, whatever vexes the powers that be must be called successful. To be fair, some other politicians think the same way. They have that in common with many of the people serving prison terms.

topics:
Barack Obama, ACORN, Community Organizing

About the Author

Patrick O’Hannigan is a writer in North Carolina.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (65) |

Appleby| 11.30.09 @ 6:20AM

One mark of maturity is that one can do the right thing even if it would make ones parents happy. (Or, in this case, The Man).

Unfortunately for the country, Obama has not yet reached that point in his life.

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Marc Jeric| 11.30.09 @ 6:46AM

Abu Hussein from Kenya, aka Obama, has had only the following working experience:
1) as a community organizer;
2) as a lawyer for community organizers; and
3) as a law instructor for future lawyers for community organizers.
And the indoctrination of our children led by teacher union goons reminds me of that applied to Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Tito, and those North Korean monsters:
''hmmm...hmmm...hmmm
Barack Hussein Obama
Everybody's equal in His eyes!
hmmm...hmmm...hmmm
Barack Hussein Obama
Equal pay for equal work!"
I would have preferred "Equal work for equal pay" but that is not to be in these totalitarian United States of America.

Margie| 11.30.09 @ 11:05AM

So very well put, as always, Mr. Jeric.
The left is Diabolically hypocritical.
Experience? What experience?
Yet the Left's biggest complaint was that Sarah Palin had none.

southernsue| 11.30.09 @ 7:31AM

is it inexperience or design to destroy america? he is just a puppet on a string. to many issues are coming too fast for me to think he is just inexperienced. he knows what he is doing. also surrounding yourself with the dictators and communist of the world is nothing to disregard.

Margie| 11.30.09 @ 11:08AM

I believe it is by design. But how much experience does it take to do the Devil's work? All he needs is a willing accomplice. No experience needed.

Tom| 11.30.09 @ 12:46PM

Southernsue and Margie,

It is absolutely by design. Ruthlessly, shamelessly, they are bent to destroy the best concept of human liberty on the planet. It's on purpose.

Jim O'Brien| 11.30.09 @ 8:33AM

Just call it what it is: The ACORN Administration.

davelnaf| 11.30.09 @ 8:43AM

A good article generally. But the author’s money paragraph, the one about Obama “sticking it to the Man,” was well put. Obama is essentially anti-Western, but he is also and rather instinctively anti-white. His decision to hold the terrorists trials in NY says it all about him—as if more needed to be said. In his view ‘whites’ have been far too judgmental of people of ‘color,’ in this case Arabs. Obama and Holder emotionally recoil from the prospect of the power structure of the US passing judgment (through military tribunals) on the Gitmo detainees. One would have to conclude that there was far more than a miscue involved in Obama’s bow to the Saudi monarch.

Louis Jenkins| 11.30.09 @ 9:10AM

What was to be expected from this Earthly Messiah? Did we expect a wise and Godly ruler? Did we expect him to be a benefactor to all US citizens? Did we even expect him to be a bonafide US born citizen? He's spent his professional career working for minority causes. It is not in his make-up to empathize with all segements of our nation, that is to include "the man" meaning WASPs. Naturally, by on the job training, he identifies with minorities, leftists, and anti-Americans. Why does Obama identify with Abe Lincoln? It's the minority cause! An identifier that can be quickly recognized by anyone regardless of education or creed. If being elected to the highest office makes one proud of American for the first time what is to be expected?

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JP| 11.30.09 @ 10:59AM

I think many people on both sides of the aisles are wondering what the President's endgame is. Is he just another liberal idealogue who got very lucky? Or is the President some evil genius who is engineering the destruction of our republic in order to fullfill his ultimate goal of transforming the nation into some internationalists fantasyland?

I tend to go for the former and not the later. As the sayng goes, "When thinking that a conspiracy is afoot never rule out the stupid and incompetent."

Politically speaking, it appears this President of ours suffers from a whole host of human failings -most notable of them is arrogance and solopisism. Unfortunatley, he has surrounded himself with the worst possible choice for characters. From the normal sychophants to the political hack, the President has no one to fall back to other than operatives, PR spinmiesters, and insufferable ideologues. This is the same accusation thrown at Bush43. But in this case, there is no Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, Jame Baker (of for that matter good ol' Daddy) to fall back on to in times of crisis. And even Reagan and Bush41 had thier wives.

From a purely political situation, President Obama's administration is looking more and more like that of Nixon's Administration. The one big difference is that Nixon at least had Billy Gramm; all Obama has is the Rev Jerimiah Wright.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.30.09 @ 11:25AM

Great comments all!

Please allow me to address JP above to add my two bits.
JP| 11.30.09 @ 10:59AM
""I think many people on both sides of the aisles are wondering what the President's endgame is. Is he just another liberal idealogue who got very lucky? Or is the President some evil genius who is engineering the destruction of our republic in order to fullfill his ultimate goal of transforming the nation into some internationalists fantasyland? ""

Sir, I believe both obtain in Obama's case. What is remarkable to me is how stupidly he has gone about his game.
For those of you who do not live in the "South", it is difficult to explain to you that we down here live elbow to elbow with our black fellow citizens. We interact together every day, and since Reverend King held up a mirror to us, pretty much amicably.
There are jst a whole bunch of hard working Christian black people here who are just as worried about this "red" as I am.

Evil genius? I don't think so. Evil? Well, evil is as evil does.
The man lied all the way to the election, both by commission...and omission.
He is going to do a lot of damage in my opinion.

dan| 11.30.09 @ 12:05PM

the real problem with the messiah is that he has lived in this country and successfully learned nothing about the country.

He fled to chicago after his leftist indcotrimnation at columbia and harvard, believing it was the fast track into poltics.

But his associations with wright, farrakhan, cone, ayers and acorn only taught him the victom mentality and the need to seek payback from whitey for imagined evils over the centuries.

But what we have seen that the same affirmative action that promotres unqualified persons into jobs they could never earn on their own , has foisted a marxist in the oval office.

But un fortunately the messiah has one prescription for every problem, more intrusive govt and huge defcits where money is thrown at problems with no idea how to fix anything.

But a year into the job and we see someone so blinded by his agenda, he shows he is neither nim ble on his feet or willing to change anything concerning his announced plans to trasnsform america as if the country voted for him and his socialist agenda;

And yet all we hear from his acolytes that all criticism of the messiah is always racist in it's content. As if the messiah's vision is so perfect, no one need critisize anything he proposes

Robert Pinkerton| 11.30.09 @ 2:16PM

While commenters here use the term, "messiah" ironically, none the less any number of our fellow citizens think of Mr. Obama as literally that - the Gods forbid!

In this Forum and in others, I have gotten static from some who seem to be offended that my religious preference is elsewhere than the Abrahamic tree, Abrahamic being the genus whereof Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are species. Yes, I do try to keep faith with the Old Gods. This faith has acted with my life's experience to teach me absolutely to disbelieve in "messiahs" per se, including but not limited to the Norse Heatens' Baldur, the Jews' Moshiach, the Persian Saoshyant, the Shiite Hidden Imam, the Sunnis' Mahdi, and you Christians' Y'shua bar Joseph of Nazareth. Further, I respectfully submit that the messianic myth is pernicious, in that it acts as a red carpet for the likes of, say, Sabbatai Zevi among Jewish folk or Adolf Hitler among Germans of two generations ago. I leave it to others of higher station than mine to decide whether Mr. Obama is of like ilk.

Margie| 11.30.09 @ 10:38PM

No, I do not ever call him the Messiah. Though he may try to act like one. However there is only one Messiah and his name is Jesus, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings. He is coming back soon, bringing His recompense. Is. 34:8, 35:4, 40:10, 62:11, Rev. 22:12.

Oldefarte| 11.30.09 @ 2:20PM

I wrote this LETTER TO THE EDITOR to our town's newspaper on 10/9/'''''2008'''''' [OBVIOUSLY before the 11/4/08 election]:

"I am writing this letter out of frustration with the upcoming presidential election. The American citizens are, according to the polls, STUPID and INSANE! On the one hand, you have a elderly, historic war hero and prisoner of war that sacrificed his life for the well being of America and its citizens [the Republican]; and, on the other hand, you have a MYSTERIOUS/unknown person that is dangerously close to assuming the presidency [the Democrat]. It has been documented that the Democrat received early, childhood instructions in Muslim religious institutions, the likes of which have produced the terrorists/bombers of September 11th, 2001 and their resultant carnage; that he has received an extremely expensive education at Columbia and Harvard Universities by means of tuition LOANS and that he was somehow able to pay back said loans by working as a lowly-paid, Chicago community organizer/social worker; that known wealthy/political individuals have acknowledged their lobbying efforts at getting him accepted into these prestigious universities; that he used his legal skills to further the agenda of voter registration organizations that are known for their fraudulent and illegal activities; that several major[semi private/public] housing financial corporations [now bankrupt] have provided vast sums of financing money to his campaigns; that he has sat idly by listening to the maniacal raving of lunatic preachers for 20 years; that he has associated himself in Chicago with the likes of a former domestic terrorist and a financially crooked businessman; and that he is one of the most liberal senator in this country’s history, is financially/politically supported by another, now dying liberal senator and he constantly lies about his desire to give 95% of income earners a tax refund, if elected.

The stupid and insane part of all of this is that the American people/voters are apparently so brainwashed by the totally biased media into believing their [media’s] political spin and masquerade of the above, that they [voters] are now evenly split on whether to vote for the Republican or the Democrat candidate for PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES! "

Michael Tomlinson| 11.30.09 @ 2:20PM

Under Obama more people are on food stamps that at any time in previous administrations -- 1 out of 8 adults and 1 out of 4 children. Things are only get worse as Obama and Democrats destroy the economy in search of their neo-fascist utopia. Like his friend Hugo Chavez look for Obama to begin demand Americans sacrifice simple things like showers and "unnecessary" driving to deal with the horrors of his economic nightmare.

Alice Moore| 12.1.09 @ 9:24AM

Imagine 1 in 8 adults and 1 in 4 children on Food Stamps during an imagined McCain presidency. There would be no articles about the lack of stigma of being on Food Stamps. There would probably be news articles and endless 24/7 TV footage of the 17.5% jobless seeking jobs and unemployment benefits.

It's striking how GDP numbers and unemployment numbers are tucked away in the corners and are given NO coverage on TV with the present administration in power.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.30.09 @ 2:28PM

Well Golllllly Gee! Mr. Pinkerton. You are so garwsh darned sophisticated, I don't even know what to say.
Above your pay-grade? Yep.

You are "fired" without repentence and humility. Heh!

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Louis Jenkins| 11.30.09 @ 5:10PM

I believe we've been insulted. I use the term Messiah in partial jest, but there is no doubt many have thought he came to lead us to greener pastures and still waters. If you will recall the woman interviewed in Fla. who flatly stated that her morgage and car payment were taken care of on his election. I guess she thought he'd take a basket lunch from a child and the multitudes would be taken care of.

The American Thinker had an insightful article today by Andrew Thomas. Worth the read.

http://www.americanthinker.com.....polit.html

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Ken (Old Texican)| 11.30.09 @ 7:06PM

Louis,
I cannot be insulted by the likes of the Pinkertons of the earth. They just make me LMAO....except when I get serious, and weep for their stumbling in their own personal darkness of hell.

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a wyatt man| 11.30.09 @ 8:35PM

The typos on the state dinner menu are revealing of the inattention to detail that permeates black culture (I have worked with black supervisors and seen the same type of deficient writing first hand).

Also, I heard that the recent state dinner crashers were allowed in as a result of the same lack of detail in that the White House social secretary (a good friend of the Obama's) was derelict in her duties at the entrance to the event where all guests should have been properly screened.

IMO both of these are examples of failure to follow through on the key types of small details that show one to be either sophisticated and erudite or not (my mother would call these types of lapses plain old laziness and/or ignorance).

bluecollarbytes| 11.30.09 @ 9:19PM

it didn't work

try the huffing&puffington;.com

victor| 11.30.09 @ 9:29PM

An FOM(friend of michele) took over the job of social organizer and demoted the woman who DID screen and follow up on RSVP's.
These two were contributors and FOB's(friends of Barry). They knew him well.
This is beginning to smell like the Clinton White House and No-Tel Mo-Tel.
To quote Bette Davis:
Hold onto your hats, it's going to be a bumpy ride!

Dorothy Jane | 11.30.09 @ 10:26PM

I am afraid if Obama somehow manages to push through healthcare reform, he will be hailed as brilliant, more amazing than FDR, Reagan, all hail!!!. I think the media is setting up this scenario right now, the derogatory articles about the awful Asia trip, the party crashers, all are being touted now, the result being that the media seems "fair". Then, when the disastrous healthcare bill is passed they can re-anoint him as 'The One." He is a very scary dude.

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John Locke| 11.30.09 @ 10:46PM

I'm in favor of gun control. Disarm Obama. Disarm Uncle Sam at-large [all levels of government]. Arm the people. And vote conservative, or libertarian.

Osamas Pajamas| 11.30.09 @ 10:48PM

ON THE BIG MISTAKE OF ANN COULTER AND RUSH LIMBAUGH AND GLENN BECK AND BILL BUCKLEY [DECEASED] AND THE REST --------

I like these folks ---- but they have made some crucial errors in their thinking, writing and public speaking. They call Democrats "liberals."

The Democrats believe in statism, not liberalism. Famous brands of statism in recent centuries have been Nazism, socialism, fascism, communism, and welfare statism [sort of a mix of fascism and socialism].

Liberalism, on the other hand, is a political philosophy of small, cheap government, and the job of a liberal government is to enforce human rights within its own jurisdiction.

I speak of the perfectly-natural and universally-valid human rights of life, liberty, private property, and the pursuit of personal happiness.

The first article of private property is "the self" and all other rights are derivatives of and flow from these cardinal rights.

These rights ----The Rights of Man ---- are the gift of nature or of nature's god ---- and they belong to all human beings, everywhere.

Show me a Democrat who subscribes to all of the above, without qualification or weasel words.

The words "liberal" and "liberalism" were hijacked by the Democrats and socialists long ago ---- and the mistake of conservatives and libertarians was to let them get away with it.

It is long past time that liberalism be reclaimed, defined, and explained by its rightful owners ---- by the champions of freedom.

Declare yourselves to be liberals, then ---- and overthrow and trounce the Democrats!

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Liberal Reader| 11.30.09 @ 11:38PM

George W Bush was a cheerleader.

You'd prefer that to someone who spent a year -- when just out of college -- doing community organizing work?

You people are PATHETIC!!!

wmm| 12.1.09 @ 1:12AM

One of the things I find most alarming about Dear Leader is that, at the end of his four-year term, it will be the longest job HE'S EVER HELD! He's been a restless drifter his entire life, so you have to figure that the Obamateur hour we've witnessed in his first 10 months in office is what you get when he's actually paying attention. Maybe things will improve once he gets the itch to write another book about himself.

SpiritOfSarah| 12.1.09 @ 4:40AM

I wish I could have voted for the first black President. But I'm 54, not a youngster; I'm conservative, not a leftist/statist; and I know how to read and face reality.

I am very sorry that this arrogant, oily Socialist was elected as President - black, white, green or yellow. I am very sorry that blacks still internalize their undeserved shame, thus being racist against their own race. I am sorry that our country is still so unhealed that criticism of a black person is construed as racist.

Until blacks free themselves truly from the chains for which only they have the lock, racism (the black-white "war") will continue to be a problem in this country. For I truly believe with all of my heart, mind and soul, that whites do not hate blacks, nor wish them evil. Our souls respond to LIGHT, no matter the source.

It's late and I'm off on a tangent that probably doesn't belong here... g'night.

a wyatt man| 12.1.09 @ 11:16AM

I love this comment especially this line....... "For I truly believe with all of my heart, mind and soul, that whites do not hate blacks, nor wish them evil. Our souls respond to LIGHT, no matter the source".

SpiritOfSarah| 12.1.09 @ 4:46AM

Osamas Pajamas: Before I say g'night, I wanted to say thank you! I don't know much about the historical "liberal" definition, but I sure as hell know "statism" when I see it. The slippery slope has given way to a glacier collapse. God Save the USA!

Nyfarmer| 12.1.09 @ 5:00AM

The chosen leadership is a reflection of ourselves. The greatest generation gave us the world and great wealth to manage. The feckless boomers are headed toward a third world retirement.

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Jackson Read| 12.1.09 @ 2:47PM

What did we expect after we elect a black man to run the Country. I have worked with blacks, and they don't like white people. And at this rate they never will. Barack Hussien Obama is a prime example of this. I hope America never makes this mistake again. We as republican Conservatives should make it our business to round up the good negro men in this country and get them to become conservatives. That way we can begin to change their culture. This way we won't have to worry about this situation repeating itself. The negro race is good at heart, they just need some guidance and some direction.

The problem is we are too late for this. Blacks and Latinos will be the majority in this country in about 30yrs. I am very scared that they are gaining entirely too much power, and will begin to assume control of the government and the country. Once this happens we are talking the holocaust all over again. Blacks and Latinos will carry out greater crimes than the Nazi ever imagined. Some may say that this is an exaggeration, but that's what they said in the mid 30's. We all know what happened after that.

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…Non-Council Submissions First place with 3 points! – Victor Davis Hanson - Dithering And Trashing America Second place with 2 points – Patrick O’Hannigan/ American Spectator blog - The Community Organizer In Chief Third place with 1 2/3 points – Outside the Beltway - Charles Johnson ‘breaks’ from the Right Fourth place with 1 1/3 points – (Tie *) – Bruce Walker/American Thinker -…

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Bookworm Room » Winners at the Watcher’s Council links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…Non-Council Submissions First place with 3 points! – Victor Davis Hanson - Dithering And Trashing America Second place with 2 points – Patrick O’Hannigan/ American Spectator blog - The Community Organizer In Chief Third place with 1 2/3 points – Outside the Beltway - Charles Johnson ‘breaks’ from the Right Fourth place with 1 1/3 points – (Tie *) – Bruce Walker/American Thinker - The Ghost of Lysenko…

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