Friday, September 05, 2008

What is a Chicago Community Organizer?

After researching this occupation, we finally found a semblance of a job description for this position that Obama proudly touts as his executive experience. Using references to his own memoirs, it is pretty clear what his job in Chicago was. Barack Hussein Obama was a street, precinct organizer for the Cook County Democractic Political Machine.

Yes, the man who wants to be President has touted his experience and record as a community organizer turns out to be nothing more than a street organizer for the Richard Daley Chicago Political Machine. Definitely no transparency nor accountability in this job!

He worked for John Stroger, who served on the Cook County Board of Commissioners. Stroger ran a politically corrupt Machine that funneled walking around money to the streets in Chicago for the explicit purpose of buying votes. Eventually, even the Daley Political Machine turned against the corrupt Stroger.

As a doorknocker for Stroger, Obama knows the role of cronyism and patronage up close and personal. Patronage is handing out tax dollars to friends who in turn do favors such as buy votes on the street.

The way to get to be a community organizer in the Chicago Cook County Political Machine is to have the right political connections. There are no qualifications for this job. The only requirement is to provide campaign contributions to the Daly Machine.

One of the political hacks of Mayor Daley who oversaw the campaign organizers is none other than David Axelrod, 2008 campaign manager for Barack Obama. Now, since Axelrod is in daily contact and communciation with Mayor Daley, who is running the Obama campaign? The Chicago Political Machine perhaps?

In 2004 Michelle Obama worked in public relations and community development for the University of Chicago Hospital making $121,910 annually. When her husband was elected to the US Senate in 2005, her salary almost tripled to $316,962. Shortly after her pay raise, Senator Obama requested a $1 million earmark for the University of Chicago Hospital.

So, what kind of political change does Barack Hussein Obama really plan on bringing to Washington?

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