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Have you ever lived in Chicago? I spend 4 years there, starting when I was 13. What he says is the truth.
Though I doubt that Barry had to go and do foot soldier work like that for the Daily Machine, he was being groomed for some sort of high office right from the beginning, so they brought him in to manage the operation.
Community organization is exactly what Obama did.
"Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, leading Crain's Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be.[22]"
Then he took a break to run Public Allies, a group designed to take bright young minorities, give them an "education" in working the political system, and "progressive" politics, and then getting them in on the Community Organization gig, so basically running a school that was designed to build possible future Democratic candidates.
Then he worked with the Woods Fund, an organization that helps make the subsidised public housing that helps keep urbanites trapped in a cycle of poverty a reality, while grooming grantees to help run the housing and to help raise funds for the Fund (a very nice self perpetuating circle).
Then he worked with the Joyce Foundation and the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, two groups with very nice sounding goals, who really just funnel money back and forth between themselves (and the Woods Fund) and a few nonprofit things like theaters, to ensure that no one involved pays any tax. Both groups call support for education, and an increase in quality of education two of their primary goals, but both groups admit that, despite spending HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, they haven't accomplished much.
So, basically, Obama has lots of experience helping the money behind the Daily Machine cook their books, and signing up people to vote for more payouts for themselves. Is this a good thing?