<<So , as a community organiser ,did BHO have a lot of success?>>
That's kind of like asking, "So, as a religious leader, did Jesus have a lot of success?"
The answer would have to be, "No, because men are still committing the most God-awful atrocities on each other all over the fucking globe and in 2000 years we've seen the most barbarism of all in the last century, still within living memory of millions of human beings, the wars with the greatest butcher's bills and now the development of weapons that could wipe out all life on the planet ten thousand times over."
Of course, you could also ask, "So, as a businessman, did Bill Gates have a lot of success?"
The answer of course would have to be, "Yeah, he made a shitload of money and his software is on every fucking computer in the world, excepting a handful of Linux and Mac enthusiasts."
Community organizing is a hard battle which, unless you're in a Hollywood movie, doesn't achieve the big dramatic successes you can find in the business world, where literally millions of businessmen and women in the U.S.A. make a decent living and can be considered moderately successful.
But who's better fit to lead, Jesus Christ or Bill Gates? Whose struggle was the more worthwhile? Jesus or the CEO of Blackwater? Let's get real - - the community organizers are doing God's work and the businessmen are doing Mammon's. It's easy to make money - - lots of people do it. Count the big cars in any shopping centre lot. It's tough to fight the powers that be, who can outspend you, out-communicate you in the MSM and out-muscle you with police power and if necessary State Trooper power and National Guard power. Victories are sweet when they come, but they come few and far between.
Answering BT's "not really," I'd say that success for a community organizer isn't always measured in battles won, sometimes it's in really small victories, one kid who was wavering in the battle turned into a dedicated and committed warrior in the class struggle, one small concession made by the powers that be, one admission of wrongdoing by one shame-faced cop or trooper. Community organizers, by the nature of the struggle, have to be committed, resourceful, indefatigable, knowledgable and many other things as well. Their battle is uphill all the way and sometimes - - like Medgar Evers or Martin Luther King (whose national holiday John McCain opposed, the racist prick - - ) sometimes it's fatal.
Sneering at Obama's successes or lack thereof as a community organizer is a real cheap shot - - not that that surprises me - - but it's not likely to have much effect on anyone except those who are so out of touch with reality that they don't even KNOW what a community organizer does.
