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September 22, 2008
Let's set the record straight about community organizers. . .
During her Emmy acceptance speechlet, actress Laura Linney made the statement:
"the great community organizers that helped form our country"
referring to the John Adams HBO mini-series and giving a nod to Democrat Presidential Nominee Barack Obama. Also:
"Our founding fathers were community organizers. And that is fact to me. And I feel that has been disparaged."
Let's set the record straight about Obama and our founding fathers as "community organizers."
John Adams was a lawyer and a farmer.
Thomas Jefferson was a lawyer, agronomist, musician, scientist, philosopher, author, architect, inventor, and statesman.
Sam Adams was an unsuccessful brewer, a clerk, an unsuccessful business man and a tax collector.
Benjamin Franklin was a businessman, writer, publisher and scientist.
(Here is a link to the bios of the signers of the Declaration of Independence)
Obama was hired by ACORN to be a "community organizer". ACORN is an international liberal activism group responsible for multiple instances of voter fraud. Also, in 2006, according to the WSJ "House Democrats pushed an "affordable housing trust fund" designed to use Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac profits to subsidize ACORN".
It is INSULTING to our founding fathers to equate them this way.
--Jason
PS As an atheist, I really get a kick out of the "Jesus was a 'community organizer'" meme that circulates amonst the left. I can't really think of something that would me more offensive to a Christian and perhaps it's the faux Christianity that the left likes to portray that has caused them to fall into this trap. To suggest that Jesus was taking a low level job with international political action groups getting their funding from the Roman government; and that Jesus was going around taking census and holding peoples hands as they petitioned local government officials is simply absurd. Let's not mention that Jesus according to Christians and others ACTUALLY DID STUFF, while the communities Obama "organized" are generally worse off than they were before Obama.
-JC
Posted by JasonColeman at September 22, 2008 10:20 AM
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