Polls

This poll result is so great, I’m going to let the DailyKos report it. Their conclusion is that Americans finally realized that Obama is black and that they don’t like black people.
And I bet if McCain dumps the scandal-ridden, obviously unqualified Palin who is weighting down his campaign, his numbers will go even higher!
Not that we should be getting cocky, but it’s starting to look like that after this election Obama will be known as “Okakis”. I guess that’s better than being an Odale or Ogovern.

Straight from the horse’s mouth . . .


An answer to the question “What is a community organizer” from community organizers themselves . . .
Community first: Organizers explain what they do
Elana Wolowitz, communications director for Wellstone Action!,
“A community organizer is everything from someone who brings people to meetings …[to someone who] reaches out to a large group of people by having conversations with them either door to door or in coffee meetings or where they work or where they live,” Wolowitz said. “A community organizer then tries to harness all that information that they gather from listening to people’s stories and what they care about and what they want and what they need, then use that information to move toward change while building the leadership [skills] of others and not putting themselves first, and not taking the credit, but by giving other people opportunity to participate in helping their own community.”
Chuck Repke, longtime executive director of the District 2 Community Council in St. Paul, said
“The big thing of a community organizer is empowering the citizens to be able to take control of their communities, to give a voice to people who normally are voiceless, to empower those people who tend not to have much power and to facilitate the development of leadership in the community. It’s about making other people have power, not power for yourself,” Repke explained.
Michelle Martin, executive director of Minneapolis’s PEACE Foundation,
. . . a community organizer has to be able to write a budget, understand and make organizational flow charts, maintain good relationships with government officials, secure funding, speak publicly, manage personnel and volunteers, and much more.
Gary Bennett, a board member and past chair of the Kenwood Isles Area Association — a neighborhood group in southwest Minneapolis
His own organization is made up of volunteers “who want to take the time to serve the community, specifically their neighborhood. People doing this kind of work are what creates the fabric of a community.”

Note that the only coherent explanation involved obtaining funding.

God on Trolls

Proverbs 18:2

A fool has no delight in understanding, but in expressing his own heart.