Obama Defends Community Organizing
Speaking of the Republican convention speakers, a clearly riled Obama said, “They haven’t talked about the fact that I was a civil rights lawyer; they haven’t talked about the fact that I taught constitutional law; they haven’t talked about my work in the state legislature, in the United States Senate. They’re talking about the three years of work that I did right out of college as if… I’m making the leap from two or three years out of college into the presidency.”
Obama acknowledged that his campaign had focused attention on his experience as a community organizer. But he said, “I would argue that doing work in the community to try and create jobs, to bring people together, to rejuvenate communities that have fallen on hard times, to set up job-training programs in areas that have been hard hit when the steel plants closed, that that’s relevant only in understanding where I’m coming from, who I believe in, who I’m fighting for and why I’m in this race.
“And the question I have for them is? Why would that kind of work be ridiculous? Who are they fighting for? Who are they advocating for?
“Maybe that’s the problem,” Obama concluded. “Maybe that’s part of why they are out of touch and don’t get it because they haven’t spent much time working for those kind of folks.”
***I would like the GOPs to answer that.