tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post7275308365721009343..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Obama's community organizingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8040349212815411052008-09-10T08:57:00.000-07:002008-09-10T08:57:00.000-07:00"nobody said...Steve,I'm a disaffected liberal who..."nobody said...<BR/><BR/>Steve,<BR/><BR/>I'm a disaffected liberal who has been reading you for a couple of years with great pleasure because of your realism on questiosm of race. However, your partisanship in this election is getting irritating."<BR/><BR/>Huh? What partisanship? Are you claiming that Steve is in the tank for John McCain? I don't see how that charge can in any way be supported, given what Steve's written about him.<BR/><BR/>It seems pretty clear to me that the official choice of the editorial voice of this blog (i.e., Steve's) for our next President is "none of the above".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1761886391118068912008-09-09T12:55:00.000-07:002008-09-09T12:55:00.000-07:00Steve - I've always thought that USC security woul...Steve - I've always thought that USC security would be the subject of a good essay or deeper story. After all, as you well know Steve, here you have the upper middle class and the affluent leaving their 18-year old White daughters in the middle of one of the worst neighborhoods in LA.<BR/><BR/>I've seen these USC security guys up close and their stories are amazing. Basically, these guys are a law unto themselves and everyone leaves them alone for the very simple, yet unsaid, reason that without them and their tactics, USC would die within 5 years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4964744034087673362008-09-09T12:08:00.000-07:002008-09-09T12:08:00.000-07:00The overwhelming availability of social service "h...The overwhelming availability of social service "help" has been a reality for many years. In the '70s I was a food stamp and Medicaid worker in rural Massachusetts. I made home visits to make sure recipients were still eligible. And in every house with any real problems, I would have to schedule my interviews around a host of counselors, social workers, AFDC workers, home health aides, every variety of "community organizer". It was a circus. Being poor in America is a full time job. And the paperwork!Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01747859029040319691noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32801729562313608892008-09-09T12:06:00.000-07:002008-09-09T12:06:00.000-07:00McCain does not want to let Obama play the race ca...McCain does not want to let Obama play the race card. It's probably wise -- the media would crucify McCain at every opportunity.<BR/><BR/>At any rate, the Rev. God Damn America has shown Obama to everyone. I'm sure 527's will be running ads soon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78683881520301955662008-09-09T10:00:00.000-07:002008-09-09T10:00:00.000-07:00Seriously, this post is ridiculous. You offer no ...Seriously, this post is ridiculous. You offer no evidence that Obama did anything wrong. The only criticism directed at him in particular (as opposed to guilt by association) is that he worked with black steelworkers instead of white (would only Polish have been acceptable, or any whites?) ones. Oh, the horrors.Jewish Atheisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04616617537150446818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60833444144535272182008-09-09T07:42:00.000-07:002008-09-09T07:42:00.000-07:00i have no doubt that obama's community organizing ...i have no doubt that obama's community organizing was motivated by an attempt to help blacks-- even those steelworkers were black, by the way. i don't see anything inherently wrong with that though, and i don't see it as being at odds with a presidential run.<BR/><BR/>obama's interest in helping black's isn't enough to warrant a comparison to the mau-mau'ers in wolfe's story. in wolfe's story, they were motivated not by a yearning to help others but rather to help themselves.ben ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04802090467106119091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87773999964501866222008-09-09T05:56:00.000-07:002008-09-09T05:56:00.000-07:00nobody,Is there something in Steve's column that i...nobody,<BR/><BR/>Is there something in Steve's column that isn't true? He didn't accuse Obama of anything sensational like baby swapping.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87902286520077320302008-09-09T03:22:00.000-07:002008-09-09T03:22:00.000-07:00The Obama campaign's recurrent “steelworker” shtic...<I>The Obama campaign's recurrent “steelworker” shtick is supposed to make you think Obama moved to Chicago to help guys named Kowalski. But the last thing Obama wanted to do in 1985 was help anybody with a Central European name.</I><BR/><BR/>This fudging was continued in the introductory video just before his acceptance speech in Denver. When the narrator, St. Edward R. Murrow, uh, I mean David Strathairn, gets to the part of the bio about "community organizing", the screen shows stock photos (obviously from this year's campaign but meant to suggest they were much older on account of being B&W and deliberately grainy) of Obama meeting with...mostly white hardhat types and plump midwesterners!<BR/><BR/>I immediately thought of Steve.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74375464963204245302008-09-09T01:57:00.000-07:002008-09-09T01:57:00.000-07:00I went to the University of Chicago, too-but I'm a...I went to the University of Chicago, too-but I'm actually from Chicago, so that means I noticed something your friend who talked to you about the U of C cops didn't notice: the majority of them are Chicago cops moonlighting. This probably explains why they are dimly aware of concepts like Miranda and the presumption of innocence, neither of which appear to be of terrible concern to Chicago cops. Just ask <A HREF="http://www.chicagoreader.com/policetorture/" REL="nofollow">Commander John Burge</A>!<BR/><BR/>Planetary Archon MouseAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59227332900467408392008-09-08T23:28:00.000-07:002008-09-08T23:28:00.000-07:00Steve,I'm a disaffected liberal who has been readi...Steve,<BR/>I'm a disaffected liberal who has been reading you for a couple of years with great pleasure because of your realism on questiosm of race. However, your partisanship in this election is getting irritating. I know you don't care much what some anonymous poster has to say, but I don't come here for an inverted version of DailyKos. If this keeps up you'll be moving off my bookmarks toolbar until we're well past this election.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17957465233194899019noreply@blogger.com