Saul Alinsky the original Community Organizer was white and Jewish. The Guys who sent Obama to Chicago were Jewish and white.

So maybe Community organizer is code for Jewish white guy.

Anything that disagrees with Obama is a reference to race, evidently.

It's code for "liberal."

The only thing that comes to mind is that the speaker has a world view such that most "Community Organizers" are active in poor, black, urban areas (because areas inhabited by poor, urban blacks are universally full of fail and thus require the efforts of outside Community Organizers to come in and save them all).

This mindset says more about the racism of the speaker, I think.

Having a child is "code" for being opposed to abortion.

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Very disappointing. Thus far, David Patterson has been quietly competant and decent, the very antithesis of so much of New York politics, especially Governor Spitzer, who he replaced. And now this man who I was almost proud to have as governor gets the award for the dumbest thing said so far in this crazy election season full of dumb statements.

Way to go Patterson!

This hysterical comment by the Governor of New York raises questions again that I would dearly love to have answered. I have asked repeatedly and cannot get anyone to answer.

1. What, exactly, does a community organizer do?
2. If being a community organizer is to be construted as the "the same as being black", does that mean that only blacks ARE community organizers? (I really don't know what he's suggesting here--just looking for insight)
3. If only blacks are community organizers, and being a community organizer is a good thing, then why would it be an insult to attribute these activities to a black person?
4. Shall we now sheepishly accept (having been organized by the Governor) that "community organizer" is now added to the list of things that no one dare say about Obama? (If so, that strikes me as exceedingly odd, because he is the one who has been bragging for 20 months that he was such a terrific organizer of his community)

We are so confused. We need organizing, Governor. (Oh. I forgot. Now we're not supposed to thinkt hat "Governor" is a term of respect any more either. Didn't mean to insult the Governor of New York there)

Ann

Here's a definition for "Community Organizer"....PARASITE.

PARASITES can come from any race, so race has nothing to do with this. These are people who use guilt, intimidation and violence against public officials to get their "clients" more goodies and themselves power.

Here's hoping Sarah Palin turns off the money spigot to these communist freeloaders!

Of course the more Common Republican code for Black is, "The Democratic Nominee". But you need the decoder ring first.

Okay. If Alinsky invented the term, then the jokes about it aren't racist. They're anti-Semitic! That's almost as bad, right?

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And JESUS was a community organizer! And Jesus was a JEW! It all fits! IT'S A CONSPIRACY!

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Obama supporters say Jesus was a community organizer. Does that mean he was Black too?

The Jews use community organisers as MUSCLE, leaving you DEFENSELESS.

Here ... let me give you the "Obama Race Card Decoder Ring" so you can figure it out:

1) If you say something true about Obama that might cause someone to not vote for him ... then you're a racist using "codewords."

2) See #1.

Unless all references to Obama are references to race, I'm stumped.

Duh. I am amazed that you can absolutely nail the point and then pretend you don't see it. Okay, a modification: for a Republican, "community organizer" is code for "uppity Black." For a Democrat, it means "messiah" (q.v. Christ, J.).

Speaking of Saul Alinsky....

Suppose for a moment a GOP candidate had built his career steeped in the teachings of a particular writer/activist. Let's say it's Robert Welsh, founder of the John Birch Society.

Does anyone believe for a second that we would not have seen endless documentaries and news reports on the origins, teachings and influence of Robert Welsh?

Yet I haven't seen one single report on Obama's self-proclaimed teacher and role model, Saul Alinsky. Mustn't frighten the masses with too much information about O's radical roots.

Pat Robertson is black? Sheesh....I worked for him in 2000 and 2001. I had brunch with him and his wife once; another time the whole office had lunch with him. I never knew he was black!

"Governor of New York” has become a code-word for “adulterous idiot.”

When I hear "community organizer" I don't think "black." I think "communist." About the only other type of "organizers" you ever hear about are "union organizers" and "party organizers." Don't mis-quote me as saying that union=communist, but the early communist movement in this country did closely align their party organization efforts with both union and community activities. Didn't anybody here read Invisible Man, a book that was largely drawn from Ralph Ellison's personal experiences in part and community orgaization efforts in Harlem?

Although I don't think of "community organizer" as a racial code word I can see where Paterson might. "Community" seems to be a big word among African Americans. In Atlanta I saw a local storefront church (they were actually renting a movie theater) which had "Community" in the name of the church, I automatically assumed "ghetto," and judging by the congregation when they came out later, I was right. I think one might find this goes back to African roots. I was reading a book--I wish I could recall the title--about loners, by a loner, in defense of loners, and in discussing the very ingrained social prejudice against loners the author mentioned how ehen she visited Africa, it seemed to her that the very concept of the individual was not only largely foreign, but to the extent it was udnerstood, feared and hated.

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