Even Obama Had Reservations about Community Organizing

It seems that community organizing was not the job for him and went to law school instead:

But Obama was also worried about something else. He told Kellman that he feared community organizing would never allow him "to make major changes in poverty or discrimination." To do that, he said, "you either had to be an elected official or be influential with elected officials." In other words, Obama believed that his chosen profession was getting him nowhere, or at least not far enough. Personally, he might end up like his father; politically, he would fail to improve the lot of those he was trying to help.

I guess all that time on Chicago's mean streets just made him want to enter politics instead of organizing. He is right that a politician can do the jobs of 100s of organizers with a single stroke of a pen.

I still didn't agree with some of the criticism of it that I heard at the RNC though. For the most part being an organizer and working with poor families one-on-one is a lot better job then some of other traditionally leftist jobs. I think an organizer does a lot more good then an environmental advocate, a line-sitter for IPhones, or a professional picketer. I think one lefty organizer is equal to about a 100 Code Pinkos or a 1000 Crazy Anarchist Freaks.