Since Senator Obama cites his three years as a community organizer as an important element among his qualifications to be President, Byron York wanted to learn what a community organizer does and what Barack Obama accomplished in his tenure as an organizer in Chicago. So York went to the Windy City to find out, and writes about what he learned in an article at National Review Online.
He says:
[I]f you ask Obama's fellow organizers what his most significant accomplishments were, they point to two ventures: the expansion of a city summer-job program for South Side teenagers and the removal of asbestos from one of the area's oldest housing projects. Those, they say, were his biggest victories.
Neither of these achievements amounted to much, and Obama sensed that he really wasn't going to get a lot done in his role as an organizer, which is why he decided to go to law school. He believed that he needed more power and being a lawyer would confer that power. York's piece gives us the details and offers us an interesting and important glimpse of these formative years in the life of the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.
RLC