What does a community organizer do?

Question

NO, really, I want to know. I'm not looking for a bunch of Obama jokes. I really want to know.

Answer 1

Stuff public money into each other's pockets?

Answer 2

Organizes block parties, the summer basketball league and registers illegal aliens to vote.

Answer 3

Senator Obama is a lawyer.  He was a legal advocate for disadvantaged workers in a tough Chicago neighborhood.   When poor people were getting screwed, he sued the rich business owners that were s******g them.  

Answer 4

organize the community?

Not sure in a professional/paid position but volunteer position sets up events/neighborhood watchs.  Kinda like the chamber of commerce for business but for families and residents instead

Answer 5

picnic planner

seriously though, In peoria Illinois, they have a few guys who come in, they cant get a job so they go around and try to get churches and other places to throw functions. then they take money for that.

thats what a community organizer is, a guy who couldnt get a job so he just a better class of mooch.

obama in his own first book said once out of harvard, he sent out over 300 resumes and after a year and a half, he got no replies so he decided to become an organizer.

thats from obamas own book.

Answer 6

Someone that really cares about his/her community, and puts aside their own desires to assist their fellow man/woman

Answer 7

from wiki:

After four years in New York City, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland (Roseland, West Pullman, and Riverdale) on Chicago's far South Side.[11][13] During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization in Altgeld Gardens.[14] Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[15] In mid-1988, he traveled for the first time to Europe for three weeks then Kenya for five weeks where he met many of his Kenyan relatives for the first time.[16]