Union Chief: ‘Jesus Was a Community Organizer’

Mother Theresa was also a community organizer. Mocking the good work of the religious is offensive.

He didn’t say Obama was like Jesus and you know it.

Don’t think Saul Alinsky followed Jesus teachings.

Jesus was NOT a community organizer.

Obama’s first comment on Palin” the mayor of Wa-silly’. He asked for all the ridicule on community organizor.

funny that republicans have to use ajob Obama had around college and right after college to compare to Palin’s executive experience to make it seem like it is worthy

thus far, obama has been compared to: RFK, JFK, MLK, Abraham Lincoln, and now Jesus…..

the delusions of obama’s grandeur apparently know no bounds….

Jesus, Ghandi, MLK, and countless Americans working in rural, suburban, areas… all community organizers. Sorry Ms. Palin, they have real responsibilities, and for you to and your chronies to suggest otherwise is downright shameful.

Excuse me but Jesus did organize his community.
If I remember correctly it was the community organizers that helped the victims of Katrina. They are still there helping in those areas that were devastated by Katrina.
The Republicans have been in charge for the last eight years. Are you better off than you were eight years ago? How about four years ago?

The miners might regret pushing BHO. He would like to put them out of business. All of the people mentioned really did something. What has BHO accomplished other than spending millions on top of millions to buy the presidency.

Jesus was not an organizer, he was a teacher

Jesus was a community organizer.
Pontius Pilate was a Governor.”
Once again, the Democrats show how to lose by ####### off the evangelicals they they can’t win who will draw over the denominations they might. Such clever people these Democrats.
Clue: Jesus was a teacher. John The Baptist was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a civil servant. Barrabas was a politician. Mary was a mother and guess which one of them is actually running for VP.
Mothers don’t care about community organizers, civil servants or politicians. They care about teachers.

The mafia and the Klan were also ‘community organizers’ of a sort and I sure wouldn’t call them positive or helpful. So is Hamas for that matter. Even groups that do social work for their own ‘community’ can do terrible things to other communities.

Every time Obama describes what he did as a community organizer – he starts each line with “we”. That’s the oldest job interview trick in the book. What did you – personally – do as a community organizer?

Of course Jesus was an organizer–of the church He established when He charged His apostles to “do this in memory of me.”

==Jesus was community organizer. There is no doubt about it…==
To YOU. However, He wasn’t a community organizer. He didn’t recruit for political purposes, rather He came with a Message of Reconciliation. He didn’t twist arms.
But give us a line of scriptural thought that you think proves your case.
==…and so were the founding fathers [sic].==
The Founding Fathers were community organizers cuz they were on a political mission.

Community Organizers do good work. I’ve done it for 15 years for various important projects off and on. I’ve also done it so the kids could have community experience points to be part of their community and help them get into college. I’m sure it also helped Obama on his application to get into Harvard. However, if I was Obama, I don’t think I would ever use the short length of my experience as an organizer as a main point to run for President. There really needs to be something more.
Ralea9-Independent Voter

It’s funny how the CONS call Obama the One, commit blaspheme in Ads and then get offended because someone accuratley compares Obama’s early work.
Proof of hypocritical behavior and lack of moral stabilty.

Before he compares Obama’s works to those of Jesus, he might want to investigate ACORN and exactly what Obama was doing as a Community Organizer. He might also want to look up Hazel Johnson to find how much of her hard work Obama took credit for to pad his resume and further his career.

There’s another aspect of this McCain/Palin wave. It will help sweep congressional Republicans into office.

during his life, jesus was not an organizer of the church because, back then, the church was somewhat corrupt (merchants in the temple, etc.) and run by the religious leaders who later demanded his crucifixion…..if anything, jesus was a rebellious teacher/prophet who was against the establishment, not actively working to lead it (obama)

Palin should stop bearing false witness. Good Christians find this troubling.

Well, Incredible. I guess that makes me a Lutheran, since my dad was a Lutheran. Of course I am a Catholic and have been since infancy. But if you say I’m a Lutheran, I guess I am, huh?

How dare anyone insult community organizers. We are the very grass root workers of America. How dare people insult us worker saying we do nothing. How dare anyone say leadership skills not used.
Sorry – I am religious – Jesus was indeed a community organizer.
I am Republican. I am very upset my own party – Republicans insulted my work!! They insulted me and I am white woman college educated medical professional. I was raised on a farm in Nebraska near town of 400. I now live in California small town near San Francisco.
Sarah Palin said we did nothing!!! I have also seen she is lying about Bridge to No Where. SHE SUPPORTED AND ONLY CHANGED WHEN BILL DEAD WASHINGTON- THEN CHANGED STANCE – VOTED DOWN AT STATE – STILL TOOK MONEY WASHINGTON GAVE. I have also seen she didn’t have to do anything about cleaning up corruption either. FBI was doing long before she took office. FBI did all the investigation. Sarah and her government did nothing.
PARTY CORRUPT – REPUBLICANS – 11 LEGISLATORS INDICTED + LOBBYISTS + OTHERS + OIL EXECUTIVES
FACT – NO DEMOCRATS
GO GOOGLE ALASKA POLITICAL CORRUPTION – GO TO WIKIPEDIA.
JOHN MCCAIN IS MORE OF SAME. THIS MAN IS MORE OF SAME.
I have had enough of 8 years of Republicans. America is disaster!! Everyone had better take notice. Can’t get much worse!

Obama is running the wrong election. He should be running for Pope. Does he know all the Popes and Pastors are community organizers too?

Wm. J. LePetomaine
He taught economics in Harvard’s law school. He did not become a professor or even an associate professor.
Jesus is lying to you!

We’ve really in Never Never Land if it’s necessary to explain what community organizers do. You know the kind of stuff that the well off expect as a matter of course…day care, health care, decent schools, a voice in government decisions that effect their lives, jobs, community improvements.
That’s what community organizers help people who are not so well off attain. These are the people who help other people “pull themselves up by their boot straps.”
How on earth have they become the subject of derision?

Community organizig is not limited to just politcal action. It is mostly for addressing circumstances and lapses in local government policy and/or actions.
There is no to look for scripture, when you the results of the Church. One of the largest communities in the world. Communities are just local areas, they are also groups of people that participate in a shared belief.
Furthermore Jesus was not just about saving souls but also was about empowering people on earth. You know the Holy Spirit and his teachings.

I know Jesus and Barack is no Jesus.

OBAMA IS NOT A MUSLIM!! THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN PROVEN! THIS IS A RUMOR AND TOTALLY FALSE! SOMEONE/PEOPLE NEEDS TO FACT CHECK. THIS IS AMERICA. AMERICA IS NOT A MUSLIM COUNTRY. OBAMA RAISED BY MOTHER AND GRANDPARENTS IN AMERICA EXCEPT FOR SHORT WHILE. EVERYONE GO RESEARCH. DON’T FALL PREY TO THESE ATTACK SMEARS!!

This will back fire.

Mr. Obama, I know Jesus and you are NO Jesus.
Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska
——————–
Mr. Obama, I know Mother Teresa and you are NO Mother Teresa.
Mrs. Cindy McCain Future First Lady of the USA.

Not only was Jesus a community organizer, but Pontius Pilate was a governor.
Pilate had much more executive experience in commanding soldiers than Sarah Palin, but may have been less of a barracuda.

There’s been a report that the Muslim religion runs the government and rules eveyone’s life and Barack Hussien Obama is a muslim. Once you kneel down and face the east and say your prayer of faith you are a mmuslim for life. Now get back on the issues people. I don’t think Obama will apoint the Ayatola Leader of the senate or house, and I don’t think that Palin will ask congress to vote for dominism.

Dear Stipud Americans,
Please vote for John McCain.
Very good that you Americans remain stipud. A man that has no future plans for your country is precisely what you need and deserve.
He will spend the next 4 years fighting wars and telling you about his heroic missions in the 60s and 70s while many more of your people lose jobs and have NO health care in the 21st century. Bravo!
A lot of us outside the US are enjoying these. Please Americans, vote for John McCain.
Obama was wrong when he said that “Americans can do better”.
Many people in Europe and Asia disagree. The best America can do is to continue 4 more years of bad governance as it is evident in the last 8 years of the Republican party.
Obviously, Mr Obama does not know what he is talking about.
Perhaps, he thinks that majority of Americans are as reasonable and as intelligent as he his. Wrong! Barack.
Majority of Americans are a bunch of fools. We can only pity the few that get it!
But thats the price they have to pay for living with dumb people.
Please VOTE JOHN McCAIN

excellent post Gina!
may I quote you?

Jesus organized a group (Disciples) to perform community organizing and to teach future generations about perform community organizing for the “least of theses.”
Read “Acts” in the Bible to learn about the community organizing performed by Apostle Paul. He did much more than convey the word of Jesus. He taught people how to organize and give to the needy.
Acts 2:42-47, Acts 11:27-30

Just as they did 2000 years ago, the same kind of group that rails against the ‘religious’ and those of ‘faith’, the anti-religious who by any measurable poll, the majority of which are supporting Obama, seek now to use Jesus for their own personal political gain.
When Jesus fed the multitude they followed Him, they liked the free bread. But when he spoke to them about the falseness of their motives to follow him (they simply wanted more free food) and their refusal to accept who He claimed to be and the true change of heart He told them they needed, they turned away, later crying “crucify him”. Jesus did not come to organize communities, He came to change hearts so that those who belonged to communities would do as He commanded which would empower them to change their own communities. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” The first and greatest commandment Jesus Stated. “Love your neighbor as yourself.” He stated as the second most important command. Matthew 22:37-38
Jesus is not for politicians and those who support them to use to score cheap political points as this union boss. Virtually every politician who has ever served as president has appealed to and for Divine guidance, Democrat and Republican in times of trouble.
Bottom line, the left precipitated this. The left simply needs to stop making fun of mayors of small towns or former ones (such as Sarah Palin) who work hard all across this country in small out of the way and oft ignored communities, mayors without names and from nowhere, to organize and run those communities. Then Obama the former community organizer and those like him, who often work with mayors for the betterment of a community will not need to feel diminished.

Being a “community organizer” for a non-profit, for pay in excess of the people you’re “organizing”, isn’t quite a Martin Luther King-like undertaking, especially when it’s undertaken as a resume-builder.

Jesus wasn’t a Maxist shill.

Here is what is gut splitting. How most politicians don’t actually understand their own communities and just exploit them.

Jesus was a GOD’s messenger…
Don’t spread trash knowledge…won’t help anyone…

Julie, Obama did Community Organizing at age of 25 and then he did not do anything till his age of 47.
Jesus in turn sacrifice his life by doing Community Organizing to fight against people like Obama who do not understand the Bible and whose pastor preaches “God XXX America”.

Comparing Obama to Jesus is pathetic, sacrilegious and laughable. If the media were truly responsible and reported on just what Obama did as community organizer it would be apparent that this is no post-racial candidate. Much of his effort was devoted to advancing the political power of the African American community at the exclusion of other ethnic groups. Why else would an Ivy League lawyer have attended such a controversial church unless it was in keeping with his political views at the time? Al Sharpton yes, Jesus Christ never!

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.” — Barack Obama
_____________________________________
If Obama is expecting to feed everyone with five loaves of bread and two fish he had better shop someplace cheaper than Whole Foods.

Stop lying on Barack and Jesus. He is not using Jesus as his claim. Just like the Right has no lock on GOD either.

I can see why some people think that Jesus was an organizer because He did feed the hungry, but when you read the context, it wasn’t so much that their hunger had bothered him, but that it was also a manner to teach about the salvation provided by God. Other posters were right; Jesus stayed away from politics. In fact, he was lured into it by the question of taxes, and also whether He would restore Jerusalim at that time. Jesus didn’t use people for His own advance. Instead, He allowed others to use Him, but to further God’s Kingdom. There are, of course, none of these attributes in Obama.

How ’bout that nice, natural air conditioning that the tenants in 3 buildings enjoyed, courtesy of Obama, the Community Organizer, throughout one cold Chicago winter?????
That Obama – always putting others first!
Hmmmm, I wonder what Jesus would have done?
PUMA! McCain/Palin 2008 – In lieu of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her sex.”
- Susan B. Anthony

Gina, Jesus was everything. He came to save the world from SIN. He is world, nation, and local community organizer. His messages are for the whole world for everyone to listens to his WORD.

The RNC is the sacreligious bunch. They RNC ran the dumb AD and lie to pretend that they actually use there views.

It’s amazing to see the Republicans turn on hard working class miners. After the Murray Mine (big Rep. money man) scandal in Utah looks like you would have better sense. Miners and their families don’t forget.

So Puma. What did you do for the people on the South Side? When di you show up to help stabalize a community?

The media, MYT, WaPo, ABC, and CNN should be shamed of themselves. MsNBC should just shut itself done for doing lousy work:
Since they didn’t know anything about her, they started making things up. Anything that fit the caricature of a right-wing hypocrite was thrown up with, seemingly, no fact-checking.
They said she opposes contraception, when she said in a campaign debate that she is pro-contraception. They said she cut funding for pregnant teens, when she provided a massive funding hike.
They accused her of cutting funding for mentally disabled children, when she raised it 175 percent over the former administration. She was said to have been a member of the wacky Alaska Independence Party; The New York Times had to run a retraction.

harry, Read this!
Samantha and anyone else that thinks the same.
Obama didn’t say that he was Jesus, nor did he say that Jesus was a community organizer. Some one else made that statment,So why do you blame Obama?
DON’T HATE THE PLAYER! HATE THE GAME!!!!

-fempharoh08 Ask Obama to stop this nonsense.

MLK was a Republican
Jesus did not lie like Mr Obama does.
Jesus Led with Goodness and truth, Mr Obama does not. He leads a campaign, full of hate towards others.

“Jesus Led with Goodness and truth, Mr Obama does not. He leads a campaign, full of hate towards others”.
Oh thank you Brother Hagee want to be. The one full of hate is you, and you will be rewarded without a doubt.

Jesus would not have been worrying about abortion, sex ed to kids in schools. He is looking for us his followers to take up the mantle to love people enough to help eliminate the cause of unwanted pregnancies instead of judging people for their free will, which by the way he didn’t impose on while he was here. Seems like people have more chatter about what others should do instead of seeking the power from GOD to help to the knowledge of Christ.

Obama = Jesus???
Yikes!
(Then what is Rev. Wright?)
+++++++++
In Chicago, Obama was political operative organizing the community for political special interests. He was not working the soup kitchen or helping the poor.

There is not one elected black republican in the US House or the US Senate. Why is that?
_______________________________________
Funny you should mention this, I am not an Obama supporter but did you know that the person Obama was up against for his US senate seat was Alan Keyes of Illinois, an African American who was running as a Republican? Ironic.

Jeff
Quick!
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!

“did you know that the person Obama was up against for his US senate seat was Alan Keyes of Illinois, an African American who was running as a Republican”
Yes, Keyes jumped into the Senate race at the last minute after Gov Ryan freaky side got a public airing because Republicans .
What was that percentage Obama got in getting elected again? Oh yeah it was above 70% to less than 30% for Keyes.
Obama was so far ahead he went campaigning for other candidate post his wonderful convention speech.

What was that percentage Obama got in getting elected again? Oh yeah it was above 70% to less than 30% for Keyes.
Keyes was branded a carpetbagger, it was a landslide.

Forget about it – none of those things listed as said by John McCain was as cruel and hurtful as the things the Obama Supporters said about Hillary, Bill and Chelsea, and by extension, Hillary’s Supporters.
In case you forget, most of Obama’s Supporters are members of Hillary’s own political party – the Democrats.
Also, we don’t really care about McCain and his first wife – that is between them and to this day, she remains a strong supporter of his.
We Won’t Forget.
PUMA! McCain/Palin 2008 – In lieu of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her sex.”
- Susan B. Anthony

LeeLee07 Barack did not ignore sex. He also made his choice strategically. Hillary Clinton is not out of the picture. Just sit back and wait. Mrs. Clinton will probably more influence. Than you realize. Just step back and look at the whole picture.

Jesus is a community organizer and Pilate was a Governor. What a timely parallel.

One term you seldom ever hear in the same breath is..Republican community activist or advocate! Why is that? Do republicans ever think of anyone but themselves? Is it all about just you(the individual) or do any of you care about the “collective.” And when it comes to religion…why are you all so “self righteous?” It reminds me of the pharicees during Jesus time. Their claim was simple, Jesus can not be the savior if he did not come from with-in our circle (party, church etc..) Sound familiar? No one is calling Obama Jesus or a Savior or the Messiah in that context. Stop it already and really think with logic. Study history and try not to make the same mistakes over and over again. Stop just thinking about yourselves and remember we “all” live here and are not going anywhere! For you business owners…what do you think will happen if poor people and working poor poeple have a better life? They will spend money with “you” for goods and services idiots!! Stop hoarding all the resources and get smart!

-fempharoh08, if people are dividing themselves then it is job of Great Obama to Unite them.
O Great Obama, the great Community organizer; may you guide the people and create that Unity Bridge. Let the people see what you see. O Great Obama. We know we have not said anything but it’s your Apostle that are dividing voters. Share with them the gift of your intelligence.

Oh yeah. Stop blaming the candidate for their online supporters. It makes no commen sense and we all know it.
Keep it to what the candidate and the people that actaully get paid to speak for them. Anything else is not even worth discussing.

Wrong, tc,
The only distortion is made by people who equate Obama with Jesus Christ and Sarah Palin with Pontius Pilate…
Comparing Obama to Jesus in an analogy is simply blasphemy…
And desperation…
And you know it…
Anybody But Obama…

“And, the United Mine Workers President uses the name of an American Indian in an attempt to belittle John McCain…” Wrong!
“Tonto” is not an American Indian name, even though it belonged to the Lone Ranger’s faithful Indian sidekick. It is a Spanish word for “fool”. He used it as a humorous riff about characters in old ’50s TV westerns…like James Garner’s “Maverick” series, where the Brett Maverick character was a loveable, womanizing, con-artist and gambler.
At any rate, either name is an apt description of McCain: George Bush’s foolish sidekick or a womanizing gambler trying to con the american people.

The DNC, Obama and his Supporters will reap what they have sown.
The harvest will be very bitter, indeed.
We Won’t Forget.
PUMA! McCain/Palin 2008 – In lieu of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“No self respecting woman should wish or work for the success of a party which ignores her sex.”
- Susan B. Anthony

Thank You TC. So, you are saying if we have different Opinion from Obama them we are less of an Adult.

Where did you left-wing nuts get this analogy! Jesus Christ was the Son of God, who came to earth to die for our sins! Bammy is not the son of God, and in his eyes, he is sinless and it is all about him! What blasphemy!

Dr Hubert, interesting view point. What’s your take on John McCain? According to the uniformed code of military justice, shouldn’t he have been court marshaled for voluntarily disclosing sensitive intelligence data after having been “broken” by the North Vietnamese? I’m curious to hear your take on John McCain. And if it’s as concise as your historical contextualizing of Obama, I do look forward to hearing your opinion.

Jesus was a community organizer? Was he a socialist community organizer like Saint Barack?

Brain-$Power$, what sensitive info did he reveal?
Were others prosecuted for doing what Mr McCain says he did?

Keepyourheelsdown, your backing the man. You’ve obviously got online access because you’re blogging. You have access to the same information that I have access to. Do your own fact finding research. It’s out there, and it’s published. By the way, neither candidate’s sold me so far. But if I had to make a choice based upon what I’m hearing, researching and reading, I’d take my chances with any candidate that isn’t in it because he believes that “God” has ordained him or her to lead a nation.

Jesus was NOT a community organizer. He healed individuals one-at-a-time. He spoke to crowds, but didn’t organize them! In fact one of his lessons/parables taught that the boss should pay each one of his hires whatever he felt was right, or necessary for that individual, whether the laborer was hired for the entire day, or was hired at the last hour of the harvest.

Jake – Jesus is a myth.

“No one with any education in ancient history or related topics thinks Jesus was a myth”
Jesus was a myth.
There is no historical record of him anywhere.
Where did you go to school, Falwell’s Liberty U?

Wow.
I heard the Dems said they changed their ways and were going after the religious vote.
Based on these posts it’s all too clear what the Dems REALLY beleive in.

for all of you Jesus and God-haters way up at the top of this thread, I offer you congratulations! It isn’t often that one fulfills prophecy, but you did today. Peter said in the last days, people would scoff at the mere mention of God and Christ.

Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson are the community organizers I would more closely link to Obama.

If Republicians compared themselves to GOD or a higher power, the media and the Democrats would be chanting that the Republicians were anti religion. As a Christian, I always have to be tolerate and understanding or I am considered prejudice . When people are anti Christian they are just expressing themselves. Talk about double standards.

Actually, you can’t send an idiot to Harvard. And an idiot will never be chosen to run the Harvard Law Review. An idiot can however transfer to six different universities in five years. And an idiot can graduate 894 out of 899 in his Naval Academy class.
There is nothing honorable in lying about your time as a POW. There is nothing honorable about voting FOR torture. There is nothing honorable about supporting insurance coverage for Viagra but not birth control.
Anyone who feel the needs to refer to Obama by his middle name is a racist xenophobe.

But as fas as I could tell, Jesus DID not vote “PRESENT”.

Yeah….But Republicans believe Jesus has taken sides and joined the Republican party…..he is now a reformer and quit his community organizing…

I don’t have a problem with community organizations. I think they can create change for the people that need it the most. However, when money earmarked for community organizations goes into the political machine, we need to rethink their usefullness. Why should we increase our earmarks when they have excess money to divert to the Democratic Party? Why should taxpayers money (both Democrats and Republicans) go to the Democratic Party. ACORN has endorsed Obama this week and have donated to his election. As a Republican, I object to my tax dollars going to a political party, when it should be used for helping the poor and unemployed.

Jesus did not bomb innocent civilians or try to build a bridge to nowhere. Instead He called us to serve others, calling it the basis for “eternal life,” when we serve “the least of these,” or again, cross the road to help the “good Samaritan.” Jesus did not call us to mock those who follow his teachings or endorse and follow those who do. At the same Palin claims being a politician is the ideal. Politicians are the responsible ones she asserted, not those who serve others. Someone can’t imagine Jesus would have anything to do with ACORN, a group that goes into Americas ghettos and does what politicians have failed to do. But 2000 years ago conservative Christian leaders, protecting their positions of power, could not imagine that Jesus was the Messiah. He became involved with “outcasts,” those denigrated by society.

Keep offending people, Obama supporters. It’s working, really working…to send people to the other side. Comparing ANYONE to Christ as if they were on the same level is offensive.

I personally am offended. I was a Hillary supporter who has always believed in both sides of the issues in certain areas. The Democrats have lost me. Comparing a man, a simple man actually to Jesus, is truly the seal on the coffin for me.

I find the comment that “Jesus was a community organizer” highly offensive. To me this is mocking the Son of God for political purposes.
Jesus is the Son of God, he is our Redeemer and Savior.
To compare Jesus to any person, is inappropriate and offensive. This is way out of bounds.

Martin Luther King was an organizer. He mobilized people to take on hypocritical politicians. Palin bashed politicians in part of her speech, then argued that politicians like her are more responsible than community organizers, like Martin Luther King.