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Originally Posted by Thepaindispenser

Obama has also lived off of the Government his entire life. What the hell is a community organizer?

No. False. Your rabid, nasty-tempered blind ignorance, lying and stupidity are simply stunning:

Obama's first job was working for the Catholic Church, managing a budget, employees, hiring.

Obama worked 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.

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.

Obama also worked as a consultant and instructor for the Gamaliel Foundation, a community organizing institute.[48]

Obama worked his way through law school, like most poor students:

While in law school he worked as an associate at the law firms of Sidley & Austin in 1989, where he met his wife, Michelle, and where Newton N. Minow was a managing partner. In the summer of 1990 he worked at Hopkins & Sutter.

He graduated with a J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1991 and returned to Chicago.[51]

Obama returned after graduation to Chicago, got married, more work:

Obama directed Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992. He headed up a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that achieved its goal of 400,000 registered African Americans in the state, leading Crain's Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be

Although fundraising was not required for the position when Obama was recruited for the job, he started an active campaign to raise money for the project. According to Sandy Newman, who founded Project Vote, Obama "raised more money than any of our state directors had ever done. He did a great job of enlisting a broad spectrum of organizations and people, including many who did not get along well with one another."

With kids on the way, Obama went to work at a better-paying, more regular job, as a teacher:

Obama taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School for twelve years, as a Lecturer for four years (1992–1996), and as a Senior Lecturer for eight years (1996–2004).

Obama then worked as a full-time lawyer:

In 1993 Obama joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004. During the four years Obama worked as a full time lawyer at the firm, he was involved in 30 cases and accrued 3,723 billable hours.

And then, this man who worked his way through school, life, marriage, and starting a family, entered politics.