tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post244275695923342556..comments2024-03-26T11:07:03.496-04:00Comments on Ed Notes Online: Irony: Chicago Community Organizers Supported the Teacher Unioned notes onlinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15018047869059226777noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33431390.post-46890845399667925692012-09-23T09:03:16.045-04:002012-09-23T09:03:16.045-04:00Bizarrely, I feel like echoing the disdain shown b...Bizarrely, I feel like echoing the disdain shown by Sara Palin and Rudy Giuliani at the 2008 GOP convention when associating Barack Obama with his community organizer past, but for very different reasons than theirs, coming from a very different point of view.<br /><br />"Community Organizer?!" What is that... Community Organizer???!!! (snark, snark, ha ha ha!)"<br /><br />They were belittling the position he held. I am belittling his betrayal of the position he held.<br /><br />When I say it, my sarcasm comes from this President's terrible corporate "reform" policies aimed at public education, his extremely destructive actions toward teachers and their unions, his negative treatment of public schools and the communities they serve. <br /><br />I see a community privatizer instead of an organizer, a force for its destruction rather than its improvement. A weakener, not a strengthener. Rather than an ally of the community, this former "organizer," President Obama, has become a foe.<br /><br />Unlike Palin and Giuliani, I never wanted to cast the President in a negative light, and certainly not for these reasons. But his actions cannot be denied. He is responsible for what he has done.<br /><br />Community Organizer? He has broken those ties. He does not deserve the association with the label. He has sunk beneath it.Sandrinenoreply@blogger.com