Do You Know Me?

Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 11:55AM
Fred Keller in President Obama, Progressivism, Radical Left

A BATTLE JOINED follow-up to The Grand Pooh-bah of Community Organizers

I wanted to do community organizing, and I couldn't think of a better city than one as energized and hopeful as Chicago was then."

He is a larger-than-life figure, possessed of an extraordinary ego, boundless energy and an ability to captivate, entertain and outrage his listeners. It has been said that he had the gift "...of making everyone he came in contact with feel that the encounter with him had been a special, central one." Before he was known to millions; he made his mark as a Chicago community organizer, organizing the disenfranchised to fight back against racism, poverty and isolation. Who am I?

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