James Taranto asks a simple question in his analysis of Obama's experiences as a Community Organizer:
Reader, when your toilet breaks, do you wait around for some Ivy League hotshot to show up and organize a meeting so that you can use your collective strength to wring concessions from the powers that be?
Or do you call a plumber?
Or do you call a plumber?
A WSJ editorial, Obama Tax 3.0, outlines the changing Obama tax plans. From the primary's tax-em-all approach (1.0), to the general election shift to the center (2.0) to the 'oh my God, I'm going to lose' 3.0 plan.
At the bloodless level of simply wishing to win, the Obama camp may have concluded that in the sprint to November it is a losing strategy to be the election's only doctrinaire tax raiser. A tight race tends to focus political minds, and none forget Walter Mondale's catastrophic promise in his 1984 acceptance speech: "Mr. Reagan will raise taxes, and so will I. He won't tell you. I just did."
James Taranto led a Community Organizer joke contest. Here are some of the jokes submitted:
Nelles Hamilton: What's the difference between a "community organizer" and a pit bull? Teeth.
Dagny Billings: What's the difference between a "community organizer" and a seeing-eye dog? Even a blind man can see the dog is actually helping someone.
Michael Roberson: What's the difference between a "community organizer" and a Chihuahua? The Chuhuahua will eventually shut up.
Bob Vorick: What's the difference between a "community organizer" and a puppy? One will grow up to become a loyal servant of mankind.
O. Nara: What's the difference between a "community organizer" and a shih tzu? Zu.
Taranto: What's the difference between a "community organizer" and a pit bull? It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand.
Dagny Billings: What's the difference between a "community organizer" and a seeing-eye dog? Even a blind man can see the dog is actually helping someone.
Michael Roberson: What's the difference between a "community organizer" and a Chihuahua? The Chuhuahua will eventually shut up.
Bob Vorick: What's the difference between a "community organizer" and a puppy? One will grow up to become a loyal servant of mankind.
O. Nara: What's the difference between a "community organizer" and a shih tzu? Zu.
Taranto: What's the difference between a "community organizer" and a pit bull? It's a black thing, you wouldn't understand.
The WSJ editorial, Obama's Lost Years, talks about Obama's undergraduate years at Columbia. Specifically, the fact that we have zero information on those four years. The editorial lists the many things unknown, and the few things known:
What can be said with some certainty is that Mr. Obama lived off campus while at Columbia in 1981-83 and made few friends. Fox News contacted some 400 of his classmates and found no one who remembered him. He had transferred from Occidental College in California after his sophomore year because, he told the Boston Globe in 1990, "I was concerned with urban issues and I wanted to be around more black folks in big cities."
