Bryon York on the Community-Organizer-in-Chief

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTcyZTZmOTM2MDlmYmY5ZTFlMWFiNGU2M2M2ODJmZTg=

My sense is that Republicans weren't mocking community organizing itself as much as Obama's constant claims that it is one of his qualifications to run the executive branch.  There are, after all, lots of good things you can do that do not qualify you to be commander-in-chief.  And in any event, Obama's vision of "the Lord's work" was always fundamentally political.  From his memoir, Dreams From My Father:

When classmates in college asked me just what it was that a community organizer did, I couldn't answer them directly. Instead, I'd pronounce on the need for change. Change in the White House, where Reagan and his minions were carrying on their dirty deeds. Change in the Congress, compliant and corrupt. Change in the mood of the country, manic and self-absorbed. Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots.