"So what's the big deal...

...about Community Activists*, anyway?"

Seems a bunch of Community Activists are getting their panties in a twist about people pointing out that Barack Hussein Obama's primary life experience has been as a Community Activist--in Chicago, at that.

Michelle Malkin has an excellent post today about a national organization of Community activists, with ties to the Obama campaign, accused of voter registration fraud in my hometown, Detroit**, and in Cleveland. There have certainly been suspicions here in King County, WA, that Mayor McCheese of Seattle has brought with him some election day tactics from his hometown of Chicago, i.e., The Graveyard Vote and the principle that one should "Vote Early, Vote Often."

*AKA "Community Organizers." The terms seem to be synonymous.

**Detroit politics was described by novelist Loren Estleman as "Read a book about Chicago Machine Politics while playing James Brown real loud." Coleman Young was still mayor at the time (and I am still astonished that Mr. Estleman got away with printing that.) But as a metaphor it is accurate enough, and resulted in my not trusting "identity politics"--i.e., "He's One Of Us and therefore will do a good job"--at an early age. I also realized that the corollary--"He's NOT one of us and therefore will do a lousy job"-- is equally questionable.