RNC Calls Obama a Former "Street Organizer"

By Paddy


The website sucks, and the commercial sucks. They're not even really trying, just going for the dog whistle.

The Republican National Committee's new video about Sen. Barack Obama describes the former community organizer, who worked in the 1980s with churches and depressed areas of Chicago to provide job training and other projects, as a "street organizer."

"Street organizer"?

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Over at The Nation, Chris Hayes writes, "Nice. Frankly, in order to elicit the maximum degree of racial stereotyping I would have gone with 'ghetto operative' or 'slum captain' but I suppose that would have been too obvious."

Says Matthew Yglesias, "Stay classy, RNC!"

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure "street organizer" was the job description of Superfly.