[tptacek]

I don't know what you're trying to say here. Obama's work history is knowable. We don't need to reconstruct it from the gists of his speeches. He was a community organizer in the mid-1980s, working with the Catholic church, when he was 22-24 years old, in the wake of the collapse of the steel industry in southeast Chicago and northwest Indiana --- a series of events that were not, as you would have had it in your previous comments, racialized. But his job immediately prior to his career in politics was adjacent to yours: he worked in the field of law.

[rayiner]

My comment isn’t about Obama’s job history. It’s about what drives politics in the Democratic Party. When he ran for President and wrote his autobiography, community organizing was what he emphasized because that’s what plays to Democrats.

[tptacek]

Respectfully, that's not what you said, and what you said was false.