Why the right hates community organizers

Obviously, Shakir's education was a wasted effort. But, that was not (0.00 / 0)

something his teachers could anticipate.  One hopes that they at least got the satisfaction of having tried to do their best.

If I were emperor, I'd insist that we invent some common courtesy pills.

Why is it so difficult for people to understand that we pay for the education effort, not the result, which, under the best circumstances, aren't evident until much later?

Shakir is a bully. But, as can be seen on the tape, when bullies are stood up to they back down.  Bullies are basically cowards.  Their offensive behavior is an effort to preempt what they fear.

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by: hannah @ Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 14:12:26 PM CST

Here's the link: My reserves of empathy have run dry (4.00 / 1)

http://www.wmur.com/r-video/27...

As I watched this I thought of the Town Hall meetings Carol Shea-Porter hosted.

She handled a many hostile crowds with grace and humor when it was needed.

What a difference. Plus I don't see any pistols and "tree of liberty" placards either.

Watching anyone get dressed down like this would ordinarily make me uncomfortable--but no more.

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by: Chaz Proulx @ Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 14:24:59 PM CST

Carol Shea-Porter was obviously targeted for removal because (0.00 / 0)

she wouldn't go along with the scams.  People who can't be bought and have their own base of voters are a threat to the corrupt and power-addled.  So, they picked another corrupt shill who would extort votes by threatening armageddon if the Democrats win.  And, since they and their cohorts have no scruples, they can make good on their threats.

You know, we forget that the recession started long before 2008 in many places.  There was a lot of disinvestment going on to send the message to Main Street that electing Democrats would have dire economic consequences.

We assume, falsely, that enterprise aims for success.  Many are more interested in power and power means somebody has to get hurt.

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by: hannah @ Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 16:17:34 PM CST

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Oops missed your link Susan (0.00 / 0)

But that's the price of going viral.

LOL

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by: Chaz Proulx @ Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 14:27:11 PM CST

Last Fall (4.00 / 1)

Mr Shakir sent an email to another member of the community who works with special ed students as well as Democratic causes and it was the most vial thing I have ever read. I've encouraged her to publish the email but she's been hesitant. If this doesn't put a nail in the coffin of his career in public life I think her email will.  

On a side note, Mr Shakir also referred to all teachers as leeches at the Conway polls last Fall on Election Day.  

Town politics are supposed to be non-partisan but take a wild guess at which Congressional candidates Mr Shakir was supporting.

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by: ecorbett78 @ Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 15:52:36 PM CST

That uncut video from WMUR (4.00 / 1)

is stunning.

http://www.wmur.com/r-video/27...

birch paper; on Twitter @deanbarker

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by: Dean Barker @ Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 19:36:50 PM CST

Google search for Raymond Shakir (0.00 / 0)

All pages at the Conway Daily Sun site containing the word "shakir"

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by: Vis Unita Fortior @ Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 22:10:02 PM CST

Wow--This guy is a classic right wing hate monger (4.00 / 2)

Now I feel even better. For once a caustic wack job is going to have to slink around the town he lives in or leave.

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by: Chaz Proulx @ Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 22:14:40 PM CST

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A nursing home with more than one kitchen is "opulent" (4.00 / 3)

Yeah, reading through these letters to the editor is an important accompaniment to the WMUR "uncut" video.  The little speech he gives at the beginning could almost sound reasonable if you were give him the benefit of the doubt, reserve judgment and try not to assume that he's a monster despite his words (and, y'know, completely ignore federal law) - but it completes the picture to find out that he considers a nursing home with fifty residents having more than one kitchen to be "opulent" and calls that a "Luxury Geriatric Manor".

I think that he has probably never prepared a meal for fifty or sixty people at the same time in the same kitchen, much less when many of them have complicated health issues and dietary requirements.

He's probably just as clueless about special education - but doesn't really give a damn anyways whether a kid could've progressed to the point where she could get a job or enjoy the kinds of things he's had in his own life, as long as he can cut a few bucks off his taxes.

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by: Vis Unita Fortior @ Thu Mar 10, 2011 at 22:38:07 PM CST

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Get that wheelchair off my lawn! n/t (4.00 / 1)

"It has become Appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity"
   - Albert Einstein

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by: StraffordDem @ Fri Mar 11, 2011 at 10:08:49 AM CST

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it's to Shakir's everlasting sorrow (4.00 / 1)

that we no longer have a poorhouse in Carroll County.

He's got his. That's all that matters to him. He's the end result of  all years of Reagan era "rugged individualism" spread as a meme by the GOP.

Shakir has no interest in the community he lives in. Public service in his case, is not a praiseworthy enterprise. He got on the budget committee so that he could make decisions that would deprive others.

He was a Tancredo supporter, which pretty much says it all.

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by: susanthe @ Fri Mar 11, 2011 at 16:00:44 PM CST

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If he has no interest (0.00 / 0)

in his community, he should not be serving on the budget committee.  Period.  Was he appointed or elected?

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Sat Mar 12, 2011 at 05:37:01 AM CST

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