At the Republican National Convention, McCain's running mate Sarah Palin downplayed Obama's time as a community organizer back in Chicago.

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And, really, when he went to the State Senate, he tried to do a lot of things that would help the people that he had been helping back as a community organizer.

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At least one tournament organizer is striking back: Bleid Sports of Lexington, Ky.

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Electronic tickets were less common back then, and the festival organizer had written to tell me that my ticket would be waiting at the KLM counter at the airport.

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Way back when, when I was a community organizer in Chicago, I saw what happened to a family or to a school or to a community when a student dropped out.

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