From NY Times’s Organizing Principles: “What do community organizers do?…[They] aren’t there to solve people’s problems for them — they’re there to teach people how to help themselves…How do they do this? Every effective organizer I’ve ever known has had this talent: the ability to listen to people, rather than spin them or demonize them. Organizers don’t seek personal glory, they help other people lead and be recognized for that leadership….A president familiar with community organizing would seek out diverse views to formulate policy rooted in the realities of ordinary life. He would know how to build coalitions to overcome the entrenched interests that block progress. Most important, a president with community organizing skills might engage ordinary Americans in the practice of democracy every day — not just at election time.” [Read the Times' whole series on how the candidates backgrounds can help each of them be a better president.]