Community Organizers
I haven’t covered the 2008 elections enough since the North Carolina Primaries in May and for that I apologize.
Some of the comments made on Wednesday evening have given me cause to join the conversation…Former New York City Mayor and also-ran for the Republican nomination Rudy Giuliani and Alaska’s Governor and Republican candidate for Vice President Sarah Palin ridiculed some of the most important people in local towns and cities everywhere: Community Organizers.
On the other hand, you have a resume from a gifted man with an Ivy League education. He worked as a community organizer. What? He worked — I said — I said, OK, OK, maybe this is the first problem on the resume.
and Palin said:
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.
Community organizers are those people in America’s towns and cities that represent the most marginalized residents. They go out into the rundown neighborhoods to ensure that the citizens that are least empowered by government are informed. They meet with local businesses and governments and residents to make a better America.
That the Republicans denigrate and poke fun at community organizers just proves exactly how out of touch they are with real Americans and how much they really just don’t care.
I’d like to remind the Republicans of two things (both thanks to Jennifer at General Carelessness)
- The Founding Fathers were community organizers.
- Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor. (This isn’t so much important to me, but should strike deeply within “red-meat America”.)
September 6th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
The point that Giuliani was trying to make was, that Obama was not experienced enough to be President. Which is glaringly obvious from his own mouth. Also REZCO must have REALLY helped the community. The Slum landlord really cares about the run down neighbor hoods in Chicago. Lets face it Obama is a media creation.
September 7th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Thank you for your visit and comment, Andrew.
With the selection of Alaska’s Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee for Vice President, Senator McCain has taken this too-often used “experience attack” off the table.
Palin’s leadership as mayor of Wasilla and governor of Alaska has been proven as bad. She left Wasilla with $22 million debt. She effectively stole the federal money that was sent to Alaska to pay for it.
McCain/Palin is bad for the U.S., regardless of his perceived “leadership” and regardless of her perceived “experience”. Their election would mean 8 years exactly the same as the last.
America won’t survive that.