The left-o-sphere is getting fired up:
But this kind of hits me where I live, since my dad is a community organizer, so lemme spell this out: the difference between a community organizer and a politician is that a community organizer can’t tell anyone what to do. They have to listen. So they can’t order books banned from a library to indulge their own religious sensibilities. They can’t fire someone because they didn’t follow orders to fire an estranged family member. They can’t ram through a $15 million dollar sports complex that leaves their local town groaning underneath the debt. Unlike politicians, they don’t have any power other than the power of people who want to see something changed.
Decades ago, before the ADA and a raft of other legislation, schools had essentially no requirements to provide decent education for special needs children. Then a movement of parents, engaging in – gasp – community organizing changed that. And they continue to fight day in and day out for educational equity for children like Sarah Palin’s.
Too bad Sarah Palin just spit in their faces.
amen.
The truth behind the Obama community organizer debate:
The only reason Obama became a community organizer was to shore up the appeal of his lackluster resume for his Harvard Law School application. This is the strategy of every applicant, who has ambitious goals like Obama. His motivation to serve as a ‘token’ community organizer was driven more by self-interest than that of the community’s interest. He also aligned himself with the powerful Chicago political machine while he was a community organizer. This is a 100% fact. So, stop griping about Palin’s attack on faux community organizers like Obama. Real and selfless community organizers deserve our respect only.
Anyone who declares anything “100% fact” in a comment on a blog is an obnoxious troll.
If you can offer proof for any of the things you’re saying, fine. Otherwise, go away.
One thing i’ve learned about the GOP is that when they don’t have an argument about something – they make something up. I can’t believe the open mockery of community organizers in general. Doesn’t Guiliani and Palin know that there community organizers that work very hard in both parties. Community Organizers in the republican party who took offense to their speech. And I agree… trolls who come in here and state things as fact because they say so? And to throw the fact that Obama went to Harvard Law School and that his resume was lackluster – HA! He chose service first, he could have been out in wall street making huge $$$. You obviously haven’t done your homework if you actually think that you can come out of harvard law and have a lack luster resume. He could of banked right out the gate.
Jesus was a Community Organizer.
Pontius Pilate was a Governor.
Catholic Democrats is expressing surprise and shock that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech tonight mocked her opponent’s work in the 1980s for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. She belittled Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s experience as a community organizer in Catholic parishes on the South Side of Chicago, work he undertook instead of pursuing a lucrative career on Wall Street. Community organizing is at the heart of Catholic Social Teaching to end poverty and promote social justice.
Back before Ronald Reagan even mentioned the word AIDS, community organizers were in the streets, educating about HIV prevention, in some cases even going to jail for passing out condoms or clean needles to drug addicts…in the mean time, AIDS could not be discussed in the White House due to the “giggle factor.”