I have been following politics since college (1974), and I have seen a ton of dirty, low class politics employed since that time. But I have never seen an opposing candidate experience the ridicule and composite laughter of an entire convention exhibited by the GOP in Saint Paul. And for what? Because Obama spent time after college going back into a depressed area of Chicago, and giving back to his community? Because they hate community organizers? Full on laughter. Guiliani made it a joke, and the quasi religious sheep of the GOP brethren laughed along.
The Democratic party would never do that to an opposing candidate even if their pick for VP on their ticket took a job as a television sports announcer, parlaying her looks and plumbing to get ahead, rather than doing community service, or relying on her intellect at all.
The fact is, it was a joke in their eyes to do community service on the streets with the people who needed it most, that is why they do not favor any social program to any extent. Makes them weak is their mantra. The truth is, they do not like minorities. If Barack went to help whites in the Hamptons, they would value it. If Katrina had severly hurt the population of Sag Harbor, they would have been Johnny on the spot. This is why they ridicule community organizing in Chicago, and this is why you couldn't find a non-white face in the convention crowd....well, almost at all. At all. Rudy Guiliani put a face on the campaign McCain wants to run...an all white face.
Rudy Giuliani laughed out loud while noting Barack Obama's deep experience as a "community organizer." Sarah Palin cracked: "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities." Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack's experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed. Let's clarify something for them right now. Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies."
And oh, by the way, you seemed to completely skip the part of Obama's resume which told of his tenure teaching constitutional law to university students. Guess not even that is as good as being a sportscaster or mayor of Podunk, Alaska, or being for the infamous "Bridge leading to nowhere" (which Palin supported....until she didn't anymore).
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A colleague sent this to me:
"Jesus was a community organizer. Pilate was a governor."
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