Community organizing is a hoot!
Nice find from Kevin Harris who blogged the Republican’s digs at Barack Obama’s community organizing experience:
George Pataki: ‘He was a community organizer. What in God’s name is a community organizer? I don’t even know if that’s a job.’
Then former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani delivered his own snickering hit job. ‘He worked as a community organizer. What? Maybe this is the first problem on the resumé,’ mocked Giuliani.
A few minutes later, in her acceptance speech for the GOP vice presidential nomination, Sarah Palin declared, ‘I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.’
One of the responses from the Obama camp was:
‘Let’s clarify something for them right now. Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.’
Exactly…that is exactly what community organizing is. Republicans do it too.
It’s beyond me why so many Republican politicians find it so hard to be actually funny. Every time I hear “jokes” like this, I just want to draw a little square in the air in front of me whilst rolling my eyes. It’s as if years of country club roasts had conditioned them to slightly off-colour jokes being met with nervous titters.
chris,
community organizing or not…
I have on good authority from someone who has made predictions in the past that have come true that:
1. Obama will win the popular vote
2. The Republicans will win the White House again through a variety of dirty tricks
3. Israel will attack Iran before Inauguration Day next year, taking out the main nuclear sites there.
4. Iran’s response will be more bark than bite. Despite predictions of regional war and the like, the most that Iran will do will be to cause more problems in Lebanon, Iraq, and Palestine through proxies.
Nevertheless, the Obama candidacy has been revolutionary as it is a type of leadership that we have never seen before nationally.
warmly,
raffi