Community Organizers Respond To Palin’s Attack

They should absolutely be offended by her remarks. I was disgusted by how much hating was thrown around in the speeches at the RNC. Sure, the talking heads were meant to be attacking their Democratic opponents. But what they didn't stop to think about was a lot of what they were saying didn't actually apply to their opponents at all, but instead to many American people. And while all the snide and cutting remarks were cheered on at the convention, they ended up looking like disrespectful jerks to the rest of us.

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backup Says:

When Sarah Palin demeaned community organizing, she didn’t attack another candidate. She attacked an American tradition…

kind of like attacking small town mayors.

NoMoreBush Says:

Methinks Sarah Palin has just begun giving the gift that keeps on giving. Like her “master,” she opens her mouth and inserts her foot.

Heckuva job Governor Lightweight.

“As a life-long Republican, the comments I heard last night about community organizing crossed the line. It is one thing to question someone’s experience, another to demean the work of millions of hard working Americans who take time to get involved in their communities. When people come together in my church hall to improve our community, they’re building the Kingdom of God in San Diego. We see the fruits of community organizing in safer streets, new parks, and new affordable housing. It’s the spirit of democracy for people to have a say and we need more of it,”said Bishop Roy Dixon, prelate of the Southern California 4th ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the Church of God in Christ, member of the San Diego Organizing Project and former board chair of PICO. PICO is comprised of 53 faith-based organizations and 1,000 faith communities from 50 denominations working in 150 cities and town and 17 states.

whatever floats your boat. Again, you guys are so scared of this woman is is making you guys act irrational and uh crazy.

These morons don't seem to realize that our countries strong sense of community service and volunteerism extends to all the men and women in the armed forces.

Yes, you can successfully argue that unfair policies like the so-called "stop-loss" and "back door draft" programs exist, but the fact remains that we have one of the largest, and still one of the best, all volunteer militaries in the world.

So, essentially, they've just spit in the eyes of all the people fighting their wars for them.

Why does any of this matter? Please.

as a community organizer I wasn't exactly offended by that comment. moreso her entire speech.

however, i think it highlights her lack of experience. she was trying to throw a political jab and ended up pissing off thousands of people who have a direct impact on politics. Now imagine if she had done something similar with China, Russia, Pakistan, or Europe.

Don't think, not even for a second, that the speech writers and attornies didn't consider the backlash to that putdown. It was all about the sound-bite.

arent beauty queens community organizers? hypocrisy is never far from the lips of any neo-con.

Community service is the backbone of our country, but these rich power broker republicans don't care about the little guy when they can pull political strings to get their way or even buy the police.

She was responding to what she was said she was like, was she not?

I don't think this was an insult that those those who were...overly sensitive.

Stir the hornet's nest. I'm sure being "peaceable" and "anti-war" means you're reasonable and calm.

Oh wait...nah.

Her qualifications were under attack. She drew a comparison between her experience and that of Obama. In other words, if Obama is going to tout "community organizer" as part of his resume, then why is "small town mayor" worthy of ridicule?

ACORN is SCUMMY!

I have to agree, I was deeply offended at Palins speech. I felt that she wasn't attacking the other candidate as much as she was attacking me and my ideals. This was the first time I have become involved in the political process, something that is truly American, and there she was mocking my efforts and excitement for the campaign process. Shame on her!

For reference, Ms. Palin, here's the first amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Note that the people have the right to peaceably assemble.

We're not scared of Palin, arcticspirit. We're appalled by her.

For those of you seemingly beaten, gang-raped and left for dead by outright stupidity, here's a list of some of the people she pretty much discredited:

the founding fathers of the United States (they were community organizers)
Cesar Chavez,
Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Dorothy Day,
Congressman John Lewis,
Paul Wellstone,
pretty much every food bank and neighborhood watch,
Habitat for Humanity,
every suffragist in American history(and by extension the feminist/women's movement)
the Christian Coalition,
the Christian Community Development Organization,
Outreach International,
Nelson Mandela,
the Civil Rights movement,
the Latino/Chicano movement,
the gay rights movement,

and yes, Barack Obama.

The only thing people would fear about Sarah Palin is how she and McCane could TOTALLY SCREW THEM OVER if they get elected.

Why does she need to compare her experience with Obama's anyways? SHE IS NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT, everyone needs to stop acting like she is.

Of course community organizers should be offended....hell Im offended! I was a community organizer for a population larger than that tiny town she was mayor in (and by the way, when she was mayor the population was 5,000 not 9,000 like she keeps saying)!

Her whole speech was nothing but hate and vile...she dissed a lot of people including San Franciscans (btw San Francisco has a higher population than the state of Alaska). How can she even try to speak about uniting the people when her whole speech just tried to alienate and divide!?

Honestly I was a Hilary supporter and although I never even considered voting Republican, the way the Republicans and especially Palin have been acting has just made me a more passionate supporter of Obama. Republicans just want to further the class, race and sex wars in this country...they dont want to unite us as one, they only want to divide us and beat us down.

Whether she was intending to insult every community organizer in America or not, her message to me is that above everything else, she is NOT a team player. Her comments speak of an elitist class mentality. By claiming that her background in elected office is more meaningful than someone else's background in community service is to claim that there is a hierarchy and structure around public service and that some members of the team are more important than other members of the team. Specifically, that she was more important to her team than were other members of her team. This is not the way a good leader speaks or acts.

Hers is an attitude that is destructive to leadership. It is an attitude that fosters mistrust, capriciousness, unfairness, injustice, and a host of other problems amongst the team. Since she is proposing that we elect her the vice-president of our team of hundreds of millions of people, I find her attitude about leadership disturbing and unworthy of my support.

i wldn't care much if mcain became president. i respect the guy. its her running mate who scares me. there's something about her. she gives me the willies. she reminds me of one richard nixon. ouch! but i mean it. she does. besides, when obama was helping folks in the southside of chicago get back on their feet when he was just 23 (yes,23)MIZZ palin was in front of her mirror practicing on her huge, fake, permanent, grin for her next beauty pagent. so who's the joke on? really?

I'd trust a community organizer over someone with "executive experience" any day, but who needs "leaders" when you have democracy?

at the end of the article....

"Should They be offended by her Remarks? "

They should be offended by THAT remark, author "buttcrack".
Of course they should be. How those comments made by republican leaders could ever be construed as anything other than offensive, in the very least, is a mystery to me.

MCCAIN / PALIN ARE MONSTERS

"Someone needs to remind Sarah Palin that Jesus Christ was a community organizer and Pontius Pilate was a governor." Oh wait...she should probably know that being a devout christian and all.
You can't preach without reading your Bible Sarah.