Community Organizers Respond To Palin’s Attack, Cite Civil Rights Movement
Community Organizers Respond To Palin’s Attack, Cite Civil Rights Movement
Last night during her speech to the Republican National Convention, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sought to play up her experience as mayor of a small town in Alaska by mocking community organizing:
PALIN: And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves. I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.
Today, the nation’s leading organization’s responded to Palin’s attack:
– Center for Community Change: When Sarah Palin demeaned community organizing, she didn’t attack another candidate. She attacked an American tradition — one that has helped everyday Americans engage with the political process and make a difference in their lives and the lives of their neighbors.
– Assn. of Community Organizations for Reform Now: ACORN members, leaders and staff are extremely disappointed that Republican leaders would make such condescending remarks on the great work community organizers accomplish in cities throughout this country. The fact that they marginalize our success in empowering low- and moderate-income people to improve their communities further illustrates their lack of touch with ordinary people.
– USAction: These groups, and the millions of individuals they represent, are dismayed by the recent dismissal of their efforts in the form of political attacks. Community organizations have been at the heart of every major reform in modern history – from the Boston Tea Party to the civil rights movement for example, the quest for civil rights began when community organizers mobilized the disenfranchised.
– Community Organizers of America: The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we’re trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed. Maybe if everyone had more houses than they can count, we wouldn’t need community organizers. But I work with people who are getting evicted from their only home. If John McCain and the Republicans understood that, maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to make fun of community organizers like me.
Faith In Public Life has more responses from leading community organizers.
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kind of like attacking small town mayors.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:19 pmMethinks 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.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:21 pmCan you provide the text of said “attacks” on small-town mayors?
Thanks ever so much.
I recommend you follow the link that TP provided.
here’s a sampling:
“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.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:22 pmCommunity Organizers of America: The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we’re trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed.
There’s the money quote, Team Obama. Right there!
PEACE
September 4th, 2008 at 6:23 pmI imagine the community service members of the moose club were doubly offended.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:24 pmIs there ANY group (aside from extremist right wingers) that these people have not offended? This is fun as hell to watch.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:24 pmGov. Sarah Palin: Former PTA member now PTA hater. Shame on you Gov. Palin! Your comment on community organizing was a slap in the face to anyone who has ever been involved in the PTA.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:24 pmralph. a weeks worth of dismissing her as a small town mayor with no experience and now progressives (TP) is incredulous that Palin might dismiss Obama’s experience. Sounds like a double standard.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:25 pmkind of like attacking small town mayors.
I know, I’m waiting for Rove to apologize to Tim Kaine and Richmond, VA as well. Thanks for reminding us, backup!
September 4th, 2008 at 6:27 pmI guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.
She’s right, a mayor does have responsibilities. These are the responsibilities she promptly passed off to the Administrator she hired to run the town.
Well, there is one thing you can say about Ms. Sarah, she knows how to delegate.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:27 pmThere’s a world of difference between pointing out that experience gained as a small-town mayor doesn’t quite measure up to the requirements for the Vice-President’s position on the one hand, and on the other saying that community organizers have no responsibility.
One is a fair assessment of the relevance of the experience, the other is a mean-spirited swipe.
I’ll leave it to you to figure out which is which.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:32 pmbackup Says:
kind of like attacking small town mayors.
Most small town mayors actually do their jobs and most are not paid a cent. Ms. Sarah, on the other hand, pulled down a $68,000 a year salary and promptly turned over the actual work to an Administrator she hired. I guess she needed all that spare time to get pork for her town and run up a 20 million debt she left behind.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:32 pmHey, she only got interested in special needs children now that there’s one in her family. Maybe when she’s out in the street she’ll start respecting community organizers.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:32 pmPost a link where Obama said anything about Palin being a small town mayor.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:34 pmbackup, I usually don’t respond to trolls, however, I think you have some mirror time ahead of you.
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=WZU9GGBI2jM&eurl=http:/ / www.crooksandliars.com/ page/ 3/
Now, who started the “Palin is not qualified” narrative? And just in case you missed yesterday’s little gem courtesy of water bearers Noonan and Murphy:
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=CrG8w4bb3kg&eurl=http:/ / www.crooksandliars.com/ page/ 2/
Now, show me one, just one single clip of Obama, Biden or another campaign official who has said anthing close to that level of distain.
Just one.
Thanks for playing “I-had-a-point-but-I’m-wrong”
PEACE
September 4th, 2008 at 6:34 pmAnd Repugnicants want everyone to be what they can be. What about those called to community organizing? Sarah just stomped on your dream…
September 4th, 2008 at 6:35 pmMy father was a small-town mayor, of a town probably about the same size as Wasilla. He got no salary, presided over (I believe) twice-monthly meetings, and was very popular for the job he did.
He was a good man, a hard-working, intelligent and caring public servant (and a Republican) but I don’t think he would have considered himself a qualified candidate for the Vice-Presidency of the United States.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:37 pmbackup Says:
ralph. a weeks worth of dismissing her as a small town mayor with no experience and now progressives (TP) is incredulous that Palin might dismiss Obama’s experience. Sounds like a double standard.
She was not just dismissing Obama’s experience. He can handle barbs like that. She dissed all community organizers by her comments. You put lipstick on a pig, it’s still a pig. Like you backup, you are now and will always be a pig.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:39 pmI thought she delivered the small town mayor line with all the panache of a late-night comedian performing at the Poughkepsie Giggle Shack.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:40 pmbackup Says:
ralph. a weeks worth of dismissing her as a small town mayor with no experience and now progressives (TP) is incredulous that Palin might dismiss Obama’s experience. Sounds like a double standard.
Here’s a simple question, backup: do you think that serving as the mayor of a town of 5,000 people qualifies someone to be president of the United States? And remember, this is a town in a state that has a massive surplus as a result of oil and gas revenues, a town whose mayor grabbed millions of dollars in federal pork, and a town whose mayor left them with a $20 million debt. And, as noted by Bilbo, a mayor who hired an administrator to do the actual work.
And, while you’re at it, would you make the same judgment about someone who had been the mayor of Richmond, Virginia; the Lt. Governor of Virginia; and the three-year Governor of Virginia?
September 4th, 2008 at 6:42 pmGood for you, community organizers. What inspired work you do for those who have lost much, and sometimes, all hope. We need you to speak up when you have been attacked, especially since the media has been muted by the Rovian Repugs. Too bad the press did not do it’s job evenhandedly over the last eight years. But we have your courage and indignation to serve us all.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:42 pmI think Jon Stewart said it best a couple weeks ago (and I’m paraphrasing),
Republicans LOVE America, they just HATE half the people living in it.
When the GOP alienate everyone but the 29-ers, the Holy Rollers, Utah, Wyoming, the 5 people living in Alaska and Joe Liebermann, they’ll be sorry…..but Fox will always be there to tell them who to hate.
Knuckledraggers all!
September 4th, 2008 at 6:44 pmralph and Shayne. you’re right.
Many have tried to highlight her small town mayor experience as her relevant experience. (Although she’s been the Governor of Alaska for a year and a half).
But, I see where dismissing her experience as small town mayor as inadequate qualification for VP, would not be as insensitive to the position as Palin’s remarks are to community organizers.
I imagine it wasn’t Palin’s intent to insult community organizers, more likely to dismiss Obama’s experience as her’s has been.
But, it could have been done better.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:44 pmbackup Says:
I imagine it wasn’t Palin’s intent to insult community organizers, more likely to dismiss Obama’s experience as her’s has been.
I “imagine” that her intent was to pretend that “community organizer” summed up Obama’s entire life and work experience, so she could pretend that she had more experience than he has. Of course, she could have also compared her “executive experience” with McCain’s, except it would point out what a stupid argument is being made.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:47 pmgummitch. you’re ignoring her experience as Governor.
I would have to go back and check it, but I believe Geraldine Ferraro was in the House of Representatives for 6 years before she was brought on to Mondale’s ticket in ‘84. Would we question her experience?
September 4th, 2008 at 6:49 pmIsn’t it hilarious watching the cowardly right wingers bend over backwards to defend this running mate choice?
It’s almost as if they really know deep in their hearts that this is a prime example of the kind of poor judgement that John McCain has and it scares them (like most things seem to).
September 4th, 2008 at 6:50 pmIs she going to punch somebody in that picture?
September 4th, 2008 at 6:50 pmWhat are the qualifications of being a community organizer? Seems to me that the term has becom a national punch line. Palin wiped the floor w/Obama, and it was very funny because all good jokes have elements of truth. Palin power!
September 4th, 2008 at 6:51 pmLeft is on full defense, and the game has been completely changed. Keep attacking her, LOL, you’ll see how far hate will get you.
I imagine that if she had stopped to think about it, she might have realized that this mean-spirited swipe at Obama was phrased such that it tagged millions of good-hearted, civic-minded Americans along the way.
But that would take sensitivity and class, neither of which seem to be highly valued at the RNC. Those aren’t real “red meat” kinds of things.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:52 pmaww, here comes dribbledick to prove my point
thanks, dude
September 4th, 2008 at 6:52 pmWhat are the qualifications of being a community organizer?
You have to know how to spell B-E-C-O-M-E
September 4th, 2008 at 6:52 pmLOL!
now THAT’s funny
September 4th, 2008 at 6:53 pmWow, backup. I think you owe TK a beer or something after your shift today.
He came along and actually made your argument look almost reasonable.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:54 pmbackup Says:
gummitch. you’re ignoring her experience as Governor.
I would have to go back and check it, but I believe Geraldine Ferraro was in the House of Representatives for 6 years before she was brought on to Mondale’s ticket in ‘84. Would we question her experience?
I’m not ignoring her experience as governor, but it’s less than two years and she’s the governor of a state with a tiny population and a huge budget surplus; she hasn’t had to face any of the problems that virtually any other governor has. She’s also under investigation for how she abused her authority as governor.
Before you compare her to Ferraro, you should do a little reading. “Six years in the House” barely scratches the surface. It also ignores the four years she spent as ADA in New York City.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:54 pmMcCain and Palin will stand by these comments. They are the party of ‘Ownership.’ Review the transcripts, they rarely if ever mention the working class. Their pitch is to small business owners and up.
This collection of comments are from people representing organizations and agency whose government assistance the McCain/Palin admin would immediately cut once assuming power.
The problem is too many Americans fall for this wasteful spending line. This wasteful spending we are talking about is 1 percent of the federal budget. The salaries of Congressmen and women and their staffs is nearly equal, yet there is never any discussion of cutting that out of the budget - one would assume since the people have not been represented, especially during the past eight years, they would be the first to go.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:55 pmIf Palin lost her job because it got sent overseas due to her and McCain’s economic policies, she damn sure would have a different view on community organizers.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:55 pmSomeone help me…
Palin was a journalist and a journalism media and she is attacking the media? What is up with that?
September 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pmAMEN, God Bless! I have been WAITING for this kind of response! BTW, why can’t the rest of the Democratic party (i.e. Hillary Clinton) stand up and fight back like this????
September 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pmThe republicans on Sarah Palin:”She has sooo much executive experience! PTA, Small Town mayor–that’s vitally important! More important than stoopid community organizers!”
Well, point taken.
So two questions: 1) How much executive experience has John McCain had?
The answer is none. John McCain has never run a corporation, never worked at a corporation, never was a mayor or a governor or administered a school district or anything. It’s the military and Congress. That’s it. Never run so much as a Burger King or a real-estate office, and never elected to an executive post.
If that’s important, why doesn’t John McCain have any?
2) If it’s so important, why did McCain choose someone with so little of it. “She has more than Obama!” was that it? Was that the criterion? Find someonee with more executive experience than Obama? Just so it tops the line?
If executive experience is important, why not Kay Bailey Hutichinson? Christine Todd Whitman? Or are we talking too much here?
If McCain had chosen Whitman, I would have been impressed: New Jersey Governor, head of the EPA, Republican maverick for real–the sort of Republican woman that actually might get some Hillary supporters to vote for her on the ticket.
What puts Palin over Whitman? Experience? no. Intelligence? hah. Christine’s even as pretty as Sarah.
You know, when you announce your draft picks on a football team, and you chose a slower runner over a faster runner, and announce you’ve chosen that player because of their running speed, people may legitimately ask what the hell you’re up to.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pmYeah, and George Bush’s experience as Governor of Texas really prepared him to be such a wonderful president. Dick(head) Cheney has been a resounding success as vice-president.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:56 pmIf experience, practical or otherwise, was the only benchmark for anyone to attain a given position of employment no one would ever acquire a first job.
What are the qualifications of being a community organizer?
Q~ What are the qualifications necessary to be the Republican Vice Presidential nominee?
A~ No Comment, we’re not taking questions along this line any more, LIBERAL MEDIA!
BTW Obama was editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated magna cum laude… that qualifies him for a lot of things, but he CHOSE to work as a community organizer.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:57 pmNow what was McCain saying about those American caps again?
“Jesus was a community organizer. Pontius Pilate was a governor,” - Mudflats.
September 4th, 2008 at 6:58 pmTripleKick 15 Says:
What are the qualifications of being a community organizer? Seems to me that the term has becom a national punch line. Palin wiped the floor w/Obama, and it was very funny because all good jokes have elements of truth. Palin power!
Left is on full defense, and the game has been completely changed. Keep attacking her, LOL, you’ll see how far hate will get you.
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That is very smart of you. Keep attacking palin? She just happened to be the person who gave that speech. She hasn’t offered an opinion to this point. So before you anoint her the savior, let’s here from her!
September 4th, 2008 at 6:58 pmsatirev Says:
Does anyone know what college McCain graduated from and what his standing was in it? Of course, his Daddy coddled him through and paid off the teachers at Anapolis….where he still graduated in the lower 1% of his graduating class. Case closed.
Hey, that just proves he was a maverick! And a fun, regular guy!
September 4th, 2008 at 7:01 pmSorry; but acorn is a pathetic org that routinely registers illegals to vote, and registers dems twice. We all know “the Chicago way”. Keep attacking :)
September 4th, 2008 at 7:02 pmif only you had anything to back that up
what am i saying? you right wing sissies are all hat and no cattle
September 4th, 2008 at 7:02 pmI love the brief pause one of our citizens took on NBC Nightly before calling Palin a seemingly vicious person.
backup. Palin has guaranteed the demise of the McCain campaign. She has inadvertendly got the media to start doing their job. She has no temperament and she arrogant toward the media — all pointing to the next Dick Cheney.
Obama/Biden have been so respectful to her thus far, and she does nothing to return the favor.
What an extremist.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:03 pmPalin Power obviously couldn’t use some of that ‘Power’ to preach those good ole’ Republican values to her underage daughter.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:04 pmPalin wiped the floor w/Obama, and it was very funny because all good jokes have elements of truth. Palin power!
LOL,dude
Campaign contributions since Palin spoke last night:
Dems 8M
Reps 1M
advantage to the guy the Republicans said did not have executive experience.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:05 pmHaven’t we had enough after 8 years of a classless White House?
This bimbo has even less class than McCain, a once decent human being before he sold his soul to the oil barons.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:05 pmWednesday night on stage in St. Paul, both Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani belittled Obama’s work as a community organizer in Chicago in the 80s. Obama called the reaction “curious,” as if he were trying to jump from a post-college job to the presidency.
“The question I have for them is that why would that kind of work be ridiculous? Who are they fighting for?” he said. “I think maybe that’s the problem - that’s part of why they’re out of touch and they don’t get it because they haven’t spent much time working on behalf of those folks.”
Obama dismissed accusations from Republicans that comments and reports from Democrats and the media about Palin are sexist, saying that digging into her record can only be expected.
“I assume that she wants to be treated the same way that guys want to be treated, which means that their records are under scrutiny. I’ve been through this for 19 months. She’s been through it, what, four days so far?”
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/ 2008/ 09/ 04/ obama-ive-been-called-worse-on-the-basketball-court/
again:
Who are they fighting for?”
September 4th, 2008 at 7:06 pmI proudly donated $1000.44 to McCain/Palin today. It had everything to do with palin’s speech. She is so ordinary, yet so extraordinary. Feeling very confident about November. Keep attacking, please :)
September 4th, 2008 at 7:08 pmj swift Says:
Campaign contributions since Palin spoke last night:
Dems 8M
September 4th, 2008 at 7:09 pmReps 1M
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Nuff’ said.
Triplekick has no need for community organizers. His mom keeps his Cheetos supply in check and his bed made. Employment? Unnecessary. Life is good for Tripledick.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:10 pmOn “executive experience”: Obama has managed one of the most brilliant campaigns in modern history. One that employed more people than Alaska, had an exponentially larger budget than Alaska, and was built without resorting to the same old politics of personal destruction that the Republicans and their right wing idiot constituency loves so much.
Enough about this bogus “executive experience” argument.
Dubya couldn’t successfully run a lemonade stand and you morons made him president, TWICE! Get over yourselves already.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:11 pmIsn’t that going to be a problem the next time your sister has her friends over to play Monopoly™?
September 4th, 2008 at 7:11 pmHere’s a little more knowledge about John McMaverick.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:12 pmhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20689.htm
Bush’s experience in a nutshell: Georgie W ran a few oil firms back in the day, but the bad news is he was bailed out by the Saudi’s and eventually ran the firms right into the ground. He was also governor of Texas for four years, and most notably fought to keep Terry Schiavo alive saying it was ‘god’s will’ to keep her alive. Because the Republicans know best. Riiiiiight.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:16 pmTripleKick 15
Suuure…$1000.44. Well, if that is the case, you could have spared your mother the extra $.44. Between the Cheetos and new bedsheets, you’re rapidly approaching her card limit.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:17 pmYou do realize that Ferraro lost don’t you.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:21 pmAccording to Article II of that “God Damned Piece of Paper,” so called by Chicken George WTF, the only qualifications to be President, and by extension the Vice President. of these United States are that the candidate must be a natural born citizen of these United States, be at least 35 years of age and 14 years as a resident of these United States. Therefore ANY argument about relative experience is completely worthless and would border on unconstitutional if rated as a factor in choosing a President. One may argue the relative merits of one’s own experience vis-a-vis ones ability to fill the office but to argue that an opponent’s experience, or lack of same, disqualifies him or her from holding that office is untrue and probably could be proven to be a crime of at least slander, character assignation, perjury, or possibly treason. I, personally, am sick of this shit. Don’t tell me what your opponent can or can’t do. Just show me what you can do and I will make up my own mind.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:22 pmtttrooll sez:
What are the qualifications of being a community organizer?
if you have to ask, you don’t have them.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:22 pmRT, great points.
On the other end of the stick, 53% of republican delegates have a net worth of $500,000+. Every act of kindness is pejorative to them, so their refusal to look into the concept of community organizing, such as a directory of organizations, comes as no surprise.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:24 pmA suspicion — hasn’t the deadline passed to donate to the campaign, or is it nearing? The repubs are sooo wealthy and prosperous — so why do they need the $80M in public assistance?
September 4th, 2008 at 7:30 pmhey, isn’t al sharpton a community organizer too? LOL
September 4th, 2008 at 7:34 pmSucks to be supporting a joke candidate eh?
One of Ms. Palin’s first forays into public life was as a member of a community organization who formed the police force of her town. She is a community organizer.
Alas, she will never learn that fact unless some Reverend, or guy with an (R) after his name, explains it to her. And even that won’t work if the voices in her head disagree.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:34 pmTripleKick 15
Palin can keep attacking, and we’ll keep responding.
TP’s got so much on this loon, and it’s driving tripledick crazier.
Republicans, all typical, believe people don’t have the right in the arena of discourse to defend themselves. They believe they can slander this great country away. Defending yourself is much more than owning a gun, tripledick.
Your campaign has been reduced to frustration against the media. HAHAHAHA dribbledick.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:44 pmHey, isn’t Duke Cunningham a Republican politician too? LOL
How about Tom Noe? Or Tom Delay? Or Larry Craig? What about David Vitter? And what’s this I hear about some “Keating 5″? Is that a basketball team? Or perhaps a pop group from the seventies?
Sucks to be supporting a corrupt joke of a party, eh?
September 4th, 2008 at 7:44 pmTo be fair, McWars, I don’t think the Palin situation is actually affecting TK’s mental acuity. I’m afraid that ship has sailed.
But I figure you meant it’s driving him crazy like a mosquito in a closed room might. That, I’ll buy.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:47 pm60.
Wrong Bush Brain you’re referring to….JEB is the idiot who fought the courts to keep Terri Schiavo alive, George pretty much sat that one out until she had been in a coma for 14 years and then nudged Frist and Delay to do something in Congress, tehn signed it into law in the middle of the night.
Still point taken - Miserable Failure is a great example of “executive experience”.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:49 pmbackup Says:
ralph. a weeks worth of dismissing her as a small town mayor with no experience and now progressives (TP) is incredulous that Palin might dismiss Obama’s experience. Sounds like a double standard.
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No it isnt a weeks worth of listening to you guys act like being mayor of a town of 5,000 was actually executive experience of any substance. You get more executive experience being assistant night manager at McDonalds. No one is saying it has NO ACTUAL RESPONSIBILITY just putting it in its proper prospective. We arent denigrating being a small town mayor she IS denigrating being a community organizer
September 4th, 2008 at 7:49 pmYou said it, ralph!
September 4th, 2008 at 7:50 pmTripleKick 15 will TripleKick 16 by tonight.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:51 pmTripleKick 15 Says:
I proudly donated $1000.44 to McCain/Palin today. It had everything to do with palin’s speech. She is so ordinary, yet so extraordinary. Feeling very confident about November. Keep attacking, please :)
j swift Says:
Campaign contributions since Palin spoke last night:
Dems 8M
Reps 1M
Haha, lil trippler is one of the 1,000 people now supporting the McCain/Palin ticket!
September 4th, 2008 at 7:52 pmTripleKick 15 Says:
You are such a sad and pathetic joke. You just come in here and spew out whatever your hivemind masters have programmed you to say like Pavlovs dog. If you ever had an original thought it would immediatly die of lonliness.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:54 pmGloat away trolls. Buy-bull Bimbo will not attract a single person who doesn’t wear Pat Robertson jammies to bed each night. Flippy McSpin’s campaign has brilliantly chosen a deeply flawed candidate in order to “attract” voters they already had. This campaign is, almost, as well planned as Bushco’s foreign policy.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:56 pmTripleKick 15 Says:
Sorry; but acorn is a pathetic org that routinely registers illegals to vote, and registers dems twice. We all know “the Chicago way”. Keep attacking :)
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Sorry but you are just a liar and a fool and your ignorant troll act precludes you from anyone caring what YOU think about ACORN.
September 4th, 2008 at 7:59 pmSilly trolls. There’s no need to “attack” Ms. Palin. She does it herslf. I didn’t catch who said it but, a prominat Dem pffered this critique: “She certainly motivated the Faithful with her speech. Unfortunately, she didn’t include a single true statement”.
On the odd occasions when she actually tells the truth? She sounds like a moron. Perhaps that’s why the campaign has not allowed her to do interviews? Perhaps they know that, as soon as she has to answer a single question, on any subject, her utter lunacy will become apparent to anyone with a functioning synapse or two?
September 4th, 2008 at 8:02 pmHey TK you’re starting to convince me!
Anyone who attends 5 colleges in 6 years has got to be qualified! Right?
http://www.salon.com/ wires/ ap/ 2008/ 09/ 04/ D9304JE80_cvn_palin_education/ index.html
Obama only attended Columbia and Harvard, Palin has more than DOUBLE the colleges! She’s a keeper!
September 4th, 2008 at 8:03 pmpete, the Republican Way is to avoid substance and sell the talking points — sell sell SELL the talking points. For this reason, Sarah Palin serves them very well as an empty vessel. She’s a blank slate onto which the party faithful can project their fondest desires.
If people actually get to know her, that will be destroyed. Hence, no interviews.
Or maybe I’m wrong and they just know that she’s so bat-shit crazy that interviews will reveal stuff that will turn off the rest of America.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:06 pmTripleKick 15 Says:
hey, isn’t al sharpton a community organizer too? LOL
Sucks to be supporting a joke candidate eh?
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Why dont you stick to something you have experience in. Tell us how bad it sucks to be YOU an ignorant, hivemind punk-ass troll without a shred of decency nor any ability whatsoever to make a cogent point. You are a pathetic piece of human debris a couple of rungs below pondscum on the evolutionary ladder. You are an embarassment to our entire species troll
September 4th, 2008 at 8:09 pmCatch a clue America, Republicans HATE YOU.
If you are not one of the “haves and have mores” you are dirt to them.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:10 pmI thank the GOP for picking this nitwit - if Obama & Biden can’t ponce on her stupidity then they deserve to lose.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:25 pmBuckie Boy Says:
Catch a clue America, Republicans HATE YOU.
If you are not one of the “haves and have mores” you are dirt to them.
That’s not true. Every two years and every four years, they gin up some divisive issue so middle America will vote for them. Repubs LOVE uninformed America’s votes. Repubs don’t hate Americans — BUT they do get immense pleasure out of getting them to vote against their own best interest
September 4th, 2008 at 8:27 pmWell ralph. When I’m in an optimistic mood I think that Ms. Palin will strike out with the, pissed-off, moderate majority. And I’m not greatly concerned with her influence with the same 20% who made Bushco possible.
And the comments on GOP sites, and on local Reichradio, aren’t terribly complimentary. 6 of 8 callers on the local post convention night show, a group who are a bit right of Lush Rimjob, commented on her “screechy” voice and questioned the value of a “stunt” in a close election. I suspect that they are finding it hard to get behind a woman on the ticket. I think some of the built-up misogyny, which they can’t unleash on Hillary, will be turned against her. And if she proves as bad as her public record would suggest, her selection will make a lot of moderates question McSpin’s judgment.
While I’m very much aware that logic has little to do with American politics, I don’t see any way she will attract people who are seething over Bushco’s follies. I really think that the moderate majority is motivated enough to result in a much more disparate election than most polls would indicate. Though during the 23 1/2 hours a day that I can’t maintain my optimism, I’m a little less hopeful.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:36 pmTripleKick 15 Says:
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I proudly donated $1000.44 to McCain/Palin today. It had everything to do with palin’s speech. She is so ordinary, yet so extraordinary. Feeling very confident about November. Keep attacking, please :)
September 4th, 2008 at 7:08 pm Recommend (0) | Report Abuse A couple of things come to mind here:
September 4th, 2008 at 8:46 pm-a fool and his money are soon parted.
-theres a sucker born every minute.
Or to borrow from Fred G. Sanford
-I called the bank and the checks still bouncing
-You’re just dumb son.
take care
tony and lido
pete.
If she’s been a community organizer, maybe she knows what she’s talking about on the subject.
By the way, Flippy McSpin is fantastic. Did you come up with that?
September 4th, 2008 at 8:47 pmDribbleDick15 Says:
I proudly donated $1000.44 to McCain/Palin today. It had everything to do with palin’s speech.
…And I am on the sidelines of the NY Giants giving play selections to Eli!
Ya know, delusions of grandeur are indicative of schizophrenia.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:53 pmMay I suggest an increase of your psychotropics?
There’s a good argument, backup. I think you should go with that.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:54 pmSince Jesus was a community organizer, and every Christian church supports community organization, I expect every true Christian to stand up and denounce this speech. I expect every church this Sunday to criticize Palin’s attack on our Lord and Savior.
Think this will happen?
Well, let’s just say I ain’t holding my breath.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:59 pmTripleKick 15 Says:
I proudly donated $1000.44 to McCain/Palin today.
LOL The 44 cents was so the number wouldn’t look “made up”…like it was. What a moron!
September 4th, 2008 at 9:00 pmI may be a little low. I think it is 10M actually and the stock market tanked but I don’t know if that was a reaction to GOP ticket.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:00 pmYep, b-kup. Flippy McSpin is my original contribution to political discourse. The past tense is Floppy McSpun.
And I find it extremely ironic that Ms.Palin would denigrate her opponent for beginning his political career in much the same way she did. It’s almost as amusing as the poor schmucks who insisted that her obscurity is irrelevant because no one had heard of Sen. Obama before he spoke at the convention four years ago!
Seriously. They completely disregarded the four years he’s spent on the national scene since then! I almost feel sorry for them.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/ 2008/ 09/ 03/ matthews-vs-mccains-proxies-on-the-medias-vetting-of-palin/
September 4th, 2008 at 9:04 pmThis women is basically a dumb ass who will do anything (blow grandpa)McCain or say anything to get power. If you think darth Vadar is bad just let her get in office. There is nothing worst than a tramp who sleeps her way to the top and then believes that she worked hard to get there. One second thought when you are sleeping with a 72 year old man, I guess that is hard work. Things don’t work the way they are suppose to at age 72. Even the little blue pill doesn’t work that weel for guys at 72.
But I guess when you use the oldest profession in the world as a tool to get what you want, then what do you expect. The sad part about it is, I wouldn’t try to PLEASE a 72 year old women for any amount of money. That’s just too much to ask. On the other hand if she were worth a billion dollars I admit I’d be very very much in love with her until she passed. Then I’d have to find a young hottie to make up for the bad memories. But this women sold herself and will never see the oval office unless she takes a guided tour. She just got a passport last year for God’s sake, I mean what kind of foreign policy experience could she have.
The last time I check dictators can’t be bribed by sex, they have plenty of free girls in their own country. So how exactly would she go about dealing with Putin and that idiot in Venezuela? They’d just say: “Get off your knees” I can get that for free right here in my country.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:06 pmShadow. I love free speech, but you could raise the bar just a little couldn’t you.
September 4th, 2008 at 9:32 pmSo, does this mean that Republicans only like gated community organizers?
September 4th, 2008 at 9:33 pmI guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.
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Actual responsibilities of Mayor of Wasalia
1) preside over city council meetings
2) appear at ceremonial functions
That’s some mightly responsibility there Sarah, and I can see why you’d belittle as non-responsible the effort of keeping people in their homes and helping them get their kids fed and in school…
Palin is the epitome of the GOP - a true no class act
September 4th, 2008 at 9:50 pmCommunity Organizers are what the Republican ELITISTS fear because they know that they are only in power through manipulation of the masses through wedge issues and appealing to their basest emotions. No wonder why they are trying to destroy ACORN through faux voting fraud cases…
September 5th, 2008 at 3:15 ambackup Says:
“I love free speech, but you could raise the bar just a little couldn’t you.”
My sentiments about the entire Republican National Convention backup, you hypocritical bottom feeder!
September 5th, 2008 at 9:34 amYour time has past Obama. The lights in the grand stadium have been turned off. The styrofoam greek columns have been moved back into storage. The devotee’s are quickly fading away.
Sarah Palin is the star. And, unlike you Obama, she is for real.
September 5th, 2008 at 4:26 pmOh god, Tim43, I think I just vomited on my keyboard. Did you have ti go to a special school to learn to be a sycophant, or is it just your natural state?
September 6th, 2008 at 2:09 amTim43 Says:
Your time has past Obama. The lights in the grand stadium have been turned off. The styrofoam greek columns have been moved back into storage. The devotee’s are quickly fading away.
Sarah Palin is the star. And, unlike you Obama, she is for real.
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No matter how often morons like YOU parade your ignorant hivemind talking points through your endless repitition it will never make them true. MAN it is really getting stupid out there (the late great Frank Zappa)
September 8th, 2008 at 5:22 amUpon hearing of the announcement of Sarah Palin as the Vice President choice of John McCain, what was the response of the Obama campaign???
Barack Obama Campaign Spokesman Bill Burton
Sen. Chuck Schumer says:
So the Democrats attack small town mayors, yet through out the campaign we have heard how Obama’s community organizing have qualified as experience for his candidacy. Sarah pointed out the big difference between the two.
If community organizers are upset, perhaps they should have told the Obama campaign to keep its mouth shut when comparing the executive experience of Sarah as a mayor against that of Obama as a community organizer.
Hell even Obama himself tried to claim:
Too bad even Obama forgot about the State of Alaska and its 29,000 employees and 11 Billion dollar budget.
Sarah was a city council person, a mayor and a governor, Obama was a community organizer, a state senator and a US Senator. One has executive experience, and the other is trying to convince everyone else that he does too.
The community organizers of the world can be mad all they want at Sarah, but the blame for the remark resides with their Golden Boy Obama.
October 24th, 2008 at 5:43 am