GOP punch lines offend community organizers

My jaw dropped when she made that comment.

It is said that a joke is 80% truth. But she wasn't joking when she made that comment about Community Organizers.

To the RNC, Community Organizers are the law enforcement agencies who happen to oversee those who make less that 5 million dollars a year AKA the middle class...

Community organizers do a great service for this country and for these politicians to attack these people shows just how little these politicians are concerned and know about tife in the communities they are supposedly serving. What a sorry statement this makes for the Republican party, and they wonder why people don't like Republicans.

when i heard that attack i didnt quite get how that was a"bad" thing to help out your community...im still trying to figure it out..didnt Palin do work in her own community?? i dont think they should have went there

while the community organizers may be upset they are missing the point, nobody put down community organizers they merely put down the fact that the mans only resume is being one. While it is great for a community it does not make you presidential material.

So some block captain communists got their shorts in a snit over the truth, big deal.

The community that he was organizing for is still a piece of shit, so i guess he wasnt to good at it.

Ozymandias: (Hard name to spell correctly) I appreciate your point of view, and as a matter of fact my church organizes a food drive of its own. People merely need to show up on the appropriate day and we fill boxes of food for them. We don't even ask them to prove they need it. We feel if they showed up that was proof enough, and let God take care of the details. Oh, and by the way it's CHINKY not CHUNKY, a little easier to spell. Thanks.

It's ironic because the GOP shouts about how there should be less government. Don't community organizers do what Republicans don't want the government to do?

So being a state senator for 8 years and an U.S. senator for 3 years doesn't qualify you either? Based on this logic, John McCain isn't qualified to be President either. Community organizers help people register to vote, create after-school programs, help enforce safe and affordable housing and start job training programs. How does laying in a prison cell for 5 years qualify you to be President?

The idea that being a "Community Organizer" qualifies a person to be President of the Unites States of America is ridiculous.

I will vote for John McCain this election because it's not about any of the polititians or their bantering back and forth. Don't you all realize that this universe and everything in it is controlled by God? Nothing happens that hasn't already been OK'd by HIM first. We are merely players in HIS bigger picture. I for one agree with John McCain when he said we (should) serve a cause bigger than ourselves. If you in any way shape or form consider yourself to be one of the family of God, you will vote for John McCain. A man who much like Regan understands that we need God at the helm. Without HIS (God's) help this country is doomed no matter who is president.

I worked a suicide prevention hotline many years ago in college (I'm 50 now) and whether or not that would be considered community organizing I don't know. But now my kids are involved in food banks and checking in on our senior neighbors and providing services for the homeless. To hear Palin disparage people like my kids and by extension great folks like Jimmy Carter just shows that crowds' disdain for real Americans, real humans. We are simply more decent than that crowd, as we would never involve ideological or political beliefs while helping someone in need. And my kids don't need to be Christians, or Muslims or Jews to do so. They just need to be decent people- why is that so hard for others?

I'm a community organizer, but it wasn't her words that offended me.

it's her general existence on this planet

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Senator McCain's once truly 'maverick' approach to nearly every major topic has been sacrificed on the altar of politics. As the Economist clearly stated, I would have much preferred McCain One to this current iteration of a once worthy and provocative politician.

The GOP may have just done the rest of us a favor in their attempt to adopt a "how-dare-anyone-question-our-definition-of-Patriotism" approach to Service as outlined by the despicably insensitive statements made by nearly all of the speakers this past week, most especially the denigrating remarks concerning Community Service, perhaps the most ubiquitous form of selfless service to others.

Perhaps this rather large constituency that includes those of us from all corners of our economic, social and cultural spectrum will take note, and take action, to defend their commitment to others by ensuring McCain-Palin gets no closer to the White House come 04 November.

I'm not offended by her remarks. I just find them revealing of her attitude that only the government can solve problems effectively. Personally, I think grass roots movements by motivated civilians are one of the best examples of democracy in action.

But to those for don't want democracy and who instead want to control Americans with an iron fist, like McCain and Palin, community service seems to be viewed as just another threat to their dream of re-making American into something that fits their personal vision regardless of what the people want.

Most of the help americans receive is from "community organizers". These are the people who make sue our elderly don't starve or freeze to death. They get kids off drugs and KEEP them off drugs. They build communities and keep them safe.

It is, arguably, THE most important job a regular citizen can perform.

The fact that it is belittled on national television by a leader of the ruling party is simultaneously sad and terrifying.

I know John McCain will win this election but the fact that his party is so openly and brazenly hypocritical and dishonest makes me angry at the "regular" folk for not stopping them

I see America turning to shit and no one is doing what is needed to save it.

What is wrong?

Here is what some of the community organizations have said about palin's comments

http://current.com/items/89271677_community_organizers_respond_to_palin_s_attack

I do believe that most anyone who takes this comment as a slap in the face, is simply trying to make a story out of nothing. Listen I understand that if I was a community organizer and someone said to me that I do nothing of any importance, I would get offended. But, any person who follows politics and this election knows full well what those comments are aimed at.

It started when the Republicans start boasting about how much experience their candidate has, then the Democrats came out saying there candidate had a lot more experience then he is getting credit for. Upon questioning where this unrecorded experience came from the Dems boasted he has been a community organizer. The Dems then came out saying there candidate has more experience then Reps vice candidate, which was a slap in the face to anyone who has been a mayor. If you still do not understand then all I can say is, you found this web site use the resources of the internet and fact check the information on up to at least twenty five different resources then you will begin to see some of the light/information/truth that is daily washed in our world today.

Record tax breaks for the wealthy and big business
during the past eight years- "its going to stimulate jobs and the economy!"

So this record federal deficit thats been created, guess whos paying for it?

All of us- its called socializing the debt! All the while the halliburtons and big business had record income with lowered taxes - guess what this is called- privatizing the wealth!

McCain whats to continue this same Bush tax cut of the past terms with one big difference- bigger tax breaks for big business and the rich! Now we know what "Maverick" really means!

Do any of you care who you are offending? From false allegations, to photo shopping nude pics of Sarah Pailn, to insulting people who are considering voting for McCain calling them idiots.

And in what way did Palin slap any of you across the face. She simply stated that Barack's service as a community Organizer didn't qualify him to be President. She did not say being a community organizer was a bad thing.

And don't be hypocritical. How about when Biden and Obama question her experience as being a mayor of only 6,000 people. I'm sure there are sensitive mayors out there saying "Oh my Gosh! Now that's just a slap in my face! Small town Mayors deserve more than to be insulted by the Democrats!

Get real people. Don't be so sad. :)

Does the GOP really care who it offends?

If you've been involved in any community organizing activities, consider yourself slapped across the face by Governor Palin and her writers.

What does anyone at the RNC care about such trivial things as the community and the people. There's no profit in helping others. Only making war and in destruction.

I'm voting for McCain. He's leading in the polls that aren't controlled by the Obamamedia.

The Republicans once again show their true colors. Unfortunately, those who will vote for McCain and Palin can't see the blatant hypocrisy they are supporting.

I personally thought it was bullshit that the Republicans come out promoting a theme of service on Day 2, then not only trash Obama's community service, but laugh at it on Day 3, .... THEN McCain tops it off with a speech in which he demands us to serve a cause bigger than ourselves.

This party is so ass backwards it's disturbing. Just another reason I can't see how anyone could vote for McCain, ...♦