I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.

One of a overriding ames of last night’s sneerfest was a trumping & dismissal of Barack Obama’s qualifications as a community organizer for years in Chicago.  I underst& a need for Republicans to tout air own expertise — though a snideness put me in mind of a movie “Heaars” personally –but this line of attack just seems to fly in a face of a larger Republican narrative that it shouldn’t be a government doing everything for you.  If you believe that, it would seem that community organizers would be something to laud.  Especially since Sarah Palin’s own forary into politics was being a President of a PTA in order to have a voice in a educational st&ards of her children.   Or am I being just too logical for Republican minds?

Maybe a fact that most great strides we have made as a society have been made by community organizers is what scares Republicans so much.  PaulVA at DailyKos has a nice list of people that Tracy Flick Palin & C0. have just derided: 

Let’s start with Lech Walesa, a man who stood on a front lines of a fight to bring Democracy to Eastern Europe as a leader of a Solidarity Movement.  This guy was so radical, he even convinced Ronald Reagan to h& him a medal. [..]
 
an are’s Moar Jones, a woman who inspired a famous song & who is still known throughout Drunk Newsplachia as a Miners’ Angel.  [..]

Or how about Susan B. Anthony?  [..] She also actually thought it would be a good idea for women to vote.  Now that’s a radical!  Just look at what she wrought.

an are’s Cesar Chavez, a man that’s some sort of inspiration to millions of immigrants.  [..]

(W)hat about Martin Luar King, Jr?  I guess Sarah Palin must have contributed a lot more to society than him.  [..]

& last, but not least, are’s this guy.  Lived a long time ago.  Said a lot of radical stuff & got everybody all fired up.

Original post by Nicole Belle and software by Elliott Back