Here is Sen. Obama's response to the "community organizer" slight. It is a good response but here is the bottom line, to Republicans, the argument doesn't have to make any sense. It never does. I think we have always known that, but it was reconfirmed to me more on my recent trip to America. John Kerry was a Navy officer and a war hero. He was a prosecutor and a Senator. This was all the wrong experience. Being a war hero was ridiculous. Having a rich wife made you a joke. Sen. Obama worked his way up form the bottom, so he is an elitist with no experience. Gov. Palin is a refreshing outsider. Teen pregnancy is the scourge of America. A mark of our heathenism. Teen pregnancy in the Palin household is heartwarming. A testament to their strength as a family. A black family? A Hispanic family? A non-christian family? It is time to realize that it doesn't matter in the least. To be a Republican is to be a follower. It is to swallow whatever shit gets handed down to you and to ask for more.
Whatever we on the Left do will be wrong. Whatever we are will be wrong and laughable. Just get used to it. Whatever they, on the Right are, from draft dodger to child-molester, from codeine addict to adulterer will be the most natural thing in the world. It would be nice if the media would notice this every one in a while, but that is asking a bit much isn't it?
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I read somewhere that the "Community organizer" mockery had been prepared for by weeks of chatter on Limbaugh where it was made clear that "Community" means ghetto. Not sure if it's true, but seem to remember my source was Slate. Anyway, you are absolutely right about the nuttiness of the profound hypocrisy of many who claim to be issues based, but are more than willing to flip and flop if the candidate is right wing and mean enough.
I speak with a great sadness that Rush has been spinning this idea of Obama's "community" as urban folks who live off drawing a check, a welfare check. I know this because my mom has fell for it hook, line, and sinker. She talks about Obama lacks of experience as a drawback even though we want somebody that can galvanize groups of people and is that not what George H. W. Bush talked about with his 1000 points of light. Experience? Sarah Palan was the mayor of a town of 9000. The county mayor of Caliborne County Population 27,000 spends most of his days hanging out at my grandpa's hardware store don't his staff of one other person lets him know when the work needs to be done.
Change? McCain has voted with Bush more than 85% of the time. That's a lot of compromise and status quo for the agent of change. When I hear folks start buying into this !@#$, I think well you get the party you vote for, then I think !@#$ I have to live here too. When will Bill Moyers and Amy Goodman get their own news network? When tha majority of folks actually research the stories they hear or read.
Thanks Battlestar...I had forgotten where decisions are made.
I think that argument applies if they're actually talking about a real issue, but they're fucked with those so they're doing whatever it takes to draw people away from them. These aren't arguments, but distractions that the average voter sees as an issue. It really makes you wonder how flawed Democracy is.
Have you seen the anti late-term abortion bill that went through the Illinois Legislature when Obama was part of it? He voted against it cause there was a law already in place that did the same thing, and that one would be grounds to overturn roe vs wade. Naturally, They're making it look like Obama supports killing babies. Of all the outrageous shit the Republican Slime Machine has ever done, this tops them all. I've never thought I'd have to convince people my candidate has morals.
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