Mike Keefe, Denver Post
The American Prospect website recently reported that Senator cum candidate John McCain spent some of his breath last week trying to retract Sarah Palin’s demeaning remarks about community organizers. Click here for the full article. Here’s a taste:
After an RNC where Obama was relentlessly mocked for being a community organizer right out of college, McCain declared at the Presidential Forum on National Service yesterday that Senator Obama’s record was actually “outstanding”.
. . . Except McCain doesn’t really respect people who serve their communities, because those people don’t necessarily have “scars” like he does, as he said in his acceptance speech. And both Palin and Rudy Giuliani spent their RNC speeches belittling people who devote their time to helping people who need it. Giuliani because community organizers kicked his . . . all over New York City during his mayoralty, and Palin because it was an effective cheap shot.
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pashley1916 // September 16, 2008 at 9:46 am
They didn’t mock community organizers – that’s what you wanted to hear.
Palin’s point was a community organizer’s responsibilities are nothing like those of a governor. How’s that arguable?
Kestrel // September 16, 2008 at 10:21 am
Actually, pashley1916, here’s her direct quote:
“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”
The implication could not be more clear, i.e. that community organizers have no responsibilities. To those who have been helped, nay lifted up from the depths of poverty and despair by the good works of people in their communities (i.e. by the work done by community organizers), such a statement is absurd. Moreover, if you actually watched her deliver that line, it was said with clear vitriol and denigration. Finally, given that it wasn’t just Palin demeaning community organizers that evening, it was Giuliani as well, the intent of her statement was clear.
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