If you missed her loathsome speech a couple of nights ago, one of the things that Republican VP Candidate Sarah Palin did in trying to argue that her being governor of Alaska gave her more experience then Obama running for President was to be very condescending and degrading to Obama and everyone else who did or does community organizing - that is apparently the Republican brand new code-word for Islamofascism, or un-American, or whatever. You’ll see some of the outrage at those remarks here but I wanted to focus on two very effective rebuttals to this deplorable attack.
#1 is this saying and logo that has popped up on the liberal blogosphere today:
Very effective, in my POV.
#2 is the Obama response to these snide put downs of community work and community organizing.
I heard that first one today as well.
VERY EFFECTIVE! Particularly given her being the charmer of the evangelical right.
The best explanation of the “community organizer” code I saw today, which as bad as it sounds, sounded plausible to me is the following.
To the crowd on the floor:
COMMUNITY = GHETTO
ORGANIZER = ACTIVIST
It surprised me how derisive and smug the reaction was whenever that bone was tossed out to them.
Seemed like the kinda crowd who would kick a girl scout selling cookies for camp.