Comments on: John Lewis was a Community Organizer. MLK too.

By: Joe

Joe — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:10:00 +0000

"...Sarah Palin completely dissed all those who are involved in community organizing last night with this quip:..."

That's a lie.

She dissed Barack Obama, not all community organizers.

You are smart enough to realize that aren't you?

I sure hope so, because you have a lot of half-truth points of view.

You seem to take the approach, "This is what I want to be true, so I will say (or write) it and it will be true."

Truth is what actually happened.

By: "rush"

"rush" — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:04:00 +0000

“You can put lipstick on a community organizer, but that doesn’t make a presidential candiadate.” He also said, “Nobody with pigs’ ears should make pig comments.”

By: KGray

KGray — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:38:00 +0000

Journalist Christopher Hayes of the Nation, in the excerpt you quote, has run with some now-debunked rumors about Sarah Palin.

I don't care if it's Obama is really a Muslim or Sarah Palin faked her pregnancy, wanted Alaska to secede, and banned books from the library, this is nothing but disinformation.

I've read the court papers on "Troopergate." I hope you will, too; they're online. Facts are helpful.

More facts please, journalists, before you all lose your actual responsibilities.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:32:00 +0000

And typical of liberal elites to think that communities need some Ivy-league educated outsider to come in and ‘organize’ their communities for them, because, of course, the actual people who live there and have their lives invested in their communities are too dimwitted to do it themselves…

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:37:00 +0000

Prentice -

Indeed she was trying to make a comparison...and in that comparison she says that being mayor has ACTUAL RESPONSIBILITIES as opposed to a community organizer.

Why are some Palin supporters so desperately trying to defend this comment?

She would be smart to apologize to community organizers and move on. Instead, she will hear about it through the rest of the campaign season.

By: Prentice

Prentice — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 23:31:00 +0000

I agree with Mike that most of you are completely missing the point that Palin made. She had been attacked hard by the Dims for only being Mayor of a small town before her election as Governor of the largest state in the Union. Her brilliant response was to compare being Mayor to being a “Community organizer.” She Nailed It. And now McCain is leading in the polls!! B’diddy, call Fox Obama. He desperately needs help. USAF Chaplain.

By: dunningrb

dunningrb — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 20:35:00 +0000

“What other politician do you know who has an 80% approval rating. The lady must do something right!”

I guess by this logic, George Bush must be doing something seriously wrong. Let’s hope that if elected, McCain charts a completely different course for our nation.

By: Ken Coffee

Ken Coffee — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 19:07:00 +0000

What other politician do you know who has an 80% approval rating. The lady must do something right!

By: Alexis

Alexis — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:04:00 +0000

Um, community organizing is an ACTUAL Job with ACTUAL responsibilities.

Unless you are ready to redefine the terms “JOB” and “RESPONSIBILITY,” you’re the one who has “completely missed the point.”

By: mike

mike — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:35:00 +0000

You completely missed the point. She was not knocking community organizers’ contributions to society. I believe her point was that, unlike being a mayor or governor, being a community organizer is not an actual job with responsibilities, quantifiable benchmarks, and accountability.