Community Organizer jab! Are Giuliani & Palin out of their mind?
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Sorry that’s a rhetorical question so no “No they are not” answers please. So, is being a community organizer bad, it seemed like that is the case from both Giuliani and Palin’s tone at the Republican National Convention where they were talking about Obama’s work as a community organizer.
Here’s what wikipedia says about community organizing
Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women’s suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America’s promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. From winning living wages to expanding affordable housing to improving the quality of public schools to getting health coverage for the poor and elderly, community organizers have made and will continue to make our communities and our country better for all of us.
Here’s Giuliani’s speech with a very demeaning “Community…..long pause…..Organizer” followed by “He worked” as a community organizer.
Maybe Giuliani forgot when New York was under attack on September 11, 2001, it was community organizers and volunteers who responded before emergency response could make sense of the chaos.
And here is our Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States of America, Sarah Palin, who believes community organizers don’t have actual responsibilities!
Nothing could be far more out of touch with reality. Volunteer contributions, when converted to dollars amount to as much as 1% of the nations GDP! Worse, not only did Giuliani and Palin poke fun, a large portion of the Republican National Convention attendees actually joined and laughed, that’s right they all laughed out loud at Americans who engage in community service, bring about grass roots change and help people, communities in need.
Both Palin and Giuliani owe the volunteers and community organizers of this great nation an apology.
