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John McCain Doesn’t Care About Block People
Posted by: Noah Bonaparte Pais in News & Politics
Or so the Republican National Conventioneers would have us believe. With the post-Gustav information blitz enlightening some formerly dark corners of New Orleans, I took the opportunity to catch a few hours of last night’s RNC, where I was treated to some of the most offensive rhetoric to come out of a major political party in my lifetime. The attacks, which mocked Barack Obama’s experience two decades ago as a grass-roots activist on Chicago’s South Side, came not just from Rudy Giuliani, the failed candidate for his party’s nomination, who spit out the term “community organizer” twice as if he secretly held Habitat For Humanities responsible for taking down the Twin Towers, but from the party’s vice presidential nominee herself, Gov. Sarah Palin. “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities,” she said, referencing her previous job as chief executive of Wasilla, Alaska, population 7,028. The partisan crowd, waving signs that read “Prosperity,” ate it up. But I had to wonder how such insults — not just to Sen. Obama, but also to anyone who has ever worked for or benefitted from a neighborhood organization — were received by small-town Americans, for whose interests Palin’s nomination was supposedly engineered, or by citizens in New Orleans, whose own community organizers averted potentially substantial loss of life during the Gustav evacuation, allowing the GOP to proceed with their grand ole party as planned. A simple “thank you” would have sufficed. The “f**k you” they got instead is unpardonable.
     
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Comments:
Lizzy Caston on September 4th, 2008 at 12:27 pm #

Yeah, that’s pretty lame. The thing I found really offensive though from last night is Palin’s only mention of a Hurricane striking the Gulf referred to oil and “protecting our interests.” Not one mention of Hurricanes and people, public safety or Gustav along the Gulf. Disgusting and just unpardonable in my book.

Here is the synopsis of that telling moment where it dawned on me Palin is the RNC’s new oil czar: http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0329440320080904?virtualBrandChannel=10003

double_mg on September 4th, 2008 at 1:06 pm #

i have never felt so democrat till i watched the RNC last night. But at this point its not even a dem or a Rep its just about what are you going to do about this economy we have going here. nobody talks about how bush has knocked us back to 1998 in the stock market. Why are the Rep praising regan like we are in a cold war and the rest of the world is at war? i don’t get this, but i do know in November i will have a choice and i only see one choice for me and the better good for americans is Obama.

Brad on September 4th, 2008 at 3:13 pm #

I think you miss the point. Being a community organizer is a fine and noble thing. It just shouldn’t be in the top two or three reasons I should vote for you for President. The Republicans just seized on something that Obama touted about himself last week. I’m sure the Democrats will do the same with something McCain says tonight.

Noah Bonaparte Pais on September 4th, 2008 at 3:39 pm #

No one’s saying Obama’s resume isn’t fair game for criticism. But that isn’t what Giuliani and Palin did. They, along with an arena full of supporters, cackled at the concept of community organizing as a “fine and noble thing,” in the process insulting anyone who might consider it such (which is, I’d imagine, just about everyone). Check out the link below for an interview on Fox News, on which Giuliani flat-out asks, “Just what is a community organizer?” It’s more than just ignorant to the extreme — it’s out-of-touch to the point of being fearsome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFnJ-N1F3LY

kate on September 6th, 2008 at 7:43 pm #

i totally agree!!! i watched the RNC while holed up in my hotel room in Atlanta. They are so petty… and how the hell can making fun of someone for being a community organizer be a good joke? come on

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