osewalrus ([info]osewalrus) wrote,
@ 2008-09-04 08:04:00
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Ah the RNC . . .
Very briefly:
1) This crowd is so white it's frigin' scary. In 2004, Rs made a real effort to showcase the idea that they weren't just the party of rich white people. Aparently, that promotional effort has gone by the wayside.

2) I am not incensed that both Rudy Gulliani and Sarah Palin think there is something silly about being a community organizer. I am incensed that the Republican National Convention thinks community organizing is funny. When Rudy said Obama was a community organizer, even before he got to the payoff line about how that's not experience (because getting a large group of fractious people motivated and organized around a common goal on a non-esxistent budget is work for pussies, right?) while the Illinois delegates were doing the traditional chant when your state is mentioned thing, the rest of the audience was smiling and laughing and whooping it up. hee hee! A community organizer! What a ma-roon! What a dork! Caring about crap and trying to get people engaged in the process. Ha hah hah!

On the plus side, I suppose that is why we routinely kick ass in this Administration.

And how shocking! Karl Rove and the Fox News Team loved Palin's speech.

I am still waiting for the Ds to start a campaign around "How can anyone who spent 2 years pushing for alaska to suceed really put America first?" But I suppose that will wait until next week.


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[info]redaxe
2008-09-04 04:38 pm UTC (link)
1. 2004, somewhere around 6%. 2008, less than 2%. So yeah, bleached big time.

2. Obama does have the ground game, especially combined with Howard Dean's troops. The only way the R's will challenge is through church-based organizations. Which reminds me, had you seen this, about the Pulpit Initiative? ("On Sunday, September 28, 2008, we are seeking pastors who will preach from the pulpit a sermon that addresses the candidates for government office in light of the truth of Scripture. The sermon is intended to challenge the Internal Revenue Code's restrictions by specifically opposing candidates for office that do not align themselves and their positions with the Scriptural truth. By standing together and speaking with one voice, it is our hope to recapture the rightful place of pastors and churches in American life.") Want to bet on the orientation of preachers who'd be prosecuted, even given audio and video evidence that both sorts committed this breach of IRS rules?

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[info]thelongshot
2008-09-04 05:13 pm UTC (link)
One thing I have noticed, there are a good number of conservative African-Americans who are going over to the Obama side. A lot of them feel like McCain isn't reaching out enough to them.

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[info]agrumer
2008-09-04 06:04 pm UTC (link)
I didn't see Rudy's speech, but I'm not surprised. He probably still thinks of community orgs as outright enemies from his time as mayor.

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[info]drcpunk
2008-09-04 07:48 pm UTC (link)
So, George Washington was a community organizer when he held his army together, despite, if I recall correctly, losing battle after battle, and having to keep his officers from rioting because they were owed back pay?

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[info]osewalrus
2008-09-04 08:33 pm UTC (link)
Not so sure I would characterize George Washington as a community organizer because he was a military leader working under military authority. Sam Adams, Paul Revere, and the other Sons of Liberty, by contrast, were community organizers because they went into their communities to mobilize and persuade their fellow colonists that they needed to take action to get their concerns addressed.

I would count many religious organizations, including many Evangelical and conservative orgs, as community organizations and their leaders community organizers. They are people working within their communities to address issues of concern to their communities. It is not exclusively a progressive calling, or even necessarily a political calling. This is one of the reasons I was so surprised that Gulliani and Palin made the term a target of abuse and the RNC delegates thought it a grand joke.

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[info]magid
2008-09-09 02:48 am UTC (link)
The T-shirt I heard was being made has:
JC was a community organizer.
Pontius Pilate was a governor.

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