America is a community of about 305 million people...and Obama's organizing efforts have resulted in around .75% of the entire country's population donating to and/or volunteering for his campaign.

This - perhaps above all other reasons - is why McCain's gonna get buried, right wingers.

jdfu!

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When has the country club set needed community organizers? Also most community organizers are pro-labor, can't have that.

Also community organizers are in the big bad cities, where "other" people live. In the small town, the locals ain't have a needing for no community organizer, cause the local church helps us when they are down and need assistance.

Sorry, can't continue the tongue in cheek, cause they is a major flaw with Palin's logic. she praised faith based initive. Well look at the function of churches in poor rural areas, they act like useless community organizers. Providing resoucres and assistance for those in need. In the big city in places like Harlem and Newark, such organizers are likely to be affliated with churchs and other fait based organizations.

So what was Palin saying, that only government should assist the nation (large government liberal) or that faith based organizations have no value (godless liberal).

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When you can buy votes, own the voting machines, decide who can use the voting machines and can buy the government, you don't need to worry about organizing.

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at the Repuke convention, I couldn't buy a hamburger at McDonalds.

Damn I hate that party.

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I admit I consider myself spiritual and not religious...my idea is God = Love. I just don't understand how people who can say they believe in God can spew so much hate.

Palin and Giuliani (along with the audience laughter) at Obama's service to the community in Chicago sickened me so much that I made my 3rd donation to the Obama/Biden campaign this morning and contacted my local democratic party headquarters and volunteered to do anything I can to help them get elected in November.

Obama/Biden '08

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I was truly insulted by the Republican party's mocking response to Obama's work as a community organizer. This exposes it as a party that is not interested in freedom and democracy. Organizing people to stand up to injustice and issues that are harmed by government policies really is the ultimate course that celebrates the foundation of American democracy and makes our county better. Republicans should be ashamed of this display of disrespect to the hardworking and often selfless people trying to overcome the forces that work against us. They are truly out of touch with the needs of the people. How elitist they are!

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I intend on sending more money to Obama's campaign just as soon as I post this piece.

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Sarah Palin's speech last night has been unreal - Republicans are practically gloating at her comments, but Democrats and Independents are running the other way as fast as they can. Several here have noted that they have donated again today to Obama, and/or going down to volunteer today to make sure this woman does not get into office.

Senator Obama has asked for us to consider that changing America is something we must do together. If we work together, within our communities, we can create sustainable communities and sustainable governments that can grow and develop in a way that is good for this nation and for the future. We do this through community organizing - it is the real American way. It is the way this nation was founded - through community organizing that lead to the Boston Tea Party and the Declaration of Independence. Community organizations have built this country and been its strength through its entire history. If the Republican Party is so stupid that they do not realize that even their own party started as a community organization, that says alot about them and their leaders.

They have abandoned their original history as community focused reformers as they became the plaything of the Neo-cons, radical religious, and corporate interests. (Yes, believe it or not, they were once the party for social justice and equal rights.) This is something that Republicans sneer at because it would make them have to face that they have destroyed our sustainable way of life and our democracy. It shows that they are self-centered and arrogant idiots, because they do not see that they destroy themselves right along with the rest of us.

These speeches have finally sent Obama over the 50% mark in the polls today. I would say keep them coming, but then I remember just how stupid some people can be when they vote, and how when American Idol and the Simpsons are more important than your neighbors or your community, you vote for people like Palin and McCain.

Like many people I read today and talked to as well, the speeches last night gave me a headache. Several people actually said they could not stomach it and turned to the US Open instead - they said the pounding balls were more soothing than that woman's voice! I can hardly wait for McCain - Mr. Delusional - to give his speech tonight to the predominantly white crowd (watch the audience, they are very pale, then remember the richness of color at the Democratic convention and remember we are a nation of many colors). They will cry and they will swoon, but the rest of us will just donate more money and time to Obama/Biden '08, then go take a shower and wash off the Republican slime!

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VOTENADER.ORG !!

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most community organizers I have known pocket75% of the donations and dole out very little to the needy.Yeah,Obama organized voters to vote for him,like Acorn.

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working as a volunteer in scouting, little league baseball, and some other things -- and now this woman is saying I didn't have any actual responsibilities. Nope -- no responsibility for taking 20 kids camping in the woods for weekends, or weeks, at a time -- nothing accomplished there. No responsibilty in training boy and adult leaders or making shure the programs went well -- lets just dissolve the Boy Scouts and Little League. It was all just a waste of time, according to Palin.

So much for those "thousand points of light" Papa Bush talked about. These people aren't even Republicans.

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SO, needless to say...

grumble-bum MAD!!!

I've watched this Convention every night, either because I'm trying desperately to understand what crazy planet these people live on, or simply because I have a masochistic streak. I'm not sure which.

Out of all the absurdly blinkered hypocritical bullshit I've exposed myself to over the last couple of days, the self-righteous emphasis on "service" & the assurances that private/faith based charity will surely solve our social ills, while hissing at the hated community organizer, has got to take the cake.

So what is this "service" that hardcore Right Republican basers believe so strongly in? I will attempt to channel them;

- Military Service:

Preferably military service that ends with gory, crucifixion-evoking, patriotic torture porn. With the additional proviso that it can be pushed off largely on the underclass, naturally.

- Defending the Right to Life:

Because, see, all life is precious. Except those lives that belong to people who don't look or think like us, earn as much as we do, or happen to be homosexual. While we're at it, let's all agree to continue our policies that cause more unwanted pregnancies, & then "serve" those effected by cutting off all of their support structure.

- Did we mention Military Service?

Did we? We think we should tell that one story again... It never fails to get us aroused!

Now, if you have the unmitigated gall to be one of these (sly chuckle) community organizers, we pity your naivete, at best. More honestly, perhaps, when we speak condescendingly about people who work to organize other people for the improvement of our communities, we're really just not-so-subtly implying that you are an uppity boat rocker. See, organizing for improvement of your situation is a waste of your time, because things will never change. Because we won't let them.

See how hopeless your foolish dreams are?

I'm so glad this hypocritical hate-fest is almost over. My head is so close to exploding.

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In regards to Sarah Palin totally trashing and mocking "community organizing" - last I knew the PTA which she lists at the top of her vast resume is a form of community organizing - isn't it??????

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I cannot believe my ears. In a speech Sarah Palin is giving right now in Wisconsin she started out by using the same joke...being a mayor is kinda like being a community organizer only with actual responsibilities...Are you kidding me? Does the McCain camp not read. All I saw after her speech Wednesday night was how offended people are by this comment and she is going to go out and repeat it over and over!

I guess they really do mean it...F*ck You all you community organizers!

What a total b*tch!!! I am going to set myself up for weekly donations to the Obama campaign right after I finish with this. Geez!!!

And by the way...thanks all you community organizers and people who go out and help others less fortunate in your communities. You are my heros!

Obama/Biden '08

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all the local businesses that play FAUX NEWS day in and day out. I can't think of a better public service than to retrieve some brain cells. I'm tired of ignorant hillbillies voting more ignorant, upscale hillbillies into office.

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