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Thin, thin community skin

Sep 8th, 2008 by Taylor Armerding

Memo to the everyone-is-special, everyone-gets-a-trophy, everything-gets-posted-on-the-refrigerator defenders of community organizers: Cool the faux outrage.
There’s so much crying going on here I’m afraid the members of the Democratic grievance industry are going to rust out the floors of their luxury hybrids. The skin is getting so thin that we’re starting to see the blue blood underneath. Sarah Palin is so mean. She’s so sarcastic. She not only mocked - she TRASHED community organizers in her speech before the Republican National Convention. Waaaahhh!
Oh, please. The GOP vice presidential nominee did no such thing. If she did, then the Barack Obama campaign has been just as mean, just as nasty in trashing small-town mayors. Should all the Republicans start crying as well? Do Democrats think the mayors who go to work each day in cities of less than 10,000 people are worthless?
Of course not. The point, which the citizens of Obamistan fail to grasp, or perhaps don’t want to grasp, is that Palin’s comment about community organizers was in response to constant criticism of her - that as a former small-town mayor and now governor of a sparsely populated state, she isn’t qualified to be a heartbeat from the presidency.
That’s a fair issue for Democrats to raise. But it is equally fair for her to ask if a community organizer who then spent a couple of years in the U.S. Senate is qualified not just to be a heartbeat away, but actually to be president. Her point is that her experience compares rather favorably to his.
It’s not about whether community organizing is good or bad. That ought to be obvious. The fact that it apparently isn’t ought to embarrass the Obama campaign.

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  • jacrlsn
    Mr. Amerding, It won't be long before the liberal bell-ringers start their chorus. It is their way apparently to think they can throw all the barbs they want, but they refuse to accept anyone's right to throw any back. They are the first to call names (and avoid facts) but anyone who calls names back are "Bushies" or "Neo=cons"
    I've said it before but God bless us all everyone.
  • JasonW
    Both sides are firing. Both sides are taking it and firing back.

    The only ones doing the whining are half-baked commentators and bloggers who can't come up with some real substance.

    The last two Soapbox (the semimonthly-at-best blog that newspaper promos encourage us to read daily) blog posts were nothing but whining. Not even accurate whining - the August 27 "Ooops, she said it again …" post whined about how partisan Hillary Clinton's speech was at her party's national convention -- sounding very much like complaining about snow at a ski tournament -- and how that type of speech would not be tolerated by the Republicans. (Psst, anyone listen to the RNC speeches?)

    At least Jim Carlson was first in line as usual to give his "Amen, Brother!" praise.
  • jacrlsn
    Thank you Jason for confirming what i said in my first post on this statement. Wow didn't take you long to throw the personal arrow.
  • bilge rat
    What I find interesting is the speculation on whether or not Mrs. Palin SHOULD be the vp nominee because she is the mother of five children.

    For years women have been told "you can have it all" from N.O.W. and other feminist organizations. The hypocrisy of the left only proves "you can only have it all" if you're a democrat or liberal.

    If you're a conservative woman, you're called names and accused of abandoning your children for the sake of your career.

    I know this has been mentioned around other media outlets, but why is this question never asked of any male candidates? Why is no one asking Michelle or Barack Obama to stay home and raise their kids? Mrs. Obama works, full time, as a "diversity coordinator" for a large hospital in Chicago, if I'm not mistaken. Unless she's working out of her home, then she is just as guilty of putting her career in front of her family and children.
    Mrs. Obama is portrayed by the media as a stylish, well-spoken, educated woman who has it all. Yet Mrs. Palin is being projected as a lax parent, uneducated, unqualified redneck. If you don't believe me, or feel that I'm "whining" check out the blatant smear on Mrs. Palin versus the unadulated fawning over Mrs. Obama issued by the rag, US magazine...

    No media bias there /sarc off/
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