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.
