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Segami

(14,923 posts)
9. Honest work it is....but how does being a WeinerMobile driver prepare you for V.P.?
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:32 PM
Aug 2012

Whats good for the goose is also good for the gander. Back in 2008, Republicans mocked Obama's ' community organizer ' work experience before entering Law school.



September 4th 2008


ST. PAUL — The biggest punch line so far at this Republican convention in St. Paul: “community organizer.”

Why did these two words suddenly become the zinger of the night at the convention?

The credit or blame for launching the “community organizer” mock-fest goes to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani who told the convention Wednesday night, “You have a resume from a gifted man with an Ivy League education. He worked as a — communityorganizer.”

He paused and then said, “What?” as if to express befuddlement at that job title.

Giuliani had eloquent body language — a dismissive half-shrug — as he said the words, “community organizer.”

Immediately the delegates on the convention floor burst into laughter and guffaws.

GOP vice presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin also poked fun at Obama’s work as a community organizer, contrasting it with her own work as a mayor.


Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said delegates reacted with laugher to the phrase “probably because a lot of folks don’t have much of an idea of what a ‘community organizer’ just might be.”

And in any event, Kyl said, Republicans don’t see “how it might prepare you to be president of the United States.”


'Whatever that exactly means'

Kyl added, “All life experiences shape your judgment and your ability to respond to crisis. So I don’t denigrate his law experience. He was primarily a lawyer while he was, quote, ‘organizing the community’ — whatever that exactly means.”

Kyl was partly wrong: Obama worked in Chicago as an organizer before he went to law school. He also did some organizing after he returned to Chicago after getting a law degree from Harvard.



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26547877/ns/politics-decision_08/t/community-organizer-becomes-punch-line/

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Tanuki

(16,447 posts)
5. Did you know that former weinermobile drivers
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:11 PM
Aug 2012

are entitled to be driven to their wedding reception in the weinermobile? I wonder if Ry-ayn and his heiress wife took them up on it?

http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2011/02/14/nothing-says-i-love-you-quite-like-a-wiener/

SirRevolutionary

(579 posts)
7. A meat managing, weiner mobile chauffeur for the Munster family driving around
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 01:13 PM
Aug 2012

handing out hot dogs

leveymg

(36,418 posts)
12. Only turns right. I swear, it's the same offal stuff they press into their packaged bologna.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:00 PM
Aug 2012

Bismarck said you don't want to see what goes into it. How far-right!

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
13. Sliding weiners into buns
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 02:17 PM
Aug 2012

Now I understand Mitt's choosing him! Butt wait - there's more! Just LOOK at that weiner-mobile. There's the "dog" - riding atop the "vehicle"! What better qualifications than that???

TrollBuster9090

(6,128 posts)
14. Hey, don't knock his only private sector experience.
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 03:26 PM
Aug 2012

It's basically the only honest work he ever did. He's spent the rest of his life in Washington either writing speeches, writing destructive legislation, or jerking off to Ayn Rand fan fiction.

 

BanTheGOP

(1,068 posts)
16. No, THIS is what happened
Mon Aug 13, 2012, 06:59 PM
Aug 2012

...off the cliff he goes...hopefully it was a righteous Granny who ran him off THIS cliff...

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