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From kos: Educating the GOP about Community Organizers
Educating the GOP: A Photo History of Community Organizers
by BonnieSchlitz
Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 10:13:06 AM PDT
(emphases mine)

After watching the malicious speeches last night mocking Senator Obama, and by proxy, cynically attacking all of us who support our local communities, I thought it would be prudent to educate the Republican Party on the historical role of community organizers. For a quick reminder, let's recap Giuliani's snark:

"He worked as a community organizer. (Laughter) What?...Barack Obama has never led anything, nothing, nada."

And Palin's vacuous follow-up:

"This world of threats and dangers, it's not just a community and it doesn't just need an organizer."(Laughter.)

That these bastions of the GOP would denigrate the importance of community organizers on the same night their party nominates its first female vice presidential candidate shows an utter disrespect for the people of this country and a laughable ignorance of the power we wield. This is what community organizers do...

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/4/105623/5197/586/586233
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