I guess breing a failure at every business venture you've ever been associated with is considered "experience" enough to get elected... twice.

remind me again what McCain's "executive experience" is?

Am I losing my mind here?

The headline claims "No one is mocking community organizers in church basements," and then goes on to mock a community organizer that organized communities in church basements in addition to mocking the people who had the gall to show up.

Know when to shut the f*ck up. Please.

Barnacles!: remind me again what McCain's "executive experience" is?

It's a private matter. Can't the press just leave him alone?

Oh - It's Malkin. Enough said.

Barnacles!
remind me again what McCain's "executive experience" is?

Sweet.

Apparently only governors are presidential-caliber.
That's working out for us so well at present...

Even Obama doesn't count his 3 years as a community organizer as executive experience. He did it right out of college & went on to become a lawyer before the senate. It's only the Republicans who are dredging this up and keep shooting themselves in the foot every time they do.

Great way to connect with middle America: "If you're a community organizer, your work isn't worth squat".

/Community organizer who is pissed off to no end that the Republicans keep bashing all of my efforts.

All you haters can take your hating asses to the communities he organized, talk to the people he helped, look at the results he achieved. Look at his record running the Chicago Annenburg Challenge. Sure "community organizer" sounds like a nonsense, feelgood kind of hobbyjobby thing, but it provides results we can measure, achievements we can point to...doesn't it?

Here, lemme help: "Let me be perfectly clear: He was organizing BLACK people. Not white people. BLACK people. Organizing them. And you know what happens then, right?"

(he was also doing it right out of HARVARD law school. Not Messiah U. or Oral Roberts or Bob Jones.)

He doesn't consider it executive experience.

He said so again yesterday when he was asked a bunch of questions about the RNC.

But sure, keep focusing on the 3 year job he had out of college, because that's what he is basing his campaign on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NBv88rG608

well, when Obama was a community organizer, Palin was beginning her career as a fisher and a sports announcer. so why don't Republicans tell us how that gives her the qualifications to be vice president?

Um, he never claimed it was executive experience... If you're just going to make sh*t up, the "secret Muslim" and "anti-Christ" stuff is much more entertaining.

Ha! I knew this would come back to bite them. Once the echo chamber gets involved, you know the story has traction.

/Wouldn't want my daughter marrying one of those community organizers. People might talk.

"What deserves derision is "community organizing" that relies on a community of homeless people and ex-cons to organize for the purpose of registering dead people to vote, shaking down corporations and using the race card as a bludgeon."

Yeah, sure thing Madame Maglalang. You are really helping your own cause here.

Jon Stewart summed this up neatly last night.


So to everyone out there in your communities trying to make a difference? %#$% you. 1000 points of bull%$#@.

So... it's not that Community Organizers are a joke, except when it's your opponent?

Sorry. Hittable is not mutually exclusive from farking nuts.

/would hit that with the fist of an angry god
/would then ACTUALLY hit that with the fist of an angry god

depmode98: well, when Obama was a community organizer, Palin was beginning her career as a fisher and a sports announcer. so why don't Republicans tell us how that gives her the qualifications to be vice president?

BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE!

If only he had run the PTA instead.

What deserves derision is "community organizing" that relies on a community of homeless people and ex-cons to organize for the purpose of registering dead people to vote, shaking down corporations and using the race card as a bludgeon.

I hate this lady so much.

God the Republicans are desperate to rephrase this election. As it stands it's "Needed Change" versus "Change = Not Doing Anything New"

The Republicans want to change it into "Change is Bad" versus "Experience is the Only Metric for Successful Leadership"

/I like to capitalize the first letters of bigger words when making slogans
//slashy

I love the quip from Palin about how Mayor is being a community organizer with responsibilities. Are you sure you want to drag your mayoral credentials into this? The whole library censorship thing, that had the bulk of Wasilla backing the woman you tried to have fired? Or the fact that Wasilla is now deep in debt due to your job as mayor?

I like the whole linking to Real Clear Politics so it doesn't look like you're actually linking Michelle Malkin thing.

Classy.

This just in, Michelle Malkin's funny bone is broken.

That is all.

DIAF, Michelle.

Obama/Biden - Change you can believe in.

McCain/Palin - Change your colostomy bag and/or tampon.

Prospero424: I like the whole linking to Real Clear Politics so it doesn't look like you're actually linking Michelle Malkin thing.

Classy.

haha i know whats up with that?

rabble-rouser? heavens to betsy

I guess when people pay taxes, they should not organize when they feel they are not getting the ROI they think they need.

Oh, and Obama was having his community organization meetings in church basements, so suck it.

Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer for three years from June 1985 to May 1988 as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes.

So....

It's not ONLY Community Organizers, but Religious Community Organizers that are a joke.


*Sources, taken from Wikipedia's so please do that whole academic peer review thing that the conservative base thinks makes people into untrustworthy douchebags.
/Chassie, Karen (ed.) (2007). Who's Who in America, 2008. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who, p. 3468. ISBN 9780837970110. Retrieved on 2008-06-06.
/Secter, Bob; McCormick, John (2007-03-30). "Portrait of a pragmatist", Chicago Tribune, p. 1. Retrieved on 2008-06-06. Lizza, Ryan (2007-03-19). "The Agitator: Barack Obama's Unlikely Political Education" (alternate link), New Republic. Retrieved on 2008-04-13. Obama (1995), pp. 140-295; Mendell (2007), pp. 63-83.

mekki: This just in, Michelle Malkin's funny bone is broken.

That is all.

She's never had a funny bone. She's nothing more than an Anne Coulter wanna-be who's actually female.

OlafTheBent: I guess breing a failure at every business venture you've ever been associated with is considered "experience" enough to get elected... twice.

According to Barack Obama, it's running for President, twice.

soy_bomb: OlafTheBent: I guess breing a failure at every business venture you've ever been associated with is considered "experience" enough to get elected... twice.

According to Barack Obama, it's running for President, twice.

Yep, that was dumb of him to say that. What "executive experience" has McCain had?

Dinki: Oh - It's Malkin. Enough said.

Not quite enough. No one had posted this yet:

fenrael23: (^)

I swear, that just went up $10 AFTER the page loaded. Congrats.

Barnacles!: remind me again what McCain's "executive experience" is?

POW.

Why do you hate our Troops?

Quick somebody say that Jesus was an organizer and Pontius was a governor!

Zing! Of course, that didn't end too well for Jesus, but hey. Zing!

" I guess a small-town mayor if sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."

Hey, it was over the top, but a good line. Obama and Carville had both been on TV the day before disparaging the fact that she was a small town mayor. It was a fair reply. Now, the Malkins of the world are going to ruin it for Palin by harping on community organizer angle, thereby diminishing the "zing," as it were.

But seriously, I've seen this Jesus/Pontius Pilate line a thousand times in the last few days. Did Kos release a memo?

Dorf11: fenrael23: (^)

I swear, that just went up $10 AFTER the page loaded. Congrats.

It sure did! Cool!

GOBAMA '08!!!!

/Silence the GOP Lies!

PruneTracy: God the Republicans are desperate to rephrase this election. As it stands it's "Needed Change" versus "Change = Not Doing Anything New"

PC LOAD LETTER: Yep, that was dumb of him to say that. What "executive experience" has McCain had?

plenty.

matt2891: I love the quip from Palin about how Mayor is being a community organizer with responsibilities. Are you sure you want to drag your mayoral credentials into this? The whole library censorship thing, that had the bulk of Wasilla backing the woman you tried to have fired? Or the fact that Wasilla is now deep in debt due to your job as mayor?


From the voter agreed upon bond issuance to pay for the new sports complex? Why do you hate our infrastructure?

The Republicans have shown this week that literally anything is open to partisan attack. Virtue and vice are no longer based on morality but rather ideology.

Saul Alinsky (new window)
Some of Alinsky's former students hired Barack Obama to a $13,000 a year job as a "community organizer" in South Chicago. There is a HUGE difference between volunteering to help your community and being paid to stir things up by a group of communists. He was hired to do it.. he was in no way a volunteer... I am willing to be had it been a volunteer position he would have baulked at it.

i too, think that it would be tough for mccain to claim that a voter registration drive aimed octogenarians would count as executive experience. luckily, obama didn't claim that this was 'executive' work in the first place. regardless of whether you value the work, as 'executive' experience, it was pretty successful; they registered quite a few voters.

Obama and Biden should rail on her job that she had for the first 3 years out of college.

PC LOAD LETTER: I guess when people pay taxes, they should not organize when they feel they are not getting the ROI they think they need.

Something tells me that that the community Obama organized was more focused on sopping up other people's gravy than spreading their own.

atomsmoosher: " I guess a small-town mayor if sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities."

Hey, it was over the top, but a good line. Obama and Carville had both been on TV the day before disparaging the fact that she was a small town mayor. It was a fair reply.

Maybe it would have made sense if he was a community organizer 6 years ago, when she was still a small-town mayor. But this was 18+ years ago, when she was pretty much still in college(s). She might as well have made fun of him for working at Baskin-Robbins in high school.

Xerxes99: Some of Alinsky's former students hired Barack Obama to a $13,000 a year job as a "community organizer" in South Chicago. There is a HUGE difference between volunteering to help your community and being paid to stir things up by a group of communists. He was hired to do it.. he was in no way a volunteer... I am willing to be had it been a volunteer position he would have baulked at it.

Oh, I see. So he gave up a six-figure salary for $13k. That changes everything. Fark you Obama!

All it means is that he knows and cares about the poorest of the poor. It's experience in seeing what needs to happen and who really needs help.