Tag: RNC

And also what they said . . .

Some responses to Palin & Giuliani’s bashing community organizers that I felt compelled to share.

From the man himself.

And I really like her video.

My only critique would be that her graphic listing community organizers goes by too quickly.  You can hardly see that Jesus Christ leads the list.

I also really dig this post from Ding on Bitch Ph.D.

Community Organizing: Not a Frakkin’ Tea Party

 

Palin said:

“A small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities”

And a community organizer I respect very much once said:

“[T]here never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.”

-Susan B. Anthony

It’s a classic case of biting the hand that feeds you.  Without the work of community organizers, a woman like Palin would never be able to vote, let alone run for the second highest office in the land, and some day they highest.   And yet, Palin would have you believe that Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Staton, Martin Luther King, Jr., and other community organizers do not have any responsibilities.   I suppose in once sense they don’t, other than the responsibility that most of us have to make our lot and the lot of our fellows better.   The question is: Does it make a person more qualified to govern when they have been elected to lead than if they have taken it upon themselves to lead?   I think that many community organizers have done as much or as little for this country and its citizens than many elected officials.   To be honest, I’m not well versed on Obama’s record as a community organizer, and I’m not suggesting that he has is on par with MLK, Jr. or the suffragists.   I think that remains to be seen.   My point is, if you want to attack his record, then attack his record.   Don’t bash community organizers in general.

Now I feel like I’ve beaten this topic to death.  

 

I would like to post something on McCain’s speech tonight, but honestly, I tried to watch it, and I fell asleep.  Then I tried to watch the replay, and it just wasn’t . . . inspiring, in any sense of the word.   It was just bland. I mean, it certainly didn’t change my mind, as if it stood a chance.   It didn’t even boil my blood.  It didn’t do anything for me at all.

What He Said . . .

I love Jay Smooth. (“Well then why don’t you marry him?”)

I wish.

This guy is one of the smartest people on the web. I subscribe to his blog, and I love it, because a lot of his subject matter is outside of my normal sphere of experience and knowledge. There’s no way I could know as much about hip hop as this man does. I do appreciate a lot of it, though, and it’s good to hear a critique of it from someone who is more intimately aware of it than I am. I have unfortunately not been exposed to as much of it, and to be honest, have been put off by a lot of it. I should get back into it. . . maybe I’ll do that. Anyway. . .

I hope he never gives in to his “little hater” and keeps posting many more v-blogs.

And I hope I get to make out with him some day. Smarts are sexy.

Just sayin’.

Update: I just was going back and re-reading this post, and I realized that I went off on a tangent, and forgot to even mention how much I agree with what he’s saying about the RNC.  He’s spot on, as far as I can tell.

So, Here’s What I Don’t Get

I’m watching a little bit of the Republican National Convention.  I know, I know, I know.  You’re asking why I would want to torture myself like that.   I just want to see what they have to say.

And what they have to say is pretty exasperating.  I’ve yet to hear any one suggestion about why anyone should vote for McCain.   All they have to say is what’s supposedly wrong with Obama.  All they do is bash and bash and bash.  The only reason to vote for McCain is to vote against Obama.

Why so defensive, Republicans?

Because you ought to be.   Because I think that you know that McCain is a hard sell to the American public.  And so is Palin.  

Side note – I can’t believe that Giuliani just tried to bring up the Republicans’ role in ending slavery, while earlier in this speech, he said something that sounded exceptionally racist (thanks Jay Smooth) about “Islamic Terrorists.”   What about the Catholic Terrorists?   What about the just plain psychotic terrorists?   What about the Neo-Nazi White Supremacist Terrorists?   Not a problem?   Don’t need to protect Americans from those?   Just the Muslims, huh?

Anyway, where was I?  Oh yeah, the hard sell.  Here’s the thing, the Republicans have got to know that the American public is tired of their shit.  Tired of their national debt, which is the lead cause of our faltering economy.   The reason our young people are being sent to die in a war that does not have a damn thing to do with the terrorists who have attacked Americans in our land.   

McCain would rather lose the election than lose a war, and that’s just what he’s going to do.   Because to “stay the course” is to ignore the will of the American people, who have spoken, and who have said, “Enough is enough!”   He’s disrespectful of democracy, just like Bush, and for that reason he should not, and FSM willing, will not be elected.

Just Sayin’.