Community Organizers pissed about Palin's comments

Following Disparaging Comments at RNC, Community Organizers Respond to Republican Attacks on Their Profession

During their speeches at last weeks RNC, both vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin and former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani mocked Sen. Barack Obamas background as a community organizer. We speak to John Raskin, one of the founders of the newly formed Community Organizers of America. [includes rush transcript]

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[lenaw70]

The crowd look like a bunch of Stefford wifes and brain washed fools. I didnt realize sheep can laugh.

[IWantDemocracyNow]

good point!!

[desertgrrrl76]

one reason why i don't vote republican is evident by many of the racist and ignorant comments left by certain people on youtube.

[silkyang]

Community organizers exist to help represent people with needs that aren't being met. Maybe the concept of representing "people with needs" is just too foriegn for the GOP to grasp.

[Libsdontcareee]

I A Liberal expects Government to give them something because they were lazy, and wants what is to be given to them to be taken away from a hard working American. End of story. I am a Black man, and I hate being called African American, I am a Black American.

[Libsdontcareee]

I had to watch this video THREE times because I feel asleep. It's really a worthless video. Community organizing is for weak people who are control/power hungry for something they have no value in society to earn on their OWN, therefore, they are liberal, a conservative does not care what anyone else does with their life in any way shape or form......and this is a problem today. Because Republicans still want to control some aspect of your life, whereas, a true conservative is Libertarian.

[Libsdontcareee]

Not really conservative, just liberal, as in, they wanted to control OTHERS. That is why they wanted to remain in the south separate from the Union...so they could own and control slaves, even though some slaves escaped for better work, but returned due to the exceptional treatment they received.

However, you have done your history lesson and are subjectively accurate

[sillycandie007]

i listen to her talk about obama bad ok ,,,but not once did she say how she is going to help america not once an thats why they lost

[Juggernauticali]

The Democratic party used to be the party of southern conservatives. Learn your history.

[AtlasShruggery]

Here's a quote from Lee Atwater, political strategist for Reagan:

"You start out in 1954 by saying, 'Nigger, nigger, nigger.' By 1968 you can't say 'nigger' - that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now that you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is that blacks get hurt worse than whites."

Classic Republican.

[AtlasShruggery]

No one pandered to the racists like Ronald Reagan. Have you forgotten how Reagan opposed the Civil Rights Act? Have you forgotten Reagan's "I believe in state's rights" speech to the White's Only crowd in Philadelphia Mississippi where the civil rights workers were murdered? Have you forgotten how Reagan supported the racist apartheid government of South Africa?

[heyazzhole]

That may be so but Reagan did not endorse the klan as the democratic oarty edoresed the KLAN, Like shall we say Senator byrd

[AtlasShruggery]

Uh, the KKK endorsed Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984. Sounds like you could use a little history lesson yourself.