Strollerderby

When you've got no new policy changes to speak of, all you can do is attack the other guy...

I love this part: “Community organizers work in neighborhoods that have been hit hardest by the failing economy,” said John Raskin, founder of Community Organizers of America and a community organizer on the West Side of Manhattan.  “The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we’re trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed.  Maybe if everyone had more houses than they can count, we wouldn’t need community organizers.  But I work with people who are getting evicted from their only home.  If John McCain and the Republicans understood that, maybe they wouldn’t be so quick to make fun of community organizers like me.”

www.crooksandliars.com/.../palin-was-director-of-stevens-527-group

But she is a reformer.  Oh, well, maybe not.  She and Ted Stevens (soon to be Inmate # 25448221) worked together for years until 2006.  Here is some info and a nice commercial he made with her in 2006.  They are like BFF!  

Of course she wasn't saying he did nothing. It's Obama who'se trying to say he has more "experiance" than she does - she was merely saying that Community Organizers and being mayor etc....isn't the same.

I'd love to read the Babble articles/comments if the shoe was on the other foot.

I LOVE Babble with all my heart but the over the top liberal-ness is sickening.

BTW I'm a Libertarian

Well said Erin - I totally agree - I don't consider myself a republican or democrat but the liberals on this site are really scary!  

Erin and Christina,

Obama hasn't made any claims to having more experience than Sarah Palin.....!! He's taken the high road where Palin/McSame/Guliani have not!

I'm an Independent and I don't find the Liberals on here to be scary at all. The Conservatives scare me much more, because even though it's 2008 there are some who are still pushing anti-abortion agendas and creationism. That scares me a lot. I'm a tax payer and I don't want my children being taught that dinosaurs and humans roamed the earth together.

I'd call some of the opinions here more progressive than liberal. And honestly, I'd say the progressive voices here (in terms of numbers) are about equal to the conservative.

My feeling is that the Babble writers tend to be much more liberal/progressive, so we're hearing much more criticism of McCain/Palin than we ever have of Obama/Biden.  I think you're right, PoliticalDad, that the commenters are about even.  Frankly, I agree with Erin and Christine, not on the scary part, but just on the part that I don't come here to read politics, and I'm growing a little tired of this stuff crowding out what I do come for- parenting and pregnancy stories.

It doesn't escape me that I'm commenting on a "Political Nanny" post, so at that point, my criticism is a little misplaced.  But there seem to be so many more lately.  I usually skip Political Nanny, and lately I've been skipping most Palin posts, and it seems like I just keep scrolling.

I was appalled when I heard the crowd's loud laughter as Giuliani/Palin insulted community organizers.  As someone with a social work background, I was highly offended.  If Barack had been a school teacher (a profession equally as respectable and tough and underpaid as a community organizer), I don't think they would have gotten such a belly laugh.  Barack could have taken his big fancy law degree and gone out and made loads of money right out of school.  Instead he decided to help the people that truly needed a voice.  Wow, let's throw the man (and the entire community organizing profession) under the bus for that--how dare he waste his time with that silly little job?  

What bothered me (aside from Palin's totally cruel mocking of community organizers) was her factual inaccuracies.  She said that while she was Mayor of Wasilla and actually doing something, Obama was doing community organizing.  This isn't true.  When Obama was community organizing (a mere 3 years out of college), Palin was a sportscaster.  When Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Obama was in the Illinois state legislature.  She's not comparing apples to apples.