ST. PAUL - Faith-based community organizers have a message for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin: they have “actual responsibilities” thank you very much.
In a pointed barb aimed at Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, John McCain’s running mate on the Republican ticket said her experiences as a small town mayor in Alaska were far more taxing than that of a community organizer.
Obama was a community organizer in Chicago two decades ago.
“A small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities,” the Alaska governor told the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night in a rousing speech peppered with jabs at Obama.
“Contrary to Palin’s disparaging remarks, organizers have major responsibilities for creating policy changes. Feeding the hungry and housing the homeless are clearly responsibilities of people of faith. We do that by providing food and shelter and more importantly, by organizing to address the causes of injustice and inequity which lead to hunger and homelessness,” said Kim Bobo, Executive Director of Interfaith Worker Justice, a congregation-based community organization in Chicago.
Bobo was quoted in a statement issued by several faith-based community organizations that bristled at the remarks by Palin, who has revved up other people of faith — the conservative Christians who comprise the Republican Party’s key base.
(Photo credit: REUTERS/Rick Wilking, Sept. 3, 2008, USA)
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I guess Obama would have more credibility with Palin if he went the same path as her, via Beauty Pageants.
- Posted by Jim GreenWhat a mean spirited sarcastic woman.
I am a Social Worker and a conservative republican. Never did I get a negative feeling of what she said. She was dynamic, I am thinking that no matter what she says some people will find fault to discredit her.
Go McCain and Palin
- Posted by KGRIT ALL BOILS DOWN TO WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO SLEEP IN THE ” LINCOLN BEDROOM ” A BUNCH OF BIG DONORS AS WAS FROM CHINA AND SAUDI’S AND THE HOLLYWOOD GANG,AS PER SLICK WILLIE OR FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THE PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT..
- Posted by D-27YOU KNOW IF BARRY GETS IN, THE FIRST CREW TO BE INVITED WILL BE, GEORGE SOROS,WARREN BUFFETT, OPRAH, AND THE REST OF THE BIG DONORS. GEORGIE BOY I DON’T BELIEVE INVITED ANY ONE, HIS GANG SLEPT ON THE RANCH IN TEXAS……..
Jesus was a communtiy organizer and Pontius Pilot was a governor…enough said.
grasping at straws ofr the low information voter…A little old goat anf Cheney with a beehive!!!
- Posted by DocbSarah Palin is a joke. It has nothing to do with her party affiliation. She is just a self centered person. It’s amazes me how some people will vote Republican even when a monkey put an (R) by his or her name. We need to contact every tv station in Ohio, Florida, Virginia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Georgia to get them to do a story about the importance of community organizers. Vote in November!
- Posted by LLarry