To me, the craziest thing is this: they actually meant to do it.
Guiliani paused after pointing out Obama had worked as a community organizer, sensing that it was going to be a big laugh line for him (it was). And Palin came prepared with some zingers predicated specifically on Obama's community organizer past. So it's pretty obvious there was intent behind all those "community organizer" attacks at the RNC last night. They thought it all through very carefully.
The question is, why would they be so stupid? What the hell were they thinking?
Seriously, help me out here. I don't know, maybe they're hoping to use it as a pile-on for the "exotic" meme? (why didn't he get a real job like normal people have?) Or equating it with radical lefty politics? (community and communism share a lot of letters, folks!)
Okay, sure, if you ask a typical person what a community organizer does, maybe they wouldn't know exactly. But the vast majority of people would loosely define it as "someone who works in poor communities." And most people, even, I dare say, many Republicans, would find the idea of helping poor people pretty noble.
So why, in hard economic times, would you openly mock somebody for working to help people in hard economic times? And then welcome every TV camera in the country in to watch your delegates laugh hysterically at the very thought of someone helping poor people? Could you possibly come up with a way to make yourself seem more out of touch?
Perhaps tomorrow they'll show video of John McCain physically evicting people from their foreclosed home. That'd about the only way they're going to top this one.
Somebody needs to explain the strategy behind this to me. Really, explain it to me like I'm three years old. 'Cause I just don't get it.