Time after time tonight, I heard these Republicans belittling the work of the community organizer.
9iu11ani did it, Palin did it (sneeringly).
Let me tell you something...
If you think going into a disadvantaged community and working your ass off to get people working together toward a common goal in the face of a great deal of adversity and usually ending up in disappointment, you are only demonstrating your ignorance of what it takes to do that kind of work.
It's a hell of a lot more involved than being the mayor of a town of 6,000 people, even if you're trying to fire your librarian for not banning the books you want banned.
It's a hell of a lot more involved than running Ted Stevens' 527 fundraising group.
It's a hell of a lot more difficult than bringing together people who scarcely have the means to take care of their basic necessities from day to day to demand equitable treatment from a government that doesn't give a damn about them.
It's a hell of a lot more difficult than being a community divider.
So before you decide that the work of a community organizer is worthy of your pathetic, sneering derision, stick your hand up and volunteer for a week. Then remember that Barack Obama, a man with the wherewithall to go and do anything in the world he wanted to do with his magna cum laude law degree from the most respected law school on the planet, chose to go and become a community organizer in one of the largest, most disadvantaged neighborhoods in America.
Yes, Mayor 9/11, Obama has run something: The most honest, upright and successful campaign in modern politics and the Democratic Party, which is about to kick your ass from here to November.