Community Organizers Beg to Differ
Yesterday, Republicans, seemingly at once, started attacking Barack Obama's experience as a community organizer.
"What in God's name is a community organizer?" asked George Pataki at a breakfast.
"What do they do?" Giuliani implored during his speech last night.
And Sarah Palin, in her enthusiastic address, said, "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities."
So community organizers are now organizing themselves.
John Raskin of the West Side of Manhattan, founder of Community Organizers of America, has already launched a Web site (Community Organizers Fight Back) demanding that Palin apologize.
Of course, they're not exactly the target demographic for Republicans, especially in New York.
When he heard about the Web site, one Republican at the Marriott Hotel in Minneapolis, where the New York delegation is staying, jokingly slammed his hand on a wooden table and said, "Damn! We lost the West Side."
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