When she first made the speech, I thought it was just one of her many cheap shots at Barack Obama. But then, in their first campaign stop after the convention, in Cedarburg, WI, she made the same attack again.
It dawned on me that this isn't about Obama at all. This is about Palin. She really does hate community organizers. The question then was: Why?
Well, it is because it was community organizers that have repeated thwarted her attempts to be the petty tyrant she wants to be.
When she first took office as Mayor of Wasilla, she tried to get some books censored. When the town librarian absolutely refused, Palin tried to fire her, claiming it was some sort of loyalty test.
From Anne Kilkenney, who's email is becoming the hottest thing in the Intertubes:
While Sarah was Mayor of Wasilla she tried to fire our highly respected City Librarian because the Librarian refused to consider removing from the library some books that Sarah wanted removed. City residents rallied to the defense of the City Librarian and against Palin’s attempt at out-and-out censorship, so Palin backed down and withdrew her termination letter. People who fought her attempt to oust the Librarian are on her enemies list to this day.
In other words, the community got organized, and made Palin back down.
Even before she became governor, and started up the whole Troopergate issue, she tried to get her ex-brother-in-law, Mike Wooten, fired. The allegations against Wooten were investigated and all but one were found to be unsubstantiated. For the one infraction that Wooten was found to have committed, he was suspended for ten days. The union (another form of a community organization) fought the the suspension and had it reduced to five days.
Now this same union has filed an ethics complaint against Palin, accusing her of gaining access herself or for her aides, to go through confidential files:
"It's apparent to us that the governor or someone on her staff had direct access
to his personnel file, as well as his workers' comp file, and those are
protected," said John Cyr, executive director of the Alaska Public Safety
Employees Association.
This, of course, only makes it more difficult for her to become the Vice-President.
So, you see, Sarah Palin really hates community organizers. They keep holding her responsible to follow the law, and they keep thwarting her attempts to become Empress.
The fine folks at One Wisconsin Now have put together an on-line letter to be sent to the McCain-Palin campaign, demanding that they issue an apology for her smears against people that are trying to help their communities. I encourage everyone to sign it.
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There's a lot to hate about community organizers. After all, they're nothing but a bunch of sanctimonious do-gooders!
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C, your credibility is diminishing.
ReplyDeleteDad-
ReplyDeleteYou should be upset as well. The Church has long been noted for organizing communities, not only for religous purposes, but for social services, cleaning up neighborhoods, etc.
But no matter how much my credibility may go down, it can never sink as low as Palin's or McCain's.
You know of course this book banning business has been debunked, right? :)
ReplyDeleteKate,
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that has been debunked was that she had a specific list. The fact that she asked the librarian about censuring the books has been well documented.
I like your avatar, BTW.
She asked, for reasons I've yet to find out. But asking for information and doing aren't really the same thing, are they?
ReplyDeleteThanks! That really IS me. LMAO
I highly doubt that she was just making small talk.
ReplyDeleteGiven the way she tries to squelch the rights of others, I highly doubt that she was asking to protect the First Amendment.