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5th September 2008 Charles J. Brown
09:45 am

A Short List


The best quote of yesterday, perhaps of the entire convention season, came from a commenter on the Mudflats blog:

Jesus was a Community Organizer, and Pontius Pilate was a Governor.”

That got me thinking.  Who else was a community organizer?  Here’s a short list:

  • Mother Theresa (who got mentioned by the McCains more often than George W. Bush did)
  • Martin Luther King (who was featured in a RNC video earlier in the day)
  • Jane Addams (who campaigned in 1912 for Teddy Roosevelt, John McCain’s hero)
  • Abraham Lincoln
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Mahatma Gandhi
  • Vaclav Havel
  • The Dalai Lama
  • Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Thomas Paine
  • Mike Huckabee (yes, even Mike Huckabee — he was a church pastor)

Oh!  I forgot one!

  • Sarah Palin (member of the PTA)

See, here’s the thing, Governor Palin.  Anyone who organizes in the community — whether they are organizing poor people or moose hunters, crime victims or gun owners, is a community organizer.

You might want to take a few minutes and read de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America:

There is only one nation on the earth where use is made each day of the unlimited liberty to form associations. . . . This same nation is the only one in the world whose citizens have conceived of making constant use of the right of association in civil life and have succeeded in procuring for themselves in this manner all the goods that civilization can offer.

Or was this one of the books you had banned from Wasilla’s library?

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  1. 1 On September 5th, 2008, Heretic said:

    I have no idea why the GOP decided to blast community organizers. We are, after all the party of small government, and we pretty much count on community organizers to pick up where government leaves off. Kind of a shotgun where a sniper rifle would’ve been more appropriate. Doesn’t change Obama’s light executive resume, though.

    The quote at the top raises another question for me: if Obama is Jesus in this metaphor (setting aside the continued messianic delusions of grandeur from the Obama camp), does that mean Biden will be President by Good Friday? And what happens come Easter? What does the 25th Amendment have to say about succession in the case of Presidential resurrection?

  2. 2 On September 6th, 2008, Midwest McGarry said:

    The Dems could really use this “community organizer” thing as a way to rally the base.

    “In case you were wondering, ‘I guess a small-town mayor is sorta like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities,’ is when I decided to kick your ass.”

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0745668/quotes (I know, deduct 5 points for Sorkinatorium violation.)

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