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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