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Originally Posted by GeekyPenguin
Right-to-Life Wisconsin. I had several friends do it in college. They were organizing people to picket and to sign petitions to ban abortion everywhere all the time for any reason ever.
If the RNC wants to start making fun of job titles I don't think it's going to end well for them given some of the people they run in state races. I thought the mockery of community organizers was absurd. Several people that I graduated law school with are now working in a very similar capacity to what Obama did. It's not an easy job or a well paying one, but it's certainly an important one.
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No doubt community organizers are important, but again, I think small town mayor is at least comparable. Maybe I missed a lot of dismissal of community organizers even before that.
But you know, this is just partisan BS. Community Organizers probably skew heavily Democratic and it's not a big risk for the GOP to make fun. It'd be the same with Democrats talking about corporate fat cats. It's not going to really make your own base mad.
Personally, I doubt there was anyone in American who said, “I was all about John McCain and the Republican party, but darn it, they're making fun of community organizers.”
And I doubt any Democratic mayors of small towns switched parties when Palin's experience was minimized either.
As Michelle Obama might say, "this conversation isn't helping my kids." I'm happy to have it with you, but I don't think it matters much.
And even as someone who wants to see abortion restricted, I'm usually creeped out by Right to Life. I think they frequently do a lot to set back the cause more than they help it. ETA: okay, maybe I've overstating here about R to L in particular. But a lot of pro-life groups will go through periods of behavior when their own conduct is far more off putting than it is effective.