“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.”

Fuck you for being willfully, patronizingly ignorant of the great history of community organizing in America: the legacies of Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Martin Luther King Jr., Jane Addams, Cesar Chavez, Uriah Smith Stevens, William Lloyd Garrison, Samuel Gompers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Dolores Huerta, Dorothy Day, Harvey Milk, Frederick Douglass, Frank Little, Mother Jones, Saul Alinsky, Fred Ross, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, Ginger Goodwin, Sojourner Truth, Asa Philip Randolph, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, the American Friends Service Committee, the PTA, the AFL-CIO, and every American citizen who has cared enough about a problem to seek out solution on a grassroots level. Community organizing is about fighting for change when your government has failed you and it is an inexorable element of modern democracy. Community organizers and non-profit volunteers have been some of the most tireless, extraordinary forces for change in American history, and whether or not you like Obama’s politics or personality, I cannot fathom a rational human being having any respect for Sarah Palin after making a statement like this.

Also: fuck you for your self-aggrandizing, masturbatory tooting of your own past as the mayor of an Anchorage suburb. You won your mayoral election 617-413. The average high school president has to answer to about two to three times more voting constituents than that.

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