Comments on: GOP Thinks Organizing In Your Community Is Worthless http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/ Firedoglake weblog Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:59:54 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: moistenedbink http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615778 moistenedbink Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:32:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615778 <p>Don’t heap too much praise on Campbell Brown just yet. She is married to Republican insider Dan Senor after all. I’m hoping against hope that since she had a child she has become frightened at the world the Republicans want to leave us and as a smart and accomplished woman she is appalled at this choice of VP who is no more than a token.</p> <p>And aren’t anti-abortion counselors community activists of sorts? And pastors?</p> Don’t heap too much praise on Campbell Brown just yet. She is married to Republican insider Dan Senor after all. I’m hoping against hope that since she had a child she has become frightened at the world the Republicans want to leave us and as a smart and accomplished woman she is appalled at this choice of VP who is no more than a token.

And aren’t anti-abortion counselors community activists of sorts? And pastors?

]]> By: demi http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615430 demi Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:53:06 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615430 <p>hey Adie!<br /> We must be tenaciuos, huh?</p> hey Adie!
We must be tenaciuos, huh?

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615423 Adie Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:43:21 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615423 <p>A comment on THE speech might help put things in perspective.</p> <p>One of the columnists in our local paper viewed the day’s events and crafted the following from edited wire reports:</p> <blockquote><p><strong>There seems to be more coverage of Hurricane Gustav than the convention. Both very different, of course. One’s a stormy blast of wind that throws mud everywhere . . . the other’s Hurricane Gustav.</strong></p></blockquote> A comment on THE speech might help put things in perspective.

One of the columnists in our local paper viewed the day’s events and crafted the following from edited wire reports:

There seems to be more coverage of Hurricane Gustav than the convention. Both very different, of course. One’s a stormy blast of wind that throws mud everywhere . . . the other’s Hurricane Gustav.

]]> By: demi http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615422 demi Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:40:25 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615422 <p>Nice try. Good try also, but I’m not buying it. This site has always been a hog. Too many bells and whistles, is my guess. I’ve been here during both conventions, and slow as it was, it actually did work. Are you suggesting that certain posts other than the live blogging Really Big Ones are attracting so many visitors that they are causing all this distress?<br /> I’m not saying I don’t believe the back stage folks are working on getting the hinkies out, but, it’s been a long time since this site functioned adequately and I do enjoy being here. I just don’t enjoy being feed a spoonful of you know what…</p> Nice try. Good try also, but I’m not buying it. This site has always been a hog. Too many bells and whistles, is my guess. I’ve been here during both conventions, and slow as it was, it actually did work. Are you suggesting that certain posts other than the live blogging Really Big Ones are attracting so many visitors that they are causing all this distress?
I’m not saying I don’t believe the back stage folks are working on getting the hinkies out, but, it’s been a long time since this site functioned adequately and I do enjoy being here. I just don’t enjoy being feed a spoonful of you know what…

]]> By: JPL9 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615398 JPL9 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:27:58 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615398 <p>I haven’t read all the comments but Mother Teresa was a community organizer. In fact didn’t Cindy McCain almost meet her.</p> I haven’t read all the comments but Mother Teresa was a community organizer. In fact didn’t Cindy McCain almost meet her.

]]> By: cinnamonape http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615393 cinnamonape Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:16:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615393 <p>If Palin “hit a home run” it was with a corked bat, while using steriods, and on a home park where right field was brought in to 200 feet. Her speech was filled with lies, distortions and evasions of the issues that really beset the REST of America today. </p> <p>Oil wealthy and low population Alaska isn’t facing anything like what the rest of us confront, economically or otherwise.In fact, thanks to the Alaskan Constitution (which Palin can’t meddle with) oil and gas companies are charged high rates for leases and taxed sufficiently so that Alaskans don’t need to pay State income or Sales taxes. The Alaska Permanent Fund is an investment fund, managed by the State, and allocated in a manner that the Governor can’t meddle with. It pays for health care, affordable college educations, and a variety of social services that Republicans elsewhere adamantly oppose. It’s more akin to Norwegian socialism than “laissez-faire” bootstraps go-it-alone philosophy. Biden should ask Palin if she supports eliminating the Alaska Permanent Fund and giving it back to the oil companies?</p> <p>But look at when Palin was really acting as an “executive”…after she was elected as Mayor of Wasilla (with 600 and 900 vote). Things ran well when the small town of 5000 had a city manager running services, but after she fired the city manager and most of those in city governement who opposed her style, things fell apart. She had a $15 million Sports Center (”Pitbull with Lipstick” Hockey Mom wanting to showcase jocks like Levi) built on land without clear title. Thus she saddled Wasilla with still-continuing lawsuits. She left balanced-budget Wasilla with a $25 million deficit (that’s $3-5000 per person for LOCAL debt) requiring a local sales tax. She brought in several Big Box Stores, luring them with low property tax rates and killed off several small businesses as a result. Someone should check if her race for Lt. Gov. (which she lost) and Governor were financed by these Big Box companies.</p> <p>Her lobbying for Federal pork and her hypocrisy on Federal earmarks are getting much needed attention.</p> If Palin “hit a home run” it was with a corked bat, while using steriods, and on a home park where right field was brought in to 200 feet. Her speech was filled with lies, distortions and evasions of the issues that really beset the REST of America today.

Oil wealthy and low population Alaska isn’t facing anything like what the rest of us confront, economically or otherwise.In fact, thanks to the Alaskan Constitution (which Palin can’t meddle with) oil and gas companies are charged high rates for leases and taxed sufficiently so that Alaskans don’t need to pay State income or Sales taxes. The Alaska Permanent Fund is an investment fund, managed by the State, and allocated in a manner that the Governor can’t meddle with. It pays for health care, affordable college educations, and a variety of social services that Republicans elsewhere adamantly oppose. It’s more akin to Norwegian socialism than “laissez-faire” bootstraps go-it-alone philosophy. Biden should ask Palin if she supports eliminating the Alaska Permanent Fund and giving it back to the oil companies?

But look at when Palin was really acting as an “executive”…after she was elected as Mayor of Wasilla (with 600 and 900 vote). Things ran well when the small town of 5000 had a city manager running services, but after she fired the city manager and most of those in city governement who opposed her style, things fell apart. She had a $15 million Sports Center (”Pitbull with Lipstick” Hockey Mom wanting to showcase jocks like Levi) built on land without clear title. Thus she saddled Wasilla with still-continuing lawsuits. She left balanced-budget Wasilla with a $25 million deficit (that’s $3-5000 per person for LOCAL debt) requiring a local sales tax. She brought in several Big Box Stores, luring them with low property tax rates and killed off several small businesses as a result. Someone should check if her race for Lt. Gov. (which she lost) and Governor were financed by these Big Box companies.

Her lobbying for Federal pork and her hypocrisy on Federal earmarks are getting much needed attention.

]]> By: allan http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615392 allan Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:05:11 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615392 <p>Community organizing, <a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/273376_estatewash09.html" rel="nofollow"> Republican style</a>.</p> Community organizing, Republican style.

]]> By: Ann in AZ http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615391 Ann in AZ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:03:51 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615391 <p>Anyway, Sarah Palin got it wrong. Community organizing is what you do when local government has failed to protect its citizens from the ravages of long cold winters, or old age and fixed incomes, and many other failures that occur when local mayors see their job as enriching the already rich and imposing their particular brand of morality on their neighborhoods. You know, the type of Mayor that considers ways to censure or burn books and otherwise considers herself the morals police.</p> Anyway, Sarah Palin got it wrong. Community organizing is what you do when local government has failed to protect its citizens from the ravages of long cold winters, or old age and fixed incomes, and many other failures that occur when local mayors see their job as enriching the already rich and imposing their particular brand of morality on their neighborhoods. You know, the type of Mayor that considers ways to censure or burn books and otherwise considers herself the morals police.

]]> By: AZ Matt http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615390 AZ Matt Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:03:12 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615390 <p>Sooo Slow Today. Some thingy must be out of whack. </p> <p>Or talking about Palin must have a rotten effect on the Toobz. Maybe it’s Ted Stevens’ revenge!</p> Sooo Slow Today. Some thingy must be out of whack.

Or talking about Palin must have a rotten effect on the Toobz. Maybe it’s Ted Stevens’ revenge!

]]> By: Adie http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615389 Adie Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:53:33 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2008/09/04/gop-thinks-organizing-in-your-community-is-worthless/#comment-1615389 <p>apologies for dubblepost. toobz acting crazy with the error messages…</p> <p>would appreciate removal of either 65 or 66, thanks mods, as well as this one.</p> <p>u must be having an awful time today. i don’t envy u!</p> apologies for dubblepost. toobz acting crazy with the error messages…

would appreciate removal of either 65 or 66, thanks mods, as well as this one.

u must be having an awful time today. i don’t envy u!

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