Roland Martin: Community Organizers Will Make Palin PAY!

[Edgewater_Joe]

WOW!

Roland Martin had steam coming out of his ears -- "Both my parents are community organizers, and they heard Palin and this crowd MOCKING them!"

And Martin is convinced Obama will launch a counterattack defending community organizers as people who fight for better housing and food and jobs, and when Sarah Palin and dumbassed Repunk conventioneers mock them they mock AMERICA!

BOO-YAH, Roland!

[skooooo]

1. kick

:kick: :kick: :kick:

[mucifer]

2. can't wait to hear Roland's Chicago radio show in the morning

www.wvon.com he gets pretty firey.

[Cha]

11. Thanks, mucifer and

thanks Edgewater for this news that I knew was gonna come from somewhere!

[Amonester]

3. K&R

:thumbsup:

[Top Cat]

4. I like Roland

[oviedodem]

5. BTW Martin's base is Chicago and if you don't think that Roland does not

have a direct link to Obama's blackberry; you just don't know. I remember after Hillary did the "heavens" thing, Roland said what Barack should do and dammit if he did not do it the next day.

[KingFlorez]

6. Community is one of the things this country is about

People get out and organize, doing things that are helpful to their community as a whole. Where I grew up, that was always something that I saw happening. It's really going to backfire for the GOP, mocking something a lot of upstanding citizens do.

[Olney Blue]

7. That scene was horrifying.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

8. I Hope So!!!

From what I read (sorry, I just couldn't watch it) it would seem to me to be THE line that will haunt McSame/Palin and perhaps the entire GOP for the rest of this election. The rest of the speech is pretty much Obama bashing and props for herself and McSame. O.k. Fine. Bashing the media and "Washington elite." Fine. It's their convention. But why would she GO OUT OF HER WAY to demean not only Obama's hard work as a community organizer but by extension everybody out there right now doing the same kind of work? If this doesn't prove beyond a shadow of a doubt how contemptuous the GOP REALLY is of working-class voters (whose votes they somehow always manage to win) and how the GOP (and their loyal supporters) are the REAL "elites" in this country then I'm not sure ANYTHING will. I can't wait to see Obama/Biden shred both of them to pieces in the debates and in the election.
:mad:

[BeyondGeography]

9. Needlessly antagonistic by Rudy and Tooty

Way to piss off people who organize. God, they're hopeless.

[Cha]

13. Oh but some thought tooty's speech

was "devastating"(to us)! And it would "energize their base!"

It was a "bush speech" who didn't even come in person to his party's convention. And, I think it's going to ENERGIZE OUR BASE:bounce:

[Cha]

10. See...this is what I thought..she would get that

BASE ENERGIZED:bounce: :patriot: :kick: :party: The Patriot Base.

[K8-EEE]

12. Thank you!!! That's exactly what I thought

Of course, her PTA gig was SO GOLDEN....wtf is that, community organization!

[Gabi Hayes]

14. I saw that. they completely ignored him. went right on to another bit of praise for

the speech

very sad

let's see how this plays out

I'm kinda worried, though

CNN is bringing on yet ANOTHER wingnut to analyze the speech

[TeamJordan23]

15. Palin disrespected urban communities across the US. nm

[President Decider]

16. Community Organizers across this country are seething mad. Yes ... she will pay dearly

Nobody organizes people to rally around a cause better than a Community Organizer.

Did she not think they would be somewhat offended by her disparigning comments directed at their career profession?

I think organizers are going to make her pay dearly.

[BigAnth]

17. Does anyone have a quote of her exact line?

I didn't see the speech and I'm curious to see what exactly was said.

Thanks.

[thestrugglecontinues]

24. The Community Organizer vote

I think Palin/McCain are willing to miss out on the community organizer vote. No offense, it just isn't their constituency.

[eshfemme]

18. I love Roland Martin! His interview with Cenk from Young Turks was awesome too!

[everything-bolt-up]

19. I manage an office which is an international NGO and we are already talking

about linking up with other charities and rally against this. This was INSULTING TO MY PROFESSION. Where is fucking Sarah Palin when I get home very late, work on weekends for little pay, when I have to organize a community programme with next to no money and see the difference it makes to that one orphan child? WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE??

This woman has been pissing me off all week. Now I will not sit down. I ain't taking this shit!

[eshfemme]

22. Yes! Show her what happens when you sneer at the very infrastructure that small towns thrive on!

[KittyWampus]

20. she/they didn't just mock organizers. They mocked Common Man

[vaberella]

21. Is he online, if he is...link please. n/t

[Jennicut]

23. Dumb move by Rethugs, it will backfire

Lots of people help out in communities to make a difference in people who have little money or means to a better way of life. This is just one more slap at the little people and the Rethugs will once again come off as out of touch.