"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
I actually thought McCain handled things pretty well tonight, given the theme of the forum. He put the blame for the negative tone of the campaign on Obama’s campaign and defended Palin while giving kudos to Obama’s work in the community.
I agree...he could have slammed Obama’s paid community organizing work
hell the sumbeach was a paid activist
it’s ridiculous
Actually, I don’t think he blew it when taken in context of how vicious the left has been towards Governor Palin, and especially in light of obama’s lipstick on a pig remark the other day.
McCain, is taking the high road while the left continues to swim in the gutter.
Work parties in “National Service” is not my idea of where I would like this country to go. I have worked considerably in this area over the past six years. Volunteerism is a community building element. The best money invested in strengthening a community is in leadership training (group dynamics, running a meeting, asset mapping, strategic and action planning, fundraising, project development) ; non-profit Board development; and collaboration and public/private partnerships. What you want to end up with is a community that is self-determinant, has a shared vision, has multiple leaders, a culture of collaboration among organizations, youth involvement in leadership and a high degree of volunteerism among residents. You want to leverage public funds with private business and foundation grants to assist in developing strong communities that select their own directions. You do not want a National bureaucracy that musters volunteers to come in and do what the government thinks is best. This creates dependence, a culture of victimization and everything the Republican Party is against.
John McCain is so right on this. He is talking about a return to the De Tocqueville America of our forefathers. He knows the private sector does it best. It sounds like Obama wants a National work corps as an alternative to military service with all the post service benefits. This will not help build and strengthen communities from the inside out. You will end up with a nation of communities like old New Orleans with victims awaiting outside help to take care of them.
McCain should look very closely at just what “kind” of Community “organizer” Obama is.
A Marxist Class Warfare Activist is a “community Organizer” only in a Communist sense of the word. He literally worked his butt off to create class division and destroy his community as an effort to convert Americas democracy to his Marxist ideal. Obama’s record should have him in Gitmo as a traitor, not a hero up for election.
It turns out that a Community Organizer is just like Jesus and Abraham Lincoln! I'll bet Al Sharpton liked that when a half-dozen Obama surrogates simultaneously came up with that definition. But hey, The Hon. Elijah Cummings has said that even to question the sanctity of the calling of Community Organization is to be a racist. Gee, I don't want to have racist feelings towards Jesus and Abraham Lincoln, do I? I could end up in eternal hellfire without the benefit of habeus corpus! I'm perfectly willing to give the last full measure of acceptance to the explanation that for five years Barak Obama spent his time walking on Lake Michigan and composing a redux of the Gettysburg Address. Are these guys kidding? We all think of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton when we hear 'community organizer' and Obama might have stopped going to Rev Wright's whacko racist marxist lunatic asylum when the heat got turned up but he doesn't want to talk about the twenty years he hung out with his surrogate father. Do those Dems think people have stopped thinking about that just because Obama's too slippery to get pinned down by his accommodating friends in the mainstream media?---from skep41