Community Organizer -vs- Mayor

Gov. Palin said:

"Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.
And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.

I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening.
We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."

The Dems say this is an attack on Community Organizers everywhere, I beg to differ. This is in defence of Mayors of small towns. It is the Dems that belittled her mayorship as not being "experience". But when she defends her job and says that she actually had "responsibilities" she didn't say enough. A mayor is where the "buck stops" and all the praise or blame falls when it comes to decisions made in a community. She was right to defend her mayorship and to compare it with Obama's "Community Organiser" history. But lets look at what his job entailed.

As a community organiser, Obamas job was what? He was charged with trying to help the people of Chicago create more opportunities for "social justice". That phrase should be familiar and some what scary for many. It is used all the time by the extreme left insofar as the people getting more of other peoples money. Via by tax dollars, non-profits or blackmailed corporations; ie: Jessy Jackson. Community organizing was started by Saul Alinsky.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1097651/posts

"The father of community organizing was ultra-leftist Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), a Chicagoan who elevated local-level political agitation to an art form. Alinsky, a significant influence on Obama, believed in “rubbing raw the sores of discontent.” In his classic book Rules for Radicals, Alinsky prescribed the tactics and defined the goals of community organizing. Among his “rules“: “Keep the pressure on. Never let up” and “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” " CFP http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4857

Mr. Alinsky's son, L. David Alinsky, states; "“I am proud to see that my father’s model for organizing is being applied successfully beyond local community organizing to affect the Democratic campaign in 2008. It is a fine tribute to Saul Alinsky as we approach his 100th birthday.” CFP (Canadian Free Press)

To put it easier and to let you know how the comparison works, in the hierarchy of politics, community organizers come to mayors for decisions to be made. So in the world of Palin vs Obama, she would have been his boss.

That about says it all.

CNBC's Maria B. on VP Pick Palin

Here's is more highlights of CNBC's Maria B talking about Gov. Palin, McCain's VP pick. She is strong on energy, the most important issue of our time as I write this. Russia invades Georgia because of pipelines, oil prices are falling but still over $110 per barrel. Iran, well, is being Iran and saber-rattling their forthcoming nuclear sword. And then there's Gustav, that again shows the vulnerability of the gulf coast oil rigs, shutting them down in anticipation of a big storm. Luckily the storm lost some punch and didn't damage as much as it could have, but it says volumes about our preparedness for the storms and our ability to provide the safety needed to protect the gulf waters from oil spills. But it also shows our dependence on just this region for our off shore oil production. If we were off Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, California, and off shore in Alaska and in ANWR, we wouldn't feel the angst when a storm approaches the gulf as we do now.

If Obama has his way and doesn't drill as we need, then we can look forward to more wheeling and dealing with people we don't like and that don't like us. We will have higher full costs, and with less domestic supply of oil, our recovery of this slow economy will take much longer.

I say lets look at Palins willingness to produce, she did it the age of 44, and has passed that desire down to her daughter, who is in the midst of some production herself. (sorry bad joke, but I had to comment some how. ) Even this revelation hasn't tempered the new enthusiasm for Palin and the McCain ticket. Talk'n the talk and Walk'n the walk. And with this news, how will any liberal talking head, or Dem. spinner say that the republicans don't know how the rest of us feel or live our lives. The Palins are as real as it gets, as far out of D.C. as you can possibly get and with real family issues like the rest of us. Did her daughter make a mistake, yes, but it is not the mistakes that make us who we are, it's how we react to them that shows our character. Why do we fall, so we can learn to pick ourselves up again.

The Barracuda Takes Point in the Energy Debate

If you have questions on Gov. Palin's qualities as a leader, take a look at this video from CNBC. She spells out, with a mavin's grasp of the issue, the reasons why we need to drill in ANWR and open up our country to more drilling. She really knows her stuff. I'm impressed and look forward to hearing Biden's explanation on why he voted against the Alaska oil pipeline 30 years ago. This choice of VP will make or brake this election. They usually don't, but if what I've seen from her and her affect on the republican base, unless she really steps in it we will see a female VP for the first time in Nov. I think that there is a better chance that Biden will step in it many times, with both feet, before she stumbles.