Ban ALL Community Organizers!

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Ban ALL Community Organizers!

From Gov. Mitt Romney, Mayor Rudy Guilliani to Gov. Sarah Palin - Community Organizers are bad. After listening to them I'm convinced community organizers are bad and should be banned.

When a local church group knocks on my door and asks for donations - I will slam the door in their face. When the Salvation Army rings their bell at the corner, I'll kick over their kettle. If the Elks, the Moose, the Rotary Club pleads asks for help with a community project, I will spit in their faces.

If there are donation cans at the cashier counter in my local store which ask for help for someone in need of an operation, I'll pass it by. If my neighbor has a house fire, I'll tell them tough luck - you are on your own. When a hurricane hits, I won't send money. If there's another 9-11 - too bad, I won't give money. The Red Cross wants blood donations? Sorry - YOU ARE A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER!!!

When the local Veterans Organization asks for items to be sent to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan - they will get nothing from me. Schools - don't call on me to help with a bake sale or a car wash. Hey Girl Scouts - don't bother trying to sell me cookies. Boy Scouts - forget the aluminum can drives. Those cans are mine and you can't have them.

I also call on the Republican Party to formally admonish themselves for postponing their convention to take part in community organization activities by helping people in the path of Hurricane Gustav.

[valerief]

1. I'd like to see some signs tonight behind the MSNBC bobblehead desk

that read "Down with Comunity Organanizers!" or "Cummunity Orginizors Bite!"

Moran spelling is deliberate.

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2. personally, I can't wait

until some repub at our local fair tries to hand me a flyer or something - I'm going to tell them they should be ashamed of themselves for participating in community organization...

:rofl:

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3. I spoke with a community organizer in Iowa just moments ago:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=3923553&mesg_id=3923553

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5. saw that and cross posted

I think the repubs have bit off more than can chew with that meme... watch them get all scrambly real soon

[Iris]

4. especially the PTA

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6. Join John Birch in opposing your local community organization. It's a commie idea.

America is about individualism, not cooperation, comrade.

[JDPriestly]

7. Start with the father of community organizers -- Benjamin Franklin

Just wipe him out of the history books -- whoosh. Gone.

Franklin and the "Junto."

Franklin started "a club of young workingmen in the fall of 1727 . . . called the Leather Apron Club and officially dubbed the Junto."

Originally comprised of twelve members, they met in a tavern and talked about philosophy, self-improvement and networked. Based on his network and his ability to publicize efforts through his newspaper, Franklin pushed for civic improvements of all kinds. He was the most notable of our early community organizers. He used public-private fundraising to get things done.

In so doing, Franklin was following the advice of Cotton Mather. Franklin started a subscription library, helped organize the Union Fire Company (1736) and, working with the government, police patrols.

I strongly recommend that DUers and Ms. Palin read Benjamin Franklin, an American Life by Walter Isaacson to learn how our foremost community organizer inspired all of us who volunteer in our respective communities. To cast aspersions on community organizers is to question the very fundamental values of our society.

Maligning or belittling community organizers is downright unAmerican.

I'm proud to have been a "community organizer" myself for some years (working in a non-profit homeless shelter in the inner city). Although my achievements have been nothing compared to Benjamin Franklin's, I know he would have approved. By the way, beyond DU and volunteering for campaigns, I am not a politician at all. I don't earn my living in politics.

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8. how first responders? volunteer fire departments?

or women's shelters, organizations to help pregnant teenagers, support groups for families with special needs children, meals on wheels - all gone

after-school tutoring programs, little league, hospice, habitat for humanity, christian childrens fund

we also have an all volunteer military - are their services to the community also a pile of crap?

what about all churches that provide services to their members and community?

when mccain, palin and their buddies pooh pooh community organizations they are pooh poohing on all of them

[JDPriestly]

10. You are so right. The McCainites are just using it as shorthand

for "people who don't look like me or live where I do." We know what that really means. It's racism, pure and simple.

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11. full version of my rant is here

http://stone-waves.blogspot.com/

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9. and lest we forget...

Matthew 25:31-45. Jesus commends His disciples for coming to Him when He was in need. He appreciated the fact that they fed Him when He was hungry, gave Him water when He was thirsty, took Him in when He was a stranger, brought Him clothes when He was naked, visited Him when He was sick and came to Him when He was in prison.

Not having done any of these things for Him, they were confused at His declaration. So they asked Him when they saw Him in these situations, and He then explained the fuller meaning. He clarified by saying, “Inasmuch as you have done it for the least of My brothers, you have done it unto Me.”

this is the basis of community organizations, organizations that would not get off the ground without ORGANIZERS and volunteers