What Are You Gonna Do About It?

Palin says being a community organizer is for lazy, inept people who can't handle the responsibilities inherent upon a small town mayor. It's true. Community organizers could never get it together enough to run up a giant debt and then spend the rest of the day at the library looking for books with swears in them.

There's something about her whole "being mayor is like being a community organizer, but with real responsibilities" line -- and not just that McCain's best people spent an entire weekend crafting the ultimate takedown speech and that was the best they could do. No, the troubling thing, for Palin and the GOP, is that she could have said, "being mayor is like being a college professor..." and thus continued the at least plausibly effective lie that Obama is a liberal elitist. But she didn't.

Instead, she attacked community organizers, who are not passive, take-it-lying-down people, by definition. Oh, and they, like, work in the community. Let's just say, they know some people.

Black people. Latino people. Even white people. Lots of poor people. Also, though, lots of women -- who, exactly, does Palin think founds, funds, and runs all those women's shelters, rape-crisis centers, family assistance centers, neighborhood family programs, and so on?

I don't have any evidence of this, but indulge me and consider this statement: today, right now, across the country, hundreds if not thousands of "community organizer"-types are community organizing their way towards a McCain-Palin defeat. Talk about attacking the wrong crowd -- that lipstick-wearing pit bull just bit my baby!

Anyway, if you (like me) couldn't sit through last night's brain-gruel that was the RNC, here's a fun recap from a long-haired (but funny! I have priorities!) hippie. (My favorite part of what I saw last night was when Carly Fiorina talked about what would happen in the future, year 2013, if McCain was elected: "and then he'll make peace on earth, and then on Mars, because we'll have been at war on Mars, and then we'll drill for oil on Mars, and then John McCain will marry a model from Mars, and then he'll balance the martian budget, and then..."

Hippie highlight:
"8:33 PM: CNN's annoying little FACT box on the bottom left of the screen tells me that Palin was elected governor of Alaska as a "maverick reformer". Where would we be without FACTS?" The same little corner box also had the schedule for the evening (I am not kidding): "NOW: Carly Fiorina. NEXT: RNC video tribute. LATER: VP Palin's speech." Wow. I'll just set my TiVo for "later" then. Thanks.