Yes, we can.

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I didn't see it as demeaning community service work.

In the same way that you see (and it is in fact) a clever retort about Jesus and Pilate, the "demeaning" of community service work was a clever retort to how she had been (by dems, not specifically Obama) only the mayor of a small town (or whatever they were saying specifically) and was therefore completely unqualified.

Community service was not demeaned, it was citing community service work as a qualification to be President that was demeaned.

If you saw Giuliani's speech, you know he started it. He said ithe phrase "community organizer" in a puzzled manner and laughed, like it was some weird, hippiedippie, fake pseudo-intellectual thing that he had never heard of before. The "Drill baby drill" crowd ate it up, and Palin continued the theme.

If they wanted to not demean community service--or, more specifically, community service performed in big cities--they would have used the same rhetorical line the Democrats did with McCain's service record: "I respect, blah, blah, blah . . . BUT."

[sleepyjeff]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

I just see it as an "oh yeah" joke about the Republicans maligning Obama's experience as a community organizer. If the shoe was on the other foot and the Democrats maligned a Republican's experience in a community or church organization, they'd be accused of being out of touch and expecting government to solve all our problems.

A fair point.