Republicans Hate Community Organizers

Palin: "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities."

"Actual responsibilities."

The Obama campaign (by email) put this in some context:

Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America's promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it's happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.

This is an unbelievable statement (and theme) from the Republicans. Remember, they've always claimed they're the party of individual responsibility, self-sufficiency, limited government. But what Palin is saying is, if you're not in government then you don't "have actual responsibilities."

Wouldn't Martin Luther King, Jr., qualify as a community organizer? Or as the email from the Obama campaign says, anyone who helped organize the women's suffrage movement and thousands of other causes that helped us all make progress?

This is a slap against ordinary Americans who get out and do things for their community and nation.