Okay, I was prepared for a vicious series of RNC speeches.  Republicans attack...that's what they do...and they do it fiercely when they're losing. 

I figured they would fail to roll out a real agenda - despite the pressure they put on Obama to do just that - because all that "policy" and all those "details" stink of elitist intellectualism, and don't boil down nicely into 10-word-answers and slogans.

So, based on who they are, the bar was set really low.  I was curious to see what they did with their "Service" theme, and as usual, they seem to think the only real way to "serve" is in the military.  Big surprise.

But then Palin made the crack about community organizers and I wanted to vomit.  They want small government.  They want to cut funding for social programs.  They think the people and the markets should take care of themselves.  AND THEN THEY DENIGRATE THE VERY PEOPLE WHO TRY TO DO THAT.

McCain urged his audience to "stand up and fight for your childrens' future," but what he didn't say is that everyone should only look out for their own; once you try to organize a community, suddenly you're a second class citizen.

So, while the Republicans were failing to roll out an agenda to talk about how can improve, say, public schools, Reverend Meeks in Chicago was rolling out a city-wide boycott of the Chicago Public Schools to protest inequities in school funding.  He took 2000 children and parents to attend classes on the lawns of schools like New Trier (a very well funded suburban school).  Then he took them to corporations in the Chicago Loop highlight the issue to businesspeople (and to show the students what a good education could get them).  Teachers conducted classes in lobbies and hallways (and on the tv news they said the conditions in the hallway were better than their classrooms).  All of this was organized and executed in the name of helping all students get a quality education.

The system is broken and unequal, but the problem of our school system not only doesn't merit a bullet point in ANY Republican speech, they take it upon themselves to MOCK the people who are actually trying to fix it.

No, Governor Palin - Community Organizers are not assigned specific "responsibilities."  That's because they are VOLUNTEERING to do the work you don't want to bother with.  They take the responsibility on themselves, they aren't assigned to it.  Dr. King was a community organizer.  Are you trying to tell me that his work was useless because he wasn't told what to do?  Because he wasn't paid for it? 

There are real people in this country who are working their hearts out for NOTHING (or next to nothing), to clean up the messes made by our Republican government while the folks who were ASSIGNED to do this work were sitting around, stealing, lying, picking up cops in bathrooms, firing their brothers-in-law, sending troops into stupid wars, and misspending our tax money.  Yes, we should ABSOLUTELY mock these people for all that they do.  That's definitely the MORAL choice.  Thank you so much for making that clear for all of us. 

They just don't get it.