“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.”
-Sarah Palin
VP Nominee
I know this is only my second week on the ground working on my campaign as an organizer, but I didn’t realize until the other night that I actually don’t have any responsibilities. I have been pretty busy and stressed out over this past week working on my college campuses and in the Kansas City area to activate and energize people around clean energy and the upcoming election. I have been scheduling and attending many meetings, going to classes and talking to them about the importance of this issue and why they should get involved, working with student organizations to get them on board, and talking to hundreds of people and asking them to volunteer to work on this issue. Had I known that I didn’t have any responsibility to Green Corps, to my fellow organizers, to the people I was talking to on campus, or even to my fellow human beings who are concerned with the state of our environment and are working to reduce the effects of global climate change – had I known this I definitely wouldn’t have been working so hard this week.
Thanks Ms. Palin for letting me know how it is. Thank goodness you are standing up against someone who understands what it means to work with people, to get them excited about an issue, to empower them and and teach them how to create change in their own communities. I am glad there is someone out there working against this guy-how dare he think that he can run our country and tell our citizens that they have a voice in the democratic process.
I think I will go and quit my meaningless job now.
You tell ‘em. If Palin hasn’t isolated and offended every community organizer of any kind they’re not looking close enough at her thoughtless statement. How inconcievable that a person like you might actually have responsibilities and stress! Thumbs down Miss Palin