G.O.P. is Out of Touch

Well if you did not know it by now, the Greedy Old Prude convention confirmed it last night. The Republicans are completely out of touch with the common American. Not one of them mentioned the economy, not one of them mentioned alternative energy, and not one of them mentioned health care. What did they mention? Well, aside from hockey (which most Americans can't afford to put their kids in), they bashed Obama for not getting a high paying corporate job after he graduated from Harvard. According to the Republicans, a community organizer is a joke.

Why is it a joke to want to get into your community and help people who are not as fortunate as you? If anything, it makes Barak and Michelle Obama more admirable, because they both could have gotten high paying corporate lawyer jobs out of college. Instead, they decided to live in Chicago and give back to the community, working hard to pay the bills. Now let's talk about what a community organizer does, and why it deserves a lot more respect than what the Republicans think.

According to the official Obama campaign a community organizer is, "the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies. Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack's experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed."

What a slap in the face to poor people, those who live paycheck to paycheck, those with little savings, and those who may be comfortable economically, but realize that there are millions who are not. If we go out and register the millions of hard working Americans to vote that aren't already registered, we can show them what the Democratic process means. The PEOPLE choose the leader who can understand what they are going through, who doesn't think it's a joke that people lose their jobs, or can't find work, or can't work because of sickness that they don't have a health care plan to take care of. Unfreaking believable!

I also kept scanning the crowd, and it looked like a sea of rich white people in suits and ties and gowns and pant suits. The crowd certainly was not even half as energized as the Democrats, and I am certain that McCain will not get more viewers of his speech than the Super Bowl or the Olympics. That's right, according to Nielsen ratings, Obama had over 40 million people tune into his acceptance speech last week. That's the highest rating in television this year of any show or event!

I want the Republicans to keep making fun of community helpers, and keep thinking we are worried about controlling the sex lives of our citizens. Keep on keeping on McCain, and hopefully your entire rich people base turns out to vote, so it won't be such an embarrassing landslide in November. Then the Republicans will understand that Roe vs. Wade is done, and it's time to tackle the real problems of America.

And in other national news, please don't think that our area up here in the North Cascades is a crazy shoot 'em up wild west. We have made the national news twice in less than 2 months for shooting deaths, but this last one could have happened anywhere in America. The man that went on the shooting rampage is mentally ill, and is another reason why national healthcare should be in the spotlight. Perhaps it could have been prevented if he could have gotten the mental health care he needed.