Is that really necessary?

Quick update: I'm in LA! I moved down on Monday and though I don't have any furniture in my apartment, I'm officially here and you can start visiting me now. ok?? I started orientation for my internship on Wednesday and I start my internship on Monday. Classes don't start until September 25th, so I won't be too busy until then. So seriously, come visit!

Anyways, so you want to know what's been making me angry the last day? The freaking GOP. Specifically, RudyGiuliani's and SarahPalin's speech at the RNC. What a bunch of snarky, disrespectful idiots. They criticized Obama's experience as a community organizer and basically turned the entire profession into the laughingstock of the convention. Is that really necessary? Who do they think actually make positive changes happen in our communities? I was listening to Giu1iani's speech on the radio and I had to turn it off, it was making me so angry. This is a portion of a commentary on CNN by RolandS.Martin, and I completely agree:

"So when Rudy Giuliani and Palin mock community organizers, they don't just toss a barb at Sen. Barack Obama, they demean Reginald and Emelda Martin. They degrade the women who fought for their rights. They disrespect the labor activists and immigrant worker activists like Cesar Chavez.

They dismiss those in the civil rights movement -- folks from small town America who were sick and tired of being sick and tired. They thumb their noses at the Nelson Mandelas of the world who want a better life for their children.

It would have been perfectly fine for Giuliani and Palin to say that Obama's community organizing days didn't amount to enough experience to be president.

But when you openly laugh and mock those hard-working Americans who are in the trenches every day, then you really don't care about "Country First" or service.

Will this be a major deal or a ripple? Likely the latter. But the one thing I know about community organizers is that they know how to organize communities. And if the McCain-Palin ticket wants to win, they best not slap those folks they need for voter registration drives and systems to get folks to the polls.

Community organizers are always told they can't do something or are dismissed as meaningless.

Yet they often have the last laugh.

Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Palin and John McCain might want to remember that."

The full article is here: Commentary: GOP Shouldn't Knock Community Organizers