About Community Organizers

The tit-for-tat continues during the US Presidential elections.

Former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani belittled Obama saying that he was just a "community organizer". So what is Giuliani implying?.....Last time I looked it was still an honest way to earn a living.....Hey, my daddy was among other things also a community worker.

Palin, followed up with "I am just your average hockey mom" who became mayor and then governor. She mocked Obama's experiences, "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities."

Which brings us to...Was Jesus a community organizer? According to labor leader Cecil Roberts, Jesus was a community organizer, so was Martin Luther King and Moses.

You know Giuliani and Palin, it is also about the politics of race, ethnicity, privilege, economics, social class and gender.

Regarding the "Lipstick on a Pig" comment

Well the US elections are in full swing and things are heating up plus the name calling is getting louder. The Obama/Biden and McCain/Palin camps are trading insults. Push is coming to shove. Oh my!!!

With respect to the "lipstick on a pig" comment, in her opening remarks of her convention speech, Sarah Palin said, "You know the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull? Lipstick." Obama later said and I quote,

"John McCain says he's about change too, and so I guess his whole angle is, 'Watch out George Bush -- except for economic policy, health care policy, tax policy, education policy, foreign policy and Karl Rove-style politics -- we're really going to shake things up in Washington,'" he said.

"That's not change. That's just calling something the same thing something different. You know you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. You know you can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change, it's still going to stink after eight years. We've had enough of the same old thing."

Everyone is weighing in on the "lipstick on a pig" comment. But after reviewing the above quote, it seems like Obama is referring to the Republicans and the current Bush administration, and not specifically to Sarah Palin. The Republicans are smelling to "high heaven".

It is time for a "change in politics" in the US. This is the reason why, Senator Barack Obama and the Democrats have captured the imagination of the American people, especially the younger voters.

Election Fever

Well, now is the perfect time to start a political blog. I could not resist the siren songs any longer, and decided that there was no time like the present to start this political blog. Currently, we are living in a dynamic era of change. We have the American elections heating up and also hints that the Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will call a federal election this coming Sunday.

In Canada, we have Prime Minister Stephen Harper of the Conserative Party of Canada, Opposition Leader Stephane Dion of the Liberal Party, Jack Layton of the New Democrat Party, Gilles Duceppe of the Bloc Québécois and Elizabeth May of the Green Party vying for the Prime Minister's position.

On the other hand, in the United States of America, we have Senator John McCain, a Viet-Nam war veteran and Senator Barack Obama, a bi-racial candidate who is a former community organizer and a lawyer by profession. Both are trying capture the White House in the upcoming November Presidential elections. Not to mention McCain's running mate, Governor Sarah Palin, the incumbent governor of Alaska, who is shaping up to be a controversial figure in this upcoming elections and is bent on taking on Obama and the Democrats. Senator Joe Biden is Obama's pick for Vice-President.

September is shaping up to be a very busy month. With two elections to observe what's a Canadian to do? Canadians cannot vote in the upcoming American elections but our votes seem to have already been cast in favour of Obama, the Presidential nominee for the Democrats. Now all that Canadians have to do is get out and cast their votes for their respective Canadian candidates in the, most likely, upcoming Canadian elections.