The McCain/Palin Campaign, indeed - the whole Republican Convention, made fun of Community Organizers as an important background to the Obama campaign. What this has led to is complaints from thousands of Community Organizers throughout the country. This new ad, for instance:

It has also prompted the creation of web sites like Community Organizers Strike Back. There we find quotes like: "The last thing we need is for Republican officials to mock us on television when we're trying to rebuild the neighborhoods they have destroyed."

Tomorrow, George Bush and John McCain are leading the charge to sellout the American taxpayer, and their children, and their children's children, for $1 trillion-plus, all in an effort to win the general election now.

Over the next 24-48 hours, the Democrats along with the entire American public, from Barack Obama on down, are being setup for the mother of all royal clusterf**ks by George Bush, John McCain and the Republicans as far as the proposed government takeover of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac is concerned.

As foreclosures proliferate, as food prices soar, as we sit at the kitchen table strategizing and robbing Peter to pay Paul, the refrain of the theme song from Rent - "how we're gonna pay...how we're gonna pay...last years rent" runs through my head.

Today is the last day of Rent on Broadway.

I have my own memories of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the neighborhood captured by Jonathan Larson who died before seeing his play shine on Broadway.

So now the political cognoscenti are suggesting that OLLLLLLLLLDDDDDD Rodham-Clinton paved the way for Sarah Palin -- which must burn that Old Bat's hide even more than losing to Barry O.  

But as you can see, Palin has attracted interest and excitement worldwide that ORC could only dream about.  So I offer a more concise comparison between the two:

Sarah Palin is a governor with an 80% approval rating.  Rodham-Clinton is an abomination who was the worst first lady in American history.

Palin worked her way up, first as a PTA member; than as Mayor; than as a commissioner of an important energy commission; then she was elected governor as a reform agent; and finally she was nominated to be vice president.

Rodham-Clinton road the coattails of the leader of the Clintonistas:  if it wasn't for him she would never have become the carpet-bagging senator from NY, she never would have run for first lady or whatever office she thought she was pursing and, in fact, she wouldn't even exist politically.

OLLLLLLDDDDDDDD Rodham-Clinton would be a complete unknown if not for her willingness to hitch a ride aboard the Clintonista express.

In short, I don't want to hear any of more you lunatic lefties saying Rodham-Clinton is in Sarah Palin's league.   And as for that OLLLLDDDDDD bat running again in 2012 against Palin, fat chance!!!

ORC is up for reelection in 2012.  New York's Republican party has a 4-year head start to find a legitimate candidate for the senate seat to run against her  -- and finally put that ORC out to pasture.  

In conclusion:  Rodham-Clinton is yesterday's news.  Sarah Palin is America's sweetheart -- and part of our future!!! Hahahahahahahaha!!!!

Crossposted at [REDACTED]

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Much has been talked about, with respect to John McCain's time at the Naval Academy.  As someone who also went there, I want to express my deep admiration for John McCain's accomplishment of graduating 6th from the bottom.

In 1988, I graduated from the United States Naval Academy, exactly 30 years after John McCain.  In my graduating class of around 1100, I graduated dead in the middle, in the low 500s.  By all measures, I was an average Midshipman.

How was my class rank calculated, and why did class rank matter?

Class rank is a combination of several factors:

1. Academic Performance

2. Professional Performance
   
3. Leadership Performance

There may be several more factors, and they may have changed since I graduated 20 years ago, but those should still be the major areas that are used to calculate class rank.

Why does class rank matter?  

Because it determines what you get to pick for a job when you graduate.

What's the most sought after job?

Naval Aviator.

After seeing the following diary on Dkos, 600,000 Ohio voters subject to GOP caging. . . I had to pass along another diary from EENR that seems to be just the opposite.

The following is from Karita Hummer at EENR.

Federal law and the U.S. Constitution to trump Ohio Election Law.

Lo and Behold!  Voting Progress from Columbus! Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner gives us good voting rights news for a change.

In a Press Release issued from the office of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, it was announced that she was sending clarification to local Election Boards that " that 60 day notices sent by boards of election to voters that are returned as undeliverable cannot be used as the sole reason for canceling an Ohioan's voter registration."
http://www.sos.state.oh.us/SOS/PressRele ases/2008%20Press%20Releases/20080905.as px

More below...

For quite sometime I have been asking people here why are you not tough enough? Why are we sticking to issues only when the Republicans want a fight on character. Well now we have the press ticked off at the McCain-Palin campaign and it is time to get tough.

In the instant flashlight of celebrity, the rumors, allegations, and "glamor" surrounding the Palin pick has obscured the most frightening development of the last two weeks.  It is pretty clear, by now, that John McCain has either consciously sold out to the theocrats in his party or, worse still, is not able to keep them under control.  By choosing a rabidly conservative hard-core Christian fundamentalist as his running mate, the table is set for a nightmare scenario in which she ascends to the Presidency.

The talismanic issue here is that of creationism/intelligent design.  I don't for one second believe that the evangelical nuts who seem to be in control of the Republican party actually care for a second about what kids are taught regarding the origins of the cosmos and the human race.  No, rather this issue is a deliberate attack on science in particular, and the primacy of expertise and established fact in general.  The insidious notion that we should teach creationism "alongside" evolution as if both are equally plausible is as disingenuous as it is dangerous.

Yes, Barack is a once-in-a-lifetime inspirational leader.  Yes, he clearly wins on every policy issue.  Yes, the war must end.  Yes, the economy is disastrous; but more important than anything else in this election is the preservation of the separation of church and state.  These lunatics want a theocracy.