Xenon said:
What! Volunteers are not some special protected group. Its not like people are saying "Let People not be judged by race, gender, age or volunteer status. Seriously this is what Im talking about. All of a sudden Community leaders are some sacred cow that can not be spoken ill of in public. People make all kinds of condescending statements that offend some people. Im sure there are thousands in all the NeoGaf political threads. It was a cheap shot. That may have been somewhat offensive when put under the microscope. But how is that any different than people here belittle people faith or beliefs trying to make their points.
These are people who volunteer their time to help those in need get back on their feet. What Palin and your boy Giuliani did was belittle the effort they spend as not having responsibility, like these people just sit around and collect checks at the end of the day.
The big difference between Palin and Obama, and this is aside from Palin being corrupt to the gills, is that Obama worked in this campaign. He had to work to get black folks on board. He had to work to convince people that he was the right guy for the job. He helped create a movement that defeated the Clinton machine of all things. And all the while, the media was questioning who he was and what he's done, because they don't really know what he's all about because he's so new. But now, he's earned it. He had to work for those votes, and now Palin was chosen, without doing anything else but being a female neocon, and she's getting the same treatment that he did. Who is she? What has she done? Because we don't really know what she's all about because she's so new.
She strikes me as an opportunist. Not the good kind, y'know, a risk-taker, but someone who wants to move forward with her own selfish goals. She brought up Hillary Clinton's support on day one and acted like it was her own support just because she has a vagina. She acts like she's entitled to the women vote in a way Barack Obama never acted like he was entitled to the black vote. And with only having spoke to McCain for 15 minutes and then once more on the phone, she decides to be the VP. She decides that she's the right person for the job, despite never being in the national spotlight, despite being woefully uneducated on the major issues of the American people, despite having run a city of 9,000 and left them with a $20m debt, despite keeping the money from the Bridge to Nowhere, despite her cronyism, despite having been part of the AIP, despite using religion to judge what books to read, despite her executive power to stall an independent investigation, despite her lack of professionalism regarding political foes such as Lyda Green, despite not even knowing what a VP does every day just a month before she was chosen, she agrees with John McCain and decides she's the right person for the job.
So yeah, this newbie's gonna come under a lot of scrutiny, and she really should. Nobody knows who she is and in her biggest appearance, she attacks the people who help others. Pathetic.
