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I don’t want to shill, but this piece from David Plouffe’s latest ask for fundage deserves to be highlighted:

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.

Let’s clarify something for them right now.

Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.

And it’s no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.

Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America’s promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women’s suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it’s happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.

That callous and petty shtick was to me one of the lowest points of the night, and showed just how sad these people have become. Twenty years ago Barack Obama was working from the grassroots to help the people who needed it the most, but you should trust Sarah Palin because twenty months ago she was making much more critical “executive decisions” like whether Elm Street should get a stoplight.

And no Rudy, we don’t care that Wasilla isn’t “cosmopolitan”. New York is as cosmopolitan as it gets, but we don’t think you’re qualified either. I don’t know if you cling to god and guns, but it’s clear that in your case, “bitter” was right on the mark.