Left with nothing to say in the wake of Governor Sarah Palin’s game-changing acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last night, the Obama campaign attacked Palin’s jibes at Obama’s thin resume as a local community organizer.
“Let’s clarify something for them right now,” [Barack Obama’s presidential Campaign Manager David] Plouffe said in his Wednesday night [campaign site] posting. “Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.”
Plouffe mentioned that community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women’s suffrage movement, and labor rights. “Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America’s promise by organizing for change from the bottom up,” he said.
The one thing Plouffe fails to mention, however, is how being a local community organizer and part of one of the most well-known corrupt political machines in American politics qualifies one to be President of the United States.
Plouffe accused the McCain campaign of employing “desperate lies and personal attacks” to earn a third term for “Bush policies that McCain has supported more than 90 percent of the time.”
Plouffe also made two requests for donations, one in the fourth paragraph and one at the end of his message, in the 13th paragraph.
After the fundamentals of this campaign changed in 36 minutes last night, the flailing from the Obama campaign sounds weak, tired and old.
