A first post should be cause for celebration. And yet I am about to start this blog off with a post dealing with spiteful comments. Specifically, I'm speaking of the comments during the RNC by Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani mocking Senator Obama's past service as a community organizer.
Despite Sarah Palin maintaining that the war in Iraq is "a task from God", her comments against Senator Obama run contrary to this religious compassion. In response to her comments against Senator Obama the Catholic Democrats released a statement to the press (which can be found at
http://time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/what_a_community_organizer_doe.html) stating that:
"Catholic Democrats is expressing surprise and shock that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's acceptance speech tonight mocked her opponent's work in the 1980s for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. She belittled Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's experience as a community organizer in Catholic parishes on the South Side of Chicago, work he undertook instead of pursuing a lucrative career on Wall Street. In her acceptance speech, Ms. Palin said, "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities." Community organizing is at the heart of Catholic Social Teaching to end poverty and promote social justice."
Trying to end poverty and promote social justice...definitely not Christian values, let alone admirable ones.
Continuing unnecessary violence...God would definitely approve of this...or so Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani would have you believe.
