I Love the Smell of Hypocrisy
Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain will speak in New York City on September 11 at a non-partisan forum for public service, organizers said Wednesday.
The event is organized by “ServiceNation,” a coalition of about 100 organizations that aims to strengthen democracy by encouraging civic action and volunteer work.
Obama and McCain will speak separately “about their views on the role of citizenship and service in post-9/11 America,” the group said in a statement.
Last night, Sarah Palin said “I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening. We tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.”
I wonder if the sponsor, Be The Change, will be excited to learn just what Republicans like Rudy 9iu11iani, Sarah Palin, and John McCain say about community organizers “when they are listening” and what they say “when those people aren’t listening”?
Of course this is all par for the course: if there’s one thing the GOP loves to do, it’s using people as props, and then throwing them away when they’re no longer useful.
September 4th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Believe it or not, I received an email from Service Nation inviting me to attend. Unfortunately, it’s a Thursday and I’ll be watching Elliott so I won’t be able to go.
I’d love to otherwise.