Civil Rights Group Fires Back at GOP for Ridiculing Community Organizing

By Louis Jacobson
CongressNow Staff
September 4, 2008, 8:07 p.m.

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama came under attack Wednesday night by several Republican convention speakers for his service as a community organizer in Chicago, including a zinger from GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who said, “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities.” Now, civil rights groups are fighting back.



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