Various RNC Botox Treatments: $2,200
Dress for your RNC Speech: $300,000
Nodding your head like you’re actually paying attention while holding a baby with Down’s syndrome: Priceless.

There’s a lot of punches that can be swung at Cindy McCain. She wouldn’t feel any of them, but there are a lot that could be thrown. Her speech Monday night, after she was waltzed out by Laura Bush was thinner than her husband’s hairline, paling in comparison to the other woman across the aisle vying for the same spot in the White House. But Cindy McCain and I agree on one thing: that Sarah Palin is wrong on the topic of abortion, as Mrs. McCain disagrees with Palin’s views on abortion in cases of rape and incest, and opposes Palin on the funding of sex-education classes. (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hW9DgefdzDY24fe3O9gJ5MvkhS9gD92VTI180 )

But that’s pretty much it. As Cindy McCain sat in the VIP bleachers last night with the adopted family she met less than a week ago, I could only cringe at the head-nodding and vacant smiles as the McCain attack dogs marched out in form. I shook my head as the untruths they spoke about their opponents gathered the sign-waving masses while they licked their chops and shouted, “Oh thank GOD! Someone is finally playing dirty!” It was the moment they had all been waiting for. Partisanship at last.

But that wasn’t what really bothered me.

What bothered me the most about last night wasn’t the outright lies that Mitt, Rudy, and the “Pit Bull” were slinging (please refer to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/ap-attacks-praise-stretch_n_123... for more information), but that they were mocking Obama’s role as a community organizer. Excuse me Mrs. Palin, but I don’t hear Obama criticizing the time you spent participating in beauty pageants or the your 1983 hairstyle (http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=b46_1220213471 ) during your botched sporting highlights on the local news. Has his campaign said you lack experience to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency? Yes. That’s because, Mrs. Palin, you do.

For the sake of argument, I’d like to refer the Republican delegation — especially Rudy and “The Barracuda” — to the Wikipedia entry on “Community Organizing.”

According to the most readily available source on the planet: “The American Civil Rights Movement, the anti-war movements, the Chicano movement, the feminist movement, and the gay rights movement all influenced and were influenced by ideas of neighborhood organizing. Experience with federal anti-poverty programs and the upheavals in the cities produced a thoughtful response among activists and theorists in the early 1970s that has informed activities, organizations, strategies and movements through the end of the century. Less dramatically, civic associations and neighborhood block clubs were formed all across the country to foster community spirit and civic duty, as well as provide a social outlet.”

The Civil Rights Movement? Well that was a joke, right Palin? How bout the feminist movement? Waste of time, right Rudy? To scoff and mock Obama’s career as a community organizer is insulting to the American people, the idea of democracy, and our nation. This reminds me of a story. There was once a group of community organizers — a very long time ago — who gathered together to stand up for what they believed. In the face of a tyrannical government who was unjustly taxing them, a group of wig wearing patriots (some of the names you may have heard of; Jefferson, Hancock, Franklin and Adams) planted the seeds for a revolution that would define the world as we know it today. Those community organizers convinced normal, everyday people, to take up arms in defense of their right to freedom. Those community organizers would draft the document that would begin, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Those words, written by the greatest speechwriters of our country’s history would shake the fabric of a nation, and build the world we have today. Words led to action then, Mrs. Palin. And they seem to be working now.

Check out the HBO Series John Adams, I believe it will be out on DVD soon, for a more detailed account of a community organizer. Until then, continue on with the failed Bush rhetoric and head into the media frenzy that you so smugly stirred last night in your speech. Believe me, those pit bulls don’t wear lipstick.