At last week's convention, both Sarah Palin and Rudy 9iu11ani went out of there way to demean Barack Obama's record of community organizing -- indeed, they seemed to mock the very idea of grassroots movements aimed at uprooting the status quo. Today on ABC's This Week, Obama responded forcefully.

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"It's curious to me that they would mock that, when I, at least, think that that's exactly what young people should be doing.

"I worked with churches, who were dealing with steel plants that had closed in their neighborhoods, to set up job training programs for the unemployed and after-school programs for youth, and to try to deal with asbestos in homes with poor people -- community service work -- which John McCain has been talking about, putting country first and extolling the virtues of national service. I would think that's what we want all our young people to do. I would think that that's an area where Democrats and Republicans would agree." 

On Face the Nation this morning, Senator McCain was asked what he has against community organizing. 

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Heather writes:

When McCain is asked about Rudy and Sarah Barracuda mocking Obama being a community organizer, his excuse is that it was just her responding to them saying something about her being a mayor of a small town but of course he doesn't think it's a negative to be a community organizer. If he really thinks that, didn't he even have any control over his own convention?

Apparently not.

Keep the Frist away from my body!

Bill Frist revisited: from Dec 5th from This Week      

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George: You're a doctor. Do you think tears and sweat can transmit HIV"
Frist; I don't know...I can tell you..
George: You don't know?
Frist; I can tell you things like,like..condoms..
George: You believe that tears and sweat might be able to transmit aids?

This is the man who is sticking his nose in our personal/family decisions. I thought conservatives were for limited government. Peggy Noonan talks about the political implications if the republicans do nothing:  It is not at all in the political interests of senators and congressmen to earn the wrath of the pro-Schiavo group and the gratitude of the anti-Schiavo husband, by doing nothing."A human life isn't a political game.  Where were they a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, one month ago? This is a tragic story anyway one looks at it.

Direland has more: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist--in it, he made explicit a threat against Shiavo's doctors to have them prosecuted if they "obstructed" a Senate "investigation" of the Schiavo case by precluding her responding to an "invitation" to testify before a Senate committee...read on