Commie-unity organizer

Ridiculing Obama for being a community organizer when he was a young man was a particularly chewy piece of red meat at last night's RNC. A telling line of attack given the overall theme of "service" and "country first." Nevertheless, the Dallas Morning News's Michael Lindauer wondered what were those "responsibilities" that Giuliani and Palin sneered he did not have.

It was made up of eight Catholic parishes when he got there and had one staff member. He was its director, meaning he was in charge. He made decisions about it, including staffing, budgets, etc. And when he left in 1988 to go to law school, he had grown its budget from $70,000 to $400,000, its staff from 1 to 13 people. More important, he created a job training program for this community and a college prep tutoring program.

As mayor, she built a hockey rink/rec center using eminent domain (because apparently there just isn't enough land in Alaska).

And keep in mind the timeline here: Obama did this as a young man BEFORE going to law school, becoming a successful lawyer and a law professor.

I am guessing that the Palin/McCain campaign will be the most fact-challenged/fact checked in history. Will it matter?