Community Organizer has become the new joke punch line.

Community Organizer has become the new joke punch line.

With one deft quip, Sarah Palin punctured one of the bubbles that have inflated the empty Hussein candidacy.

“Before I became governor of the great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown,” Sarah Palin said. “And since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to them what the job involves.

“I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities,”

Now suddenly the Hussein campaign is minimizing what he once proudly proclaimed: his time spent as a “community organizer.”

Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004 and to the Illinois State Senate in 1996. But he often cites his days as a community organizer, prior to his matriculation at Harvard Law School, as evidence that he understands the concerns of everyday Americans.

"When I listen to another worker tell me that his factory has shut down," Obama said at last week's Democratic National Convention, "I remember all those men and women on the South Side of Chicago who I stood by and fought for two decades ago after the local steel plant closed."

One question for Hussein: how did your standing by them work out for those workers, Senator?