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It isn't about the word bitter. It's about insulting the red States again, as if Wright's charming commentary wasn't bad enough.
But Obama is all rhetorirical games. One example is repetition. Change, yes we can, new politics, repeated non stop with massive help from the msm. It hypnotises the public, and they don't notice that the new politics are Clinton retreads like healthcare, fiscal restraint, and bipartisanship, the only policies giving him credibility; old liberal cliches like camapign finance reform, which has a snowball's chance; and silly fantasies like converting the red States, presumably with Reverend Wright and Bittergate.
The public weren't taught rhetoric and are easily manipulated by it. They won't miss the brilliant speeches and press conferences of the Clinton / Gore team. Bill and Al are the most knowledgeable on any subject and a delight to hear. Hillary is more timid about it, this culture being less forgiving toward bold women. But I will so miss their beautifully precise and flawless reasoning. Compare that to Obama's vague ramblings filled with abstractions, bad causality, and illogic.
Gore and the Clintons are true intellectuals, and it was so sweet having them in office. Their policies were greater than anything we had seen and are taken for granted even today. They reversed the damages of three republican admins, turned deficit into surplus, created a massive economic boom, and improved almost every stat in the book. But of course the media always attack our strongest leaders. And we're being given someone far less knowledgeable who mistakes rhetoric for reality.
convince anyone except his young worshippers. If he denounces Wright, he either didn't know who he was friends with for 20 years or he was just using him for politcal purposes. If he defends him, that opens a horibble can of worms.
I'm just scared we could loose the ge because of this. We have a ton of political capital just now. But this Wright business and Obama's insults of rural religion and lifestyle are pretty bad. And his supporters won't let go. If the far left cost us another election, I'll join the Wiggs and have done with it.
but you have to be smart enough to recognize it.
The bigger issue is how corporate media and the Obama camp have replaced policy debate and adult conversation with name calling and shallow insults.
As Darth Vader would say, the circuit is now complete, and the whole of the media is now a marketing campaign for The Obama. The New Yorker does an Obama puff piece every week. And everywhere you look, it's the same idiotic spin: finding noble pupose in his every move and sinister intent at the least mention of Hillary.
Who's responsible? The media is. If they can't have another puppet, they'll accept a naive poser with a bag of rhetorical tricks. They set the tone at the start with an anti Clinton smear campaign dumber than ever. The young set joined in like there was no tomorrow. And months later, we've just noticed? Please.
the Clinton's vast knowledge, flawless reasoning, and spectacular governing record blow Obama out of the water. Please. He doesn't have the brains to make policy. His 'new politics' are old liberal cliches, credit he's taken for other's legislation, and Clinton retreads. And he can't even get those right. He adopts healthcare reform without making it universal. He steals Clinton bipartisanship, then insults the red States with Wright's charming commentary and lines about bitter lifestyles and religion. He talks about taking the high road, then throws the good Reverend under a mac truck. And his one word slogans of 'hope', 'change', and 'believe' are more shallow than Bush's 'compassionate conservatism', and possibly Nader's 'proportional representation'.
We need the Clintons now more than ever, to fix the economy, which they've already done brilliantly, and deal with two wars strategically.
Despite our mass of political capital, it's starting to look like Obama could actually loose the ge. Even if he did win, his ignorance would show up real quick, and we'd loose the congress, then the presidency. It's not clear that the party could recover in our lifetime. That doesn't matter to his worshippers. The far left live in a dream world and don't care about the damage they do. To this day, Nader's Traiters have not admitted their role in putting Bush in office. If Obama melt's down, they'll just find someone else to blame. I'm guessing Hillary's third cousin's butcher's wife, who bought a new watch and betrayed the tinkers union for a loaf of designer bread, which brought the entire party crashing down.
Beyond all that, if I have to listen to five more years of Obama's shallow rhetoric, and his supporters childish insults, I'll join the Wigs and have done with it.
cherry pick the Clinton's failures since forever. The greatest governing record of our time seems to make them feel inferior, hence the need for misdirection.
There was no way Hillary could have gotten the votes of black people. They adored the Clintons for years, and in five minutes, they went for an unknown black man. Even asking why was labelled as racist.
But I can guess why. Black folk have put up with a ton of cruelty in this country, and they want one of their own in the presidency, no matter how much less qualified he is.
To me, it's disappointing. My people have suffered. Try having your love life stolen before you're an adolescent, and see how you like it. But I would never vote for an unqualifed queer, even with legs like Keannu, a face like Steve Carrel, and voice like Keannu.