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• Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:12 AM

  perpetuating republican talking points

  Obama began his entire campaign by perpetuating republican talking points:

  1. Obama began dividing Democrats initially by calling Hillary 'Divisive' and himself a 'Uniter'. She had "baggage" and everybody has an uncle who would never vote for her in a million years. She's considered "the establishment" while he is "change".

  2. He conflates Hillary to be not much different than Bush, as if her as president means that she will just continue many of Bush's policies, governing abilities and manner of style.

  3. In the meantime his stance on Iraq has been called "a fairytale" and voting for him is a "rolling of the dice". Sometimes one of Clinton's surrogates make veiled comments about his past drug use.

  Now we know that Hillary will be far, far, far left of Bush and will represent fundamental change just in terms of philosophical and ideological principles alone. Yet Obama allowed these charges to go forward as a message that he wanted to convey.

  I can't think of a bigger smear than what Obama has leveled on Hillary from the commencement of his campaign: that she is like Bush, and he is not. And in the meantime, he has allowed many of the negative characteristics of Hillary persistently pushed by the republicans, to stand clear and present that she is "not likeable enough", leading to his condescending remark to Hillary about being, "likeable enough".

  I believe any three of these candidates will bring transformational change to the white house. Hell, look who we are kicking out!! But instead, people like fetboy pursue these anti-Hillary characterizations and will put faith in their accuracy as if any major message by the republican party has any credibility.

  Jesus, Dems. Look at who started the whisper campaign. Can you believe it's true after everything they've sold us?

  Once you realize that you're handily dividing the Democratic party by perpetuating republican talking points and demonizing Hillary so much, perhaps then you can see that Obama is far from being a saint in this race.

  —juneausmog Read juneausmog's other letters
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