Letters to the Editor
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Poor rufus1133.
He spelled Glenn incorrectly.
I believe humans can be wrong about much.
We have ignored vice and given war criminals oil lands. Theft.
We have treated wild animals and the Earth with little respect.
No wild beast will foul their own home-place or their children's future nesting Place.
It is foolish to assume we can escape poison air, water, and land that smells of a chemical oil rag when it's Plowed-Open each Spring. We plunder and rape. We People are so prone to smell bad with sour dispositions and spiel much ugly HATE.
If we will not admit certain mistakes and LIE to the grave,
or will not alter or recognize 'our' self-ruin-behavior styles of deceit, then, well,
'our' self-image has been, and will continue to be, a damn filthy smoke-screen. Screed.
Anybody can be "clever" and manipulative. A politico who LIES and kills is not too smart!
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Dems get it now
LibTex said that the dems haven't figured out the success of the right-wing. That the right-wing lays the ground work for their policies with the use of think tanks and right-wing radio. The dems may be late to the party but they do get it now. They are starting to fund liberal think-tanks and get progressive voices on the radio. Look at the success of Ed Schulz and Air America. Ed Schulz started his show with a loan from the democratic party. They have definetly had an impact on getting out a viewpoint opposed to the right. I think a large part of the electoral success in '06 was due to progressive radio and liberal blogs.
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Defeat trascism
I agree with Slackie@8:50, only in a more bipartisan way, that slime campaigns will be counterproductive this season. McCain has regularly worked with Senate Democrats on common policies, while Obama has famously called out the venality of contemporary politics. I expect both candidates to be hardhitting on the issues that divide them, but to distance themselves from slime initiatives, including those ostensibly done on behalf of their own campaigns.
The public is sick of this trash. Working together in this way, the candidates can help us turn the corner on the crass political culture that Glenn describes so well. Only if one of them tolerates such sleaze, in an apparant effort to benefit from it, will it turn on them, and thus be counterproductively effective.
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Don't forget
While we're speculating on how effective swiftboating will be against Obama, remember that for once "The terrorsts are coming - BOO!" failed to sway Ms. Pelosi into doing something rash and from what I can tell, the result has not yet been fatal to anyone's political prospects.
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The right wing circus
Once again, well said, Glenn. The haters, such as Hannity and Coulter are obvious, but the most dangerous are those who operate under the guise of objectivity -- the Halperins, Kurtzs, Russerts, etc.
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Kitt. thanks.
That's a pick-up trick.
Then when she/he turns around to appear real angry and smirk and say,
"Hey, I'm supposed to walk on my shoes, not you!"
You simply ask them for a date as you kneel down to help them put on the slipper.
Kitt?
I bet you did that and did this to a smirker?
Kiss!
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Left-wing smear campaigns...
I don't know who it was who was disputing the hanging of a flag by Obama volunteers in an Obama campaign office, but here it is, and it is quite clearly a "flag"; a Cuban national flag with a superimposed image of Che Guevara. (You remember Che -- doctor, revolutionary, murderer...)
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56293
And compare the reporting of that issue to the mighty kerfuffle over the sighting of a Confederate flag hung in an out-building by an unknown worker, at a private hunting club in upstate New York, where Vice President Cheney, as a visitor only, went hunting...
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/10/30/cheney-confederate-flag/
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OBAMA MAY BE "SWIFT-BOAT" PROOF
Glenn, I read your daily post today about the sad state of politics and the mainstream media. This has been the case for some time, and doesn't appear to have changed for this election year. Nevertheless, having been converted from a strong Edwards supporter (originally a "Run, Al, Run" supporter) to an Obama supporter, I am cautiously optimistic that Obama can rise beyond the daily "crap" that is being thrown his way. Contrary to the implication in your article that he has only had a "week" of crap thrown at him, the internet "side-show," with blatantly false stories being fed to the MSM via Drudge and other slimy bastards, has gone on for nearly a year. It was nearly a year ago that the Muslim Madrassas education story arose, about Obama being educated in a Madrassa. (read: Obama-loving school) Not only did that story not stick, there have been numerous others that have not stuck, either. Maybe, just maybe, the electorate has grown weary of the endless "side-show," and will finally listen to a real discussion of the issues that face us, rather than the "he said-she said" version of reporting has polluted our political discourse. As other posters have pointed out, the Democratic turnout is nearly double that of the Republicans. Even if some of the Democratic turnout reverts to McCain, Obama still can win with a substantial majority. People are finally exhausted by the constant drumbeat of RWNM crap, and are desperately yearning for something new and different.
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Brilliant article
I am so glad people are finally starting to wake up to the fact that Man-crush Matthews belongs in the same cess pool as Rush and Coulter. Thank you, Glenn, for affiming that.
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Obama represents a skeptical majority
First of all it must be noted that everybody complains about the media or negative campaigning with the subtext that we can see through the lies but everybody else cannot. We all have been inundated with political and commercial propaganda for our entire lives and most people have learned to tune it out. The minority that is seduced by thousands of contradictory messages to consume what they do not need and act on ideologies that are against to their own self interest are rendered helpless the resulting metabolic disorders and cognitive dissonance. Tuning that trash out is simply a function of survival.
The real purpose of negative campaigning is to drive prospective voters out of the process by increasing the sense that everyone involved is driven by cynical self-interest. But look at the pattern of public reactions to media narratives in the past ten years. It is what these events have in common: Bill Clinton’s continued popularity in the face of impeachment, Gore’s popular majority, the reversal of Bush’s post 9-11 popularity, Kerry’s near-victory in the face of wall to wall swiftboating and the ’06 democratic victories. Democratic participation has been steadily increasing despite an increasingly unified republican and media slime attack.
Obama apparently understands that dynamic; the more Clinton and McCain and the beltway media appeals to cynicism the more the public is attracted to Obama’s healthy skepticism. He is surfing a wave of revulsion to the status quo by bringing a skeptical majority into the process, not by trying to drive the cynical minority out of the process. They left long ago.