Letters to the Editor
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The tactic to use? The accuser becomes the accused.
Holy Toledo the right-wingers are weak. Barrack would be "accused" for wearing winged-tipped shoes if they were two-left feet-shoes?
The GOP are ridiculed the world over for arrogance.
The GOP have not a iota of what use to be a virtue.
Where is a bit of what use to be considered a quality? Meek.
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He should just say, "Imshee?" I read that's Aramaic : Go Away!
The neoconservative is more and more viewed as a cheap deejay.
Next they may say baby Moses saw Obama changing a bush's diaper on Mount Mckinley?
He quotes Kit Carson, Davy Crockett, and stores in his old shoe-boxes, scraps of Potato Peels?
So what if he has in the shoe box a photo-Memory of a circus ride for just 25-cents of him sitting aloft a polka dot Shetland pony?
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I just got here.
Hope that was not corny.
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Barrack did speak in Toledo about jobs sent overseas. The Wa/Po calls that "green collar."
I felt bad for Miss P. to read the American Standard Plumbing factory sent factory jobs to India. Ohio's Plastic Technology factory makes laundry and soda products and moved to China.
P.S. W.T. ought to start up a slab wood outhouse industry? Those slimy GOPS can sit and test the slab-wood privy company's wood built product out? Let them critters sit, stew, and [s] think?
I hope to not be too cranky today as Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street. I gotta see a doc.
Oscar eats from a garbage dumpster on TV.
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But what about the current "smear photo"?
Today on Drudge, there is an article linking to a piece by Politico's Mike Allen in which the Obama campaign's response to a photo, allegedly circulated by the Clinton campaign, is set out.
The photo, which shows Obama dressed as a Somali elder, represents "shameful...fear-mongering", according to Obama campaign manager David Plouffe.
But doesn't this essentially "buy into" the premise that underlies the distribution of such a photo in the first place? Shouldn't the response have pointed out that the Clinton campaign apparently thinks this photo carries with it negative connotations, but that the Obama campaign doesn't?
Even Drudge, in his report, points out (with accompanying photos, including Bush) that leaders often dress according to local custom whilst visiting another country).
That it may have been intended as fear-mongering by the Clinton campaign is surely the better point to be made here. To acknowledge it as fear-mongering simply reinforces and confirms the negative stereotype that is being exploited.
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Let 'em Know We've Got Their Back
Politicians have well hewn survival skills, and will default to positions they deem will keep them in office.
Steny Hoyer is a case in point. He finally stood up to the Republican bullies on FISA and has begun punching back. He's earned my respect on that one, after a long record of capitulation on Iraq.
Bush is on the tube as I type this, rattling the fear saber on FISA once again. That would have been unthinkable even a few weeks ago.
The longer the fear mongers have to stand under the klieg lights spewing and sputtering, the faster their makeup melts and the public gets to see what ugly s.o.b.s they really are.
Gobama.
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I can't WAIT for this!!
I've said it before: Chicago's culture of improv and retort is in Obama's blood. He's going to swat these punkass wannabes down and it's going to be beautiful!
BRING IT ON.
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Big Tuna
How about those little round tuna fish?
Nature makes them perfectly round for tin cans.
The best brand is Bumble Bee in plain 'ole water?
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Obama gets it
What a refreshing response. I also was more than pleased that Obama not only refuted the accusations but showed just how deficient in patriotism his accusers are. Including the Constitution and warrantless wiretapping in the response nearly took me over the top.
By the way, the "reporter" referred to in the CNN story is Jake Tapper of ABC. Here is a link to his transcript of the exchange and in it is a link to his full story:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/qa-with-bho.html
It's quite clear that it will take a lot more than these simple smears to affect Obama. For all the talk about his "bipartisanship", he sure showed a wonderful instinct on this one for going on the attack when it is called for.
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@Reality Kid
Thanks for pointing that out to us.
Can I call these desperate and hypocritical attacks from the Clinton camp "shrill" without being lynched yet? I mean, really. This is fucking pathetic.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashoa.htm
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Patriotism Can Be Flag-Thin
Patriotism is an "-ism" just like any other "-ism" (Humanism, Communism, Racism, Sexism, Socialism, Capitalism, etc...). Subscription to any "-ism" usually demands that the subscriber focus attention on one set of ideologially correct values and put on blinders that prevent one from critically engaging any challenges to said "-ism."
When patriotism is judged not by one's actions, but by one's disiplay of "patriotic" symbols, patriotism becomes as thin as the flags the patriots wave.
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Not To Bring Up Elections Past, But...
I think it was 1992 when James Carville ran Bill Clinton's campaign on the adage that "It's hard for your opponent to say bad things about you when your fist is in his mouth."
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While I like Obama's response
I think that all the rest of the Democratic establishment, starting with Senator Clinton, President Clinton, and extending to congressional leaders and Howard Dean and every other patriotic American should be howling for Kristol's blood and demanding a retraction.
Not an apology. A retraction.
Also CNN for that reprehensible poll asking
Does Barack Obama show the proper patriotism for someone who wants to be president of the United States?
Let's not let the scum denigrate Obama's patriotism the way they denigrated Kerry's war wounds and Purple Heart with those snobbish band aids.
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this is why i like obama
he is not ashamed of his liberal positions. it's about time a promenant democrat showed conviction.
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Curt, clear, concise.
Glenn - good work on your writing style: less redundant, less florid, cogent as always.
Good catch on this item in particular.
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Republicans and Democrats-- The One-Two Party
Unfortunately too many people believe the Democrats were too dumb to say the things Obama just said. Great plausible deniability.
Democrats laid low, allowing Republicans their agenda full bloom-- Democrats get to blame the Republicans AND get to gain from the tools the Republicans put into place unopposed.
NOW one of their own comes out a 'hero' by uttering those very thoughts many Americans have already been saying for years.
Pure genius of a demented sort.
It makes it look like there are two legitimate parties, as they stand down each other while the police state agenda is rolled in in front of our eyes.
Now Obama comes out the hero, taking the reins of this very police state and acting like he and his party had nothing to do with it.
And so the illusion of two distinct parties persists and there is no threat to the continued hegemony.
And people are too stupid to hold the Democrats feet to the fire over them not uttering those 'Obama' thoughts in 2001. No wonder we are constantly on the verge of unspeakable warfare on this planet when most peole are forgiving imbeciles.