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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
fresh off of watching Sarah Palin rip Barack Obama's face off using the most intense forms of derision and condescension
What reality do you live in? Hardly any of her speech attacked Obama and it was pretty mild: digs at his lack of experience and the columns at the convention. That's "the most intense forms of derision and condescenson"? Do you remember Bush's characterization of McCain as a ticking time bomb of post-traumatic-stress rage?
And how is Obama claiming that McCain means well but "just doesn't get it" not condescending?
I mean, this is politics. Neither of these barbs can be looked at as a mean-spirited smear. It's just the self-assurance of each party that they are right, the opposition is wrong, and if people will just pay attention it will all be clear.
The left's antagonism towads Palin baffles me. And I'm an Obama supporter.
What I find more interesting, and what I see no one discussing, is the way Obama is still clearly (and to me, happily) controlling the discussion. Indeed, the Republicans seemed to be falling all over themselves eager to show that they, too, are outsiders, they, too, buck the system. That they, too, were, essentially, Obama. It was wonderful. And the whole Republican convention cheering when McCain was defined as an outsider, when the Republican Party is the bastion of insiders, was beautiful.
I don't see Palin as vicious, but I don't worry about her, either. I think people will see who's the real deal.
First you make it sound as if Democrats are letting themselves get attacked over and over again, and you seem to be suggesting they're doing something wrong. Then later on you say that if Dems were to make personal attacks, it would be a "stupid strategy."
So what exactly are you saying? And what would you have Dems do differently?
A blog from someone who knows Ms. Palin:
http://www.thepresidentialcandidates.us/about-sarah-palin-a-letter-from-anne-kilkenny/741/
Obviously, it's to be taken with a grain of salt (or to be completely disregarded becasue she is a "babe," can shoot a Moose and didn't kill her kid. The resident trolls have actually gotten worse since the Palin pick. It's unbelievable). Nonetheless, it's very interesting.
Perhaps he just is a Republican. He does slimy stuff and then accuses other people of it even as we can all see the real truth in front of us. Hmmmmm. I think that is it. After all, he tries his damnedest to make Glenn's bog look bad via his crap. -- heru-ur
If Sinnard is a Libertarian (big L) and follows their social/economic philosophy then he and I are not on the same page. Even so, I think he and Bucky have been proven correct about who and what LWM is.
I don't think LWM would call himself a Republican at the moment but all it might take for him to make the switch is for the Democratic party to be taken over by a truly left-libertarian leaning philosophy. In his mind, he is as "left" as is acceptable. He once announced that he was a "liberal gatekeeper" and then, in almost the same breath, explained how he had a direct line to the current Governor of California (as if that was supposed to give him credibility). He has shown time and again he wants nothing to do with civil libertarians if they are not toeing his "Democrats are the answer" party line. I don't know what the proper label is, but I call him insidious. He is the faux liberal. The incrementalist, status-quo-is-better-than-real-change, authoritarian centrist. Whatever he is, he isn't "left" of much and he is certainly not "liberal."
RMP --
I wasn't planning on sending you something tonight. But if you saw what I saw from the Republican convention, you know that it demands a response.
I saw John McCain's attack squad of negative, cynical politicians. They lied about Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and they attacked you for being a part of this campaign.
But worst of all -- and this deserves to be noted -- they insulted the very idea that ordinary people have a role to play in our political process.
You know that despite what John McCain and his attack squad say, everyday people have the power to build something extraordinary when we come together. Will you make a donation of $25 or more right now to remind them?
Both Rudy Giuliani and Sarah Palin specifically mocked Barack's experience as a community organizer on the South Side of Chicago more than two decades ago, where he worked with people who had lost jobs and been left behind when the local steel plants closed.
Let's clarify something for them right now.
Community organizing is how ordinary people respond to out-of-touch politicians and their failed policies.
And it's no surprise that, after eight years of George Bush, millions of people have found that by coming together in their local communities they can change the course of history. That promise is what our campaign has been about from the beginning.
Throughout our history, ordinary people have made good on America's promise by organizing for change from the bottom up. Community organizing is the foundation of the civil rights movement, the women's suffrage movement, labor rights, and the 40-hour workweek. And it's happening today in church basements and community centers and living rooms across America.
Meanwhile, we still haven't gotten a single idea during the entire Republican convention about the economy and how to lift a middle class so harmed by the Bush-McCain policies.
It's now clear that John McCain's campaign has decided that desperate lies and personal attacks -- on Barack Obama and on you -- are the only way they can earn a third term for the Bush policies that McCain has supported more than 90 percent of the time.
But you can send a crystal clear message.
Enough is enough. Make your voice heard loud and clear by making a $25 donation right now:
https://donate.barackobama.com/changevideo
Thank you for joining more than 2 million ordinary Americans who refuse to be silenced.
David Plouffe
Campaign Manager
Obama for America
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