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thanks for the hannity/limpballs updates, busyboy.
what would we do without you?
News mutts are the ones ruining this, by dutifully recording and constantly talking about the fluff, and acting as if the substance is fluff.
They eat the icing, not the cake.
Yesterday for the first time I saw a McCain bumper sticker. The first one! Obama signs and stickers are everywhere.
If McCain should somehow win in November it will be by stealth voters who are playing their cards incredibly close to their chests.
I'll admit I have anxieties that somehow McCain will win. Then I talk to other people. No one wants a third Bush Cheney term with McCain as the figure head.
I expect when, I stop being anxious, that there is going to be a blow out in November for the Democrats across the board.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,859...
Our dear corporate media, as hundred if not thousands of citizens predicted, remains a larger pest for progressives.
The daily onslaught of pundit BS and incomplete reporting takes a toll on less corporate-media-savvy minds.
For example in today's 7am hour CNN led with "McCain's new one, two punch", interviewed GOP surrogates and played a lengthy cut of yesterday's Johnny stump...There was no Obama reporting: he was mentioned in a tag out of the "punch" lead.
The cheap, non-union clowns at MSTIM spent the hour replaying Kate Snow's recent Bill Clinton pout, working the Dem disharmony meme.
Over and over, day in and day out the giggly and emotionally needy corporate media, self and celebrity-blinded on most occasions, rallies for their corporate bottom line by pushing the failed Bush/McCain recipe for a fascist empire.
This sneaky stratigery, in some ways more subtle than Anne Kornbuth and Nedra Pickler's (two name just two) actions against Gore, Dean or Kerry, relies on constant repetition and viewer ignorance, what has been called TVboarding, for a success that hasn't quite happened yet.
Chances loom large for a traumatic and spinable major TV event before November...
It's fine that Obama doesn't want a link to that kind of negativity, but it's about time people pumped that negativity out there. How about some real anti-McCain action from people not connected to Obama?
How about we let everyone know that McCain dumped his wife who stood by him while he was a POW, perhaps because she had become disabled, for a wealthy heiress? [Voice over: "In sickness and in health? Not for McCain. For him it is: In health or in wealth."]
He wears $520 shoes and has too many houses to count and profited from the sale of our beer company to foreigners. He supposedly believes in the importance of marriage and yet hides behind the illusion that his current wife's wealth and possessions don't make him a ridiculously wealthy, too.
So many people have made little internet videos showing McCain contradicting himself or otherwise looking bad. Why not buy some TV time and put those clips on the air?
Well, it's a big secret, see? So that the Republicans won't know what hit them. But here's a hint: Obama's such hot shit that he doesn't need anyone to understand his strategy, see? We're all just his bitches and we should just lay back and enjoy watching him sweep to victory. I get it; why doesn't anyone else?
This whole thing reminds me of labor troubles...Most citizens want a union while the corps attempt to bribe, thug and goon their roughshod way over us all...They only had all the 20th century to practice...
Stop taking the high road.
McSame has enough retard ammunition laying around that you can pick up and use and still be truthful. You don't need to go Karl Rove and make shit up, but you can USE WHAT IS ALREADY THERE WITH ALL THE FORCE AT YOUR DISPOSAL.
Stop pussying out, and ram it down his throat, Obama! Stop letting Kyle Rove DEFINE THE CAMPAIGN AND BY PROXY, YOU.
God, it's infuriating to watch this shit repeat itself over and over, election through election, and watch the same people NOT LEARN A THING.
Listen Obama: you are not such a golden boy that Karl Rove can't knock you down and throw this election to McTard. Know that. It's not a hit on you, it's an acknowledgement of Rove's skills.
He IS skilled. Do NOT count on the American public to see through his shit. They didn't twice before, they won't now.
Realize that.
The Judgement of Paris reveals an interesting course...I urge Brad Pitt and fellow northern Kentuckian George Clooney to grab their silver heels, pool loungers and web cams to give Johnny another celebrity headache.
As far as the balance of the Party bigwigs not standing up for Obama, well I think they all have their collective heads up their collective arse's, but that is hardly news. I would love to see the Dem's finally grow some bollocks and hit back against the Republicans in kind, but I'm afraid that isn't going to happen any time soon. It's depressing...
Team McStain, as Team McStain and the pundit corp. keep repeating, hasn't gone negative merely humorous (wink, wink) and laying in wait for an attack to counter...This is what made Ms. Hilton's ad so delicious. Hilton reduced Johnny to a crypt-keeper "from olden days" (and just try shaking that word picture) and failed to gift Team McStain with a viable target for return fire.
If there's a problem with the Obama campaign it is that Mr. Obama seems to be out there all by his lonesome (discounting the thousands of screaming, loyal voters).
Any other willing celebs hankering for massive coverage as they slam Johnny's fascist hypocrisy??? Mr. Pitt and Mr. Clooney maybe...They were fast off the dime with a "wide stance" video.
Doesn't have to be a celeb...A pop icon would do as well...Say, Hello Kitty attacks Johnny or an animated spot with Mr. Obama as The Dark Knight and Johnny as Two-Face...
Most folks, even here, are watching too much corporate toob and subconsciously adopting many of their concepts.
Give some support for your unsupported allegations.
Also, its worth noting that long term readers are aware of this guy's abysmal predictive skills.
" Push him back, push him back, waaaayyyyy back!"
CNN's morning lead was McStain's "new one, two punch"
How many new one, two punches has Johnny failed to connect with so far???
The public, domestic and world, is tired of the cheap faux intelligent slapstick in Washington and yearns for polite, firm, diplomatic and most importantly effective leadership...if it happens to have an air of fresh, exciting newness or rebirth as well we are twice blessed.
I understand your concern and in some ways I'm concerned too. I agree the Obama campaign should have come out with an ad using Phil Gramm's words against John McCain but all the press would do is claim that Obama is going negative first.
I think that Dems are panicking because we have LOST over and over again so it's hard to have any hope. If you recall, when Bill Clinton was running, he basically shut out D.C. in his campaign and there was much of the same rumblings in that no one thought that he could really win.
I honestly think this is going to be like 1980 where after the convention (which from what I hear Obama WILL be attacking McCain unlike Kerry's convention) and the debates his poll numbers will dramatically increase.
Does this mean I'm going to let my guard down? Of course not but I think most of the concern is that Dems are so tired of losing they have a hard time believing that we can win.
You can not only run half a campaign but this has always been the Democratic game plan. The public gets half the story and the Republicans succeed. It should bother your little wimp head that we are not further ahead at this point in the game. After all, this should be a blow out. .
You cite to Bill Clinton who shut out DC. Yes and he ran a very negative campaign as well as providing hope and progress. He shut out weak kneed idiots who thought that we could turn the other cheek while being hit with a sledge hammer.
Ness: Anything within the law.
Malone: And then what are you prepared to do? If you open the can on these worms you must be prepared to go all the way. Because they're not gonna give up the fight, until one of you is dead.
Ness: I want to get Capone! I don't know how to do it.
Malone: You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone. Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?
--"Are you ready to do that?" [i.e., treat people decently?]
Remember Obama's for changing the broken fear-based political game...A game attack would provide the pundits and Team McStain with fresh, screamable ammo.
I'm all for Obama attacking as he just did in his energy spot...Fact and issue-based attacks levened with Mr. Obama's humor and wit.
Laughing at Johnny with get the best results.
I am so. damned. sick. and. tired. of watching good Democratic candidates go down in flames because they've forgotten how to fight!
I hope she doesn't have to say, "I told you so," or if she does, that she does it with grace.
HRC messed up big time...clear sight marred by the approach of coronation.
Plus...I do hate an overabundance of generic devil's advocates wishing and hoping the worst won't happen…watched pots do eventually boil and Schrödinger's cat will die but let’s allow it on our terms.
And interestingly, I just went back to some of the Americablog archives to pull up some posts to prove my point, and they've apparently all been scrubbed! But I remember some very harsh attacks along the lines of "Why doesn't the bitch just drop our already?"
I thought those comments were childish and mean-spirited, and I guess John A. must have thought better of them also, because I sure can't find them now. But they were definitely on this website and on DailyKos, NOT on the mainstream media sites.
And, oh yes the mean stuff that so upsets your delicate mind came from the corporate media...Ordinary free citizen venting (partially media fueled) are some mighty small potatoes to hand your toque…
My entire point, which you have just proved beautifully, is that we Democrats always get into a circular firing squad. The Republicans almost never beat up on each other as savagely as we do.
I am not that crazy about Hillary, but at this point, I honestly believe the only winning strategy is to get her on the ticket.
And this is the last time I will respond to someone who makes personal attacks on me. I have not, and will not, do that to you.
I do declare, Ashley, Twelve Oaks is lookin a little tired!
Didn't really expect a response from you, but thanks......
I searched several weeks' worth of archives and couldn't find any of the
posts I had remembered, but apparently my search skills ARE lacking.
As for Hillary, I still think that for someone of her stature (former First
Lady, current Senator, first woman with a realistic chance to win the
Democratic nomination....not to mention the huge number of votes she
received), she was treated disrepectfully and unprofessionally. And just
because one person occasionally sinks lower than we might like, that doesn't
mean we need to sink to his or her level. Much better to take the high road
and hit hard with legitimate criticisms, not petty name-calling.
Over and out....
If she holds such sway over her 18 mil. followers, why doesn't she ask them each to send 1.35 so that she can retire her debt?
well as Independents ("soccer moms," if you will) who will not vote for
Obama or are scared of Obama or who feel threatened by Obama who will be
reassured by Hillary being on the ticket. This is still a racist country,
whether you want to admit it or not, and that's the reason Obama isn't
blowing McCain out in the polls.
Will they pick the embittered, stooped, eldery, divorced and remarried man or the brilliant mind of a man in his prime and blessed with the only beloved and beautiful family unit to carry his name?
You're talking PRIMARIES....Crap that started with pundit focus on white Mississippi's Democratic voters...freakin Mississippi deep, deep in Dixie.
I actually feel sorry for you Busboy...all alone here 24/7...pitiful...scary how someone could absorb as much media as you obviously do with so little understanding of the larger picture.
They will pick the incompetent old republican white guy over the maybe brilliant but certainly uppity elitist liberal intellectual schvartzer unless our guys start kicking some butt. You cannot answer a Rove-inspired campaign of lies, innuendo, and appeals to the reptile brain by being all above the fray.
and:
"weren't we saying the same thing about Obama during the primaries? That he wasn't hitting back hard enough? We saw how that finished, right?"
Yes, absolutely. But that was a very different battle. We've seen time and again how Democrats can wipe the floor with other Democrats in the primaries but fade in the general election because they are completely unprepared for the ferocity and amorality of the GOP buzzsaw.
I'm still longing for Democrats who can campaign like FDR or Truman. Obama's better than the usual, but in general Democrats still remind me so much of bullied school kids that I cringe in embarrassment.
All designed to undermine Dems without appearing to.
Hillary and Bill are good at that too.
John Kerry and Al Gore were "pretty boys" ?
http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/after-mcc...
I almost feel bad for Obama, having to try to juggle so many chainsaws at once. I can't imagine what it must be like trying to get a party of shear and utterly undisciplined people to fall in line and move in one direction. The problem isn't Obama, never has been, the problem is the Democratic party from top to bottom doesn't know how to put aside personal ego for the larger goal. The GOP does it with striking efficiency. For whatever reason, Democrats have decided it is better to lose and have the "moral high ground" than it is to ocassionally put your own personal beliefs on hold and win. In other words, you can't affect change if like-minded (or at least receptive) people aren't in positions of power.
Obama isn't and shouldn't turn this into a slugfest, all it will do is satisfy the visceral desire for revenge by some in our party, give the GOP a rallying cry they don't really have now, and give the MSM tons of meat for the 24 hour cycle. Admittedly, the path to victory is harder taking the higher ground, but Obama is married to that path because its the major thing that's gotten him this far, a perception of being not just another Washington politician. If Obama goes ultra negative tomorrow does anyone think he'll be able to maintain the voting segments that support him now? If this degenerates into a back and forth gotcha match all the way until November I predict people will simply lose interest and stay home on election day. The only folks who will be happy is the far left who will have their bloodlust for revenge satiated and the far right because they will have been able to bamboozle the electorate yet again into electing an idiot to run this country. Let's be real, if both candidates get covered in mud, people lose the motivation to support the "new-young-black-guy" and will almost assuradly go for the known, albeit flawed, McBush.
Also, putting clinton on the ticket won't do a darn thing, sorry to burst peoples bubble. Clinton pretty much created this fiasco when she turned the primaries into a moratorium on gender equality and media influence. Did she have some legitimate points, probably, but the biggest effect of it is that she utterly and completely polarized a small but vocal segment of the Dem base in such a way that they would accept nothing else but her in the lead position or it would be seen as "the system" keeping her down. We see it now that even though Clinton is calling for her "supporters" to put party over personality, there are some who are resisting.
I think one MSM talking head said it best when he said that the Democrats seem to be able to do nothing more than complain about the problems of the world, but don't appear to have the will to fight to change them, or to know when to fight which battles. So again, I feel kind of bad for Obama having to herd all the cats that make up the myriad ideological divides within the party, and at this point my only advice to him is to do what he thinks is right, because failing that, I'm sure he's getting an earful from all the different segments who all think they know how to win (yet our party has produced only 2 Presidents in the last 32 years).
Push a new concept and everyone's a devil's advocate.
Be successful with that concept and suddenly you've had loyal fans forever...
I hope none of those Clinton strategists are anywhere near Obama's campaign high command.
Obama does not have this election in the bag. Considering the economy, an unpopular war, widespread dislike for Bush and a petty, cranky old man carrying the Republican banner, Obama should have a double digit lead.
If Obama doesn't come out of Denver with a big bounce and holds it into the post-Labor Day campaign stretch McCain could pull this off. It might not take much more than a terrorist attack against U. S. interests overseas.
Please provide links that list paid Kerry staffers and current paid Obama staffers.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...
There isn't a Democratic Strategist alive who has won a Presidential campaign in 12 years.
Who the hell cares what the "consultant class" thinks?