A few months ago, I started using Facebook. A friend of mine who was the president of the College Republicans while I headed the campus chapter of the ACLU. We've both been posting various campaign-related articles and video clips on our respective Facebook pages.
Yesterday, he posted excerpts from Barack's appearance on WBEZ in 2001 that The Drudge Report, Fox News, and the McCain Campaign obsessed over. Without Bill Burton at my disposal, and in the spirit of the Obama Action Wire, I felt compelled to formulate my own response:
That's two Pinocchios for you.I just called the Philadelphia Police Department to let the cops know that your intellectual integrity is missing.
That's two Pinocchios for you.
I just called the Philadelphia Police Department to let the cops know that your intellectual integrity is missing.
Sarah Palin's self-exoneration regarding the dismissal of Walter Monegan deserves an award for chutzpah and creativity. I also find it inspiring.
Tonight, I have decided to clear myself of any wrongdoing I might have committed in my life. When I was routinely sent to the principal's office 25 years ago, I was the target of a partisan witch hunt. I would never have made any unsuccessful efforts to become class clown if my teachers had all agreed to hold weekly town hall debates with me. I would have never drunkenly slammed the door on the late pizza deliverer's face 15 years ago if I had imbibed better beer that night. Whenever I have gotten speeding tickets, I've been pulled over by xenophobic police officers who resent that I drive a Japanese car.
I've never done anything wrong, and nothing is my fault. Life is grand.
Last week, I inflated my tires.
Today, I had arugula in my sandwich.
I guess I hate America.
After watching John McCain's commercial blaming Barack Obama for high gas prices, I thought about what other bad things are clearly attributable to Barack.
Below I list the first ten that came to mind:
Cross-posted from The Back FortyWhy yes, John McCain. That's a fantastic idea.Get on stage with a young, brilliant, charismatic, eloquent debater who has shown he can hold his own, and rock the stage on more than one occasion. Engage in a debate with someone who was right on the very issue you have based your candidacy on - Iraq - the very issue that 70% of the American people disagree with you on.Then do it over and over again.You must have some really smart cookies managing your campaign.I don't know how the Obama campaign will be able to stand up to the brilliance.
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Interesting article on the Nation about the source and tenacity of right-wing smear emails: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071112/hayes/single
The incredible thing is that they do not die. These things get forwarded and forwarded around, even though both the sender and recipient have probably heard on the TeeVee that they are provably untrue.
Bush benefitted greatly from these in 2000 and 2004, of course. We all saw the lies about Kerry, and you may have noticed that some of them were recycled from the 2000 campaign against Gore with the names change to defile the innocent. But did you ever get the positive ones? I got a couple. Apparently he healed a serviceman in Walter Reed with his salute, and got off his campaign bus to fix a young mother's flat tire out in Texas.
SO. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to make up stories about how Barack Obama has touched your life, or better yet, the life of an imaginary someone in your town. Here are some ideas to get you started:
Thoughts?
Did anyone else see the irony of Hillary putting out an ad saying she should be the one to answer the call about an economic crisis when she can't even manage the money of her own campaign?
We all know that the Clinton camp has had a hard time paying the bills since Iowa (bankrupt from state one) so we did a spoof on her new economic 3 am ad.
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPIt7Sv_blE
Then comment, favorite, send to a friend...you know the drill.
We need to change the narrative that the Clintons are the authority on economic policy.
I hope these words do not offend anyone, and hope they do not change anyone’s mind about supporting Barack Obama, but I need to get this out into the open, and hope you will all keep it our ‘big’ little secret.
We have had many candidates for President that had enormous intelligence, sharp intellects, and where very ‘bright’ people; but the average American voters – for reasons of their own – have never highly considered intelligence, as a pre-requisite to hold office (please see GW Bush.) In fact some may consider intelligence as a weakness; a ‘nerdy’ egg headedness as it where. For many, an intelligent candidate is somehow outside of their cultural norm, something they just do not connect with. That feeling of ‘yes I like what he / she stands for, but he / she is not elect able because they are too darn smart’ or ‘he’s a book worm with no common sense’
So, as was reading this article today, and reading this article yesterday and knowing he has had some of the best education this country has to give, I began too wonder if his intelligence is going to go – you know – mainstream, and another way to attack him. Given the attacks upon him since the Potomac Primaries, and the ridiculous assertions by the HRC campaign, anything is possible; ‘Barack Obama is just too damn smart to be President.’ Well I have heard ‘dumber’ things recently. Have you?
Of course I am just being a little ‘Snarky;’ but if you are wondering why just about every newspaper, intellectual think tank, military organization and the university educated crowd are flocking to him; well look no further than his intelligence and intellect. BUT, please, please keep this our ‘big,’ little secret. Remember, he just gives a speech – OK.
Oh! And Michele Obama – YEP pretty darn smart too, but shhhhush......
And where we are met with cynicism and doubt and fear and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of the American people in three simple words:
