Filed under: One Choice: Obama | Tags: Barack Obama, campaign lies, John McCain, Sarah Palin
Check out this post at MSNBC’s First Read. Apparently Palin said yesterday, during a speech in Carson City, Nev.’s Pony Express Pavilion, “I told Congress thanks but no thanks to that Bridge to Nowhere — that if our state wanted to build that bridge, we would build it ourselves.”
Repeat a lie over and over, it becomes gospel truth. — Chapter 1, The Rovian Doctrine
When Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki got on stage he said there were 10,000 people in the crowd, according to the MSNBC report. Problem is, the Pavilion holds just 3,500.
Americans don’t do math well. — Chapter 2, The Rovian Doctrine
Filed under: One Choice: Obama | Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
Here are some recent quotes from the Obama/Biden campaign trail:
9/13/08: Obama addressing voters in New Hampshire:
- “They will try to distort my record, and they will try to undermine your trust in what the Democrats want to do. . . . But the times are too serious for those strategies to work this time.”
- “People are concerned not just for their immediate well-being, but they’re concerned about what happened to that promise, what happened to that dream? Are we going to be the first generation that passes on a country that is a little less prosperous, a little less unified and a little meaner than the last generation?”
9/12/08: Obama addressing a machinists convention in Florida:
- “I stand with you because what you’re fighting for isn’t unreasonable — what you’re fighting for is a fair shot at the American dream. It’s the idea that your government shouldn’t stand idly by while your job is shipped overseas.”
- “The very companies that shipped their jobs overseas have been rewarded with billions of dollars in tax breaks that John McCain supports and plans to continue. So when American workers hear John McCain talk about putting country first, it’s fair to ask: Which country?”
9/8/08: Hillary Clinton addressing voters in Kissimmee, Fla.:
- “As Americans go into that voting booth, what they have to ask themselves is not so much who am I for, as who is for me? And I don’t think it’s an even close question that we have the ticket that is going to do the best job in restoring the American promise.”
- “Anybody who believes that the Republicans, whoever they are, can fix the mess they created probably believes that the iceberg could have saved the Titanic.”
Filed under: One Choice: Obama | Tags: Barack Obama, bush doctrine, Joe Biden, John McCain, Karl Rove, Sarah Palin
A story in today’s L.A. Times carries the headline, “Obama is conspicuously silent on Sarah Palin.” Peter Nicholas writes, “Even as he mounts unceasing attacks on his Republican rival, Barack Obama is ignoring the person on the ticket who is the center of attention: Sarah Palin.”
You know what, why WOULD he have to comment on her when all the media and blogosphere (even SNL!) are weighing her skills for the job 24/7.
Obama, you see, is smart. (In GOP-speak, that is degraded as “elitist”! Spare me…) He knows better than to tussle with the Rovian Doctrine, a doctrine that apparently Joe Biden’s challenger has programmed into her brain. If you haven’t been paying attention the past eight years or so, the Rovian Doctrine bites the ankles of its targets and when they go to shoo it away, THEY are painted as the aggressor.
Obama knows that if the American people pay attention to the issues, the fact that John McCain voted with Bush 90 percent of the time (a fact he admits proudly), and the fact that McCain will lead us surely into more war games that will bleed the critically wounded American economy dry, then he will win. If you noted the simplified responses from Palin in her interview with Charlie Gibson and her very apparent lack of readiness for the VP post, let alone being a heartbeat away from Oval Office, then you know that it shows her addition to the ticket was an act of sheer desperation by McCain. Because when it comes down to the issues, McCain is way out of touch with America’s needs.
I loved listening to GOP pundits on Friday night, coddling Palin for not knowing what the Bush Doctrine was and exclaiming, geesh, how many Americans know what it is? It might not matter (though it should!) that the latter is true, but if someone is representing this country in the one of the top two posts, they damn well better know what the Bush Doctrine is!!!
