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Who is this wise old fat man?
Submitted by Dan U-A on Mon, 09/08/2008 - 8:44pm.
Whoever this Ed Rendell dude is, we need to put him in front of the cameras:
"She [claims to be] a reformer," said the Pennsylvania Democrat. "And yet she is being investigated on the charge that she used her power as governor to fire someone who was going through a messy divorce with a relative of hers. Could you imagine if I was doing the same thing in Pennsylvania? You would be calling for my impeachment."
Zing!
In between getting lessons in how to dress from Vaughn Hebron, Big Poppa Rendell also said this:
"[The McCain camp] has tried to again obscure the facts about Gov. Palin. 'She is a reformer and against earmarks.' No she isn't, when she was mayor of that town she hired a lobbyist to get earmarks... 'She was against the bridge to nowhere.' No she wasn't. She was for the bridge to nowhere first... She is a budget balancer. But she left the town in greater debt then when she became mayor, so she is not a budget balancer."
And this:
"First of all, let me say it should be embarrassing for the Republican ticket that Rick Davis, Sen. McCain's campaign manager, said 'this election is not about issues.' Good lord, with all the challenges facing America it has to be about issues...They don't want to talk about issues because when the truth comes out about issues the American people will favor Sen. Obama tremendously."
The Republicans, he added, "would make the all time all-star team for spiders the way they can spin."
Get this man a hoagie and lots of national camera time, because it is about time Democrats started dealing bluntly with McCain/Palin.
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Dan, you and I couldn't
Dan, you and I couldn't agree more.
The Republicans will use their slash-and-burn tactics. The only way to counter that is with a strong, forceful and critical (but factual) counter attack.
Now that the media circus over Palin is calming down a bit, it's time to show Americans what she is, a dud.
Democrats, not Jedi
I've never understood the ethics of "counter attack." It seems to me that what was great about Obama's convention speech, and Biden's retort to Palin's, is that it didn't pedantically disprove/refute the attacks (although you sometimes have to do that). We're the insurgent party. We need to be on the attack. Rendell gets it.
Fighting back
In my role as host of the Mt. Airy chapter of Drinking Liberally, I've occasionally sent out links to articles + videos debunking various McCain/Palin (an aside: don't all of you *really* prefer Michael to Sarah Palin?) lies. Several fellow Liberal Drinkers have retorted that doing so, in effect, brings the Dems down to the GOP's dirty level.
I have two general responses to this. First, yes, it's a shame that this campaign can't be as substantive as McCain claimed it would be at the outset. But, second, playing fair didn't help Al Gore or John Kerry very much, and it won't do anything for Obama except give him a great seat to watch McSame get inaugurated as President.
If we want Obama to win, we have to hit back- and hard. I was very heartened to see that, while Kerry's response to the Corsi book "Unfit for Command" (the book which started the 'Swift boating' meme) was late + lame, the Obama campaign's response to Corsi's "Obama Nation" (abomination, get it- GOP wit at its finest) was both immediate + forceful.
But we, collectively, have to get over ourselves, + respond fast + furious to GOP attacks against Obama and Biden. I agree w/Dan- let's get Rendell a national megaphone, + fast. Rendell has a rare political gift, namely that of being a wonk who's able to communicate well w/a wide variety. Think a northeastern version of Bill Clinton, if you will. The Dems need all their big guns to remain firmly aimed at the GOP's exaggerations, innuendo, + flat out lies if they want to get Obama elected.
-Z