“Reagan won in 1980 based on ideas and principles and it didn’t hurt having Carter to run against.
In 2008 Obama will win on technique, that is to say, raising much more money, feeling the pulse of the electorate and saying what they want to here, knowing full well his color is an asset with the liberal elite. ”
Feeling the pulse is how everyone wins, Reagan, Kennedy, everyone. Democratic elite? You mean as opposed to the everymen who run the Republicans? Face it, the GOP is just as dominated by elites – didn’t they just run a wealthy oil heir with a rich and well-connected father? As far as principles, I seem to remember Reagan selling weapons to a brutal and repressive Islamic Iranian regime. If Obama advocated that…let’s not even think about it.
This article asserts a) That Obama and Biden tried to destroy Joe the Plumber. b) That Democrats attacked Joe and c) That Obama’s comment actually might hurt his campaign.
In fact, neither Obama or Biden did anything other than mention Joe briefly, and with no negative words at all. The Democrats have not actually attacked him. Neither Obama, Biden, any of their staffers or any significant Democrats have attacked him. One person suggested he might be a plant for Rove and that’s ridiculous, but one single person does not make a party . If that was true, all Republicans would be like Larry Craig or Bob Ney, which is of course ludicrous. The only people who’ve done digging on Joe have been the media. Blast them all you want, but McCain is also to blame: he was the one who put Joe on the spot.
As for Obama’s comment, since Keating, Rev. Hagee and Liddy haven’t torpedoed McCain, and Ayers and Wright haven’t killed Obama, what makes you think this will do anything?
“Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a member of the editorial board of the San Diego Union Tribune, a nationally syndicated columnist, a frequent lecturer, and a regular contributor to CNN.com.” For all the qualifications, sticking to the facts appears to be beyond you, sir. You should be ashamed of yourself for being another Michael Moore/Rush Limbaugh type who spreads the the many rumors both sides use to generate outrage among their own. It’s a game both wings are guilty of: they try to make their side believe something bad about the other (could be true or false, doesn’t matter to them) while they also attempt to persuade the rest of the US that these rumors could be true. From Salon.com on the left to conservative talk radio, it’s a low and dishonest game. You, Mr Navarette, should be ashamed of yourself.
PS You failed to address all the hardworking poor who deserve more but never get it…or the Bushes of the world who earn nothing but receive everything. Oddly enough one’s level of wealth is not really connected with how much one merits which anyone can see given the high percentage of the wealthy with affluent and educated parents. Social justice is only class warfare if you believe the wealthy actually deserve all they’ve given themselves and believe that the poor deserve whatever they end up with.
PPS Notice how the links here go?
Barack Obama’s War on Black America
by Andrew Walden
Obama’s Meddling Undermines Future U.S.-Iraq Relationship
by Mohammed Fadhil
Obama Sells Out Education to the Revolution
by Mary Grabar
This is a slanted website. Nothing overly wrong with that, just don’t expect reliable information here.
