I don't know if it's because Dems are producing better operatives or have started recruiting from Republican campaigns or what, but it sure does seem like Dems are taking their game way up lately.
Remember Keith Ellison, the American born muslim congressman who's been attacked by various right-wing retards about his planned use of the Koran for his ceremonial swearing in? Check out this gamesmanship:
Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he'd take his oath of office on the Koran -- especially from Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values.
Yet the holy book at tomorrow's ceremony has an unassailably all-American provenance. We've learned that the new congressman -- in a savvy bit of political symbolism -- will hold the personal copy once owned by Thomas Jefferson.
Nicely played, Congressman Ellison.
Then there's John Edwards who recently announced he will be running for President in 2008. On ABC News Edwards deftly labelled the planned - sure to fail - "surge" in Iraq the McCain Doctrine, after the plan's biggest supporter, and not so coincidentally, one of Edward's possible presidential opponents.
Then there's the Macaca brouhaha that helped Jim Webb defeat George Allen for the Virginia Senate seat. Reading this article about how the Webb campaign jumped on Allen's blunder and framed the issue before Allen could defuse it made me think about how deftly the Bush campaign ran with Kerry's infamous "flip flop". For those who don't know, the story about the "flip flop" is that a republican staffer who was assigned to follow Kerry noticed at a campaign event that Kerry had a hard time explaining his votes for the Iraq war. Knowing that Kerry had a propensity to elaborate and confound when speaking, the Bush campaign had a plant at a subsequent Kerry campaign event ask about his votes for the war accurately predicting that Kerry's explanation could be easily distorted. Nicely done, Webb, but you were formerly a Republican so that explains a lot!
Posts
2 comments:
It is a pretty daring play by Ellison, one that most assuredly will not be well received by Goode and his gang. (not that we care) Afterall Jefferson was a slave owner and not exactly a symbol many of Ellison's constituents might hold in high regard. But then again, why shouldn't Ellison be allowed to play the game using the same peices politicans have used since the history of this country.
the surge has me worried. More soldiers put into harm's way for Bush/GOP political advantage. The additional 21K troops will only get the troop levels back to what they were before; but it did not work then, so why would it now? The Iraq Study Group said it would take some insane amount of troops to resolve the conflict. all that bush did was set up the democrats to appear weak on war or complacent with his strategies. he can now say, "we failed in Iraq cause the dems did not support additional troops" or (if the dems roll over), "the democrats approved the additional troops--so I am not to blame alone for the failed effort."
it is just disgusting. true democrats should have rolled with the disgust of american's and begun efforts to bring back every soldier. why are we baby-sitting a civil war? (well said Senator Obama!) how many years does it take to train an army? The iraqi population does not support the gov't we are cramming down their throat--let them deal with their own issues.
we should have never invaded and we have no reason to continue wasting billions of tax dollars, risking our soldiers' lives and increasing incentives for another 9/11.
Suppor the Troops--Bring them HOME!!
Post a Comment