Ohh Thanks :)

Nice try, I’ll give you an ‘F’. for effort.

Amen.

Check this article from The Nation:

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/371959/how_sarah_palin_excluded_african_americans_in_alaska

Rep. Lewis’s statement is clear about what he wanted to accomplish–that McCain’s campaign rallies not continue to incite the crowd to hatred with a prospect of creating social unrest and schism. That is a noble intervention and it is timely, McCain’s self-righteous indignation notwithstanding. Lewis simply stated the truth which many in the McCain camp (and some in the media) may not want to hear; but it is a statement of wisdom. He said: “George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights.” Lewis’s concern was about “creating an atmosphere of hatred.” He was not saying that McCain was doing many of the nasty things that Wallace did in his life. No objective observer would dispute the fact that hatred was being stirred at McCain-Palin rallies by words—words by some supporters and by the candidates themselves. In Western European democratic systems, McCain and Palin and Co. open themselves up for a charge of incitement to hatred. What would they say for their defense should any danger or harm result from the way they have been conducting this campaign? That is why Lewis warned that McCain and Palin and handlers are playing with fire! If harm should result it likely will lead toin unmentionable social rupture. No responsible citizen wants that!

This post has been made all the more illuminating by Ralph the extraordinary ruminant’s contribution of Atwater’s pathetic ‘death-bed confessional’ (as it were).

In the contemporary scene such political operatives are perhaps more public than they once were, I guess due to the need to feed a 24/7 political discussion which didn’t exist on TV until relatively recently.

The first political apparatchiks I could recognize were Carville/Matalin and of course Rove. Now I’m familiar also with Luntz, Lanny Davis and Dick Morris.

In a way the most interesting and frightening of these have not been the Republican apparatchiks, but the supposedly Democrat operatives–Carville, and especially Davis and Morris.
They represent a large professional class of cut-throat psychopaths for whom politics is simply a game of manipulation to be won by whatever means necessary. Even the ‘losers’ never actually lose, they just move on to the next election. Their moral compasses are usually blown by political winds and most importantly money and professional power.
The beauty of being a political consultant/campaign manager is that there are no real consequences to ones actions. The merits or demerits of actual policy don’t matter, only the game matters and the paycheck. Though their tactics and dirty tricks are recognized each and every election they never really lose their position (unlike some of the politicians).

In my opinion the majority of them are as much to blame for bad candidates and bad policies as much as the politicians.

My, don’t we have a healthy self-esteem.

I think baracuddas are getting a bad rap being compared to SP and so are pigs–those creatures are a helluva lot nicer

Reagan’s approval rating was 68% in Jan. 1989, same as opinion on how he handled his presidency. Bush I ran full out on a “more of the same” platform, and people easily followed along – Gore should have done the same.

The Atwater playbook faces a vastly more difficult sell when Bush II’s approval is in the low 20’s and McCain has nothing to turn to but more of the same.

Fred Says:
atwater like wallace renounced his right wing policies as wrong before he died. You never hear of a progressive doing that do you?

Must be because progressives are so hard-headed, Fred.

yeah, that must be it.

October 9, 2008

Bev Harris, corporate fraud auditor,citizen activist and star of HBO’s “Hacking Democracy” (watch below), checks in with Alex Jones and tells him how the electronic voting systems have been designed for fraud and how we the people have transferred control of our elections to government insiders and their contractors.