Why should Hillary attack Palin? That would just create more distraction in this race than needed. Its good that she defended him though. Props to Hillary.

Hillary is doing what the Obama camp is telling her to and it's the right thing to do.

The last thing we need is more Palin-drama.

Bush-McCain, Bush-McCain, Bush-McCain.

That's what we need.

http://strategy08.wordpress.com

Palin versus Hillary distracts from Obama versus McCain.

Eyes on the prize.

McCain is using Surrogates to rape Obama.

Obama and HRC decide not to use/be a Surrogate to attack McCain/Palin.

We're going to lose this race. We can talk all we want about how we "should have" won in 2000 and 2004, and honestly we should have. But this one was a complete layup. We have the right "candidate" and the right platform and messages. We're against just about the worst candidate that has ever run for President - he can't open his mouth without lying, and that's been the case for more than two decades to people who've followed him closely. Yet here we are fucking it up seven ways to Sunday by repeating every single mistake we made in the last two elections.

I don’t believe Obama was referring to Palin in the "lipstick on a pig" statement. However, the Obama campaign should expect that these kinds of distortions hit their campaign also, since they played the same game repeatedly during the primaries. Two examples:

1.)Bill Clinton in a speech refered to Obama’s claim that he consistently opposed the Iraq war as a “fairy tale”. He then went on to cite Obama’s statements after the 2002 speech, where he suggested that he didn’t know how he would have voted had he been in congress at the time and had seen the evidence presented to the sitting senators. Bill Clinton also noted that all of Obama’s Iraq war votes subsequent to arriving in the Senate were identical to Hillarys'. The Obama people said he was referring to the Obama’s candidacy and how Bill Clinton was suggesting that it was a fairy tale to think that a black man could win the presidency, when it was clear Bill Clinton said no such thing.

2.)Hillary referring to the role of MLK’s speeches in getting the Civil Rights Act passed suggested that speech making is good but it also took some political machinations on the part of LBJ to get the bill through congress. Again they took her words out of context saying she was elevating the role of the white man in passing the Act.

So what it shows is that with all the talk of change, smear politics is alive and well on ALL sides.

How about some cadaver make-up for McCain ?

The man is too old for the job ...

Could we please quit beating a dead pig?

Campbell Brown just completely dismissed the sexism charge. Played footage of McCain using the lipstick line and Palin calling Clinton a whiner. Encouraging.

The media is simply dying for a Hillary/Palin catfight..what fun for reporting! But what a distraction from the campaign goals. So it'd hardly be fun if you're really, really serious about the issues at hand...

No kidding, hats off to Obama and Clinton for mature judgment and political savvy that's on the side of families struggling to get by.

Hillary doesn't want to get into a catfight, and she is exactly right not to.

Every minute spent talking about this diversionary crap instead of issues is a minute that goes to John McCain.

It is the economy, stupid, along with health insurance and schools and, oh yeah, war.

Thank you Hillary!!!

Why does it have to be a cat fight or nothing at all? Why can't Hillary take the high road and still address Palin head on as a woman but also as a leader?

There are issues and it is an historical campaign and she still has a role to play.

Her silence is just as "deafening" as McCain's silence on the issues.

Obama is letting them get away with it. I love Biden, but he cannot fight Palin because they have already set the terms of the argument. The deck is stacked folks.

That is why she keeps on lying about her record. IT DOES NOT MATTER. THEY DO NOT CARE.

We keep moaning about the lies, but it only makes us seem like whiners. Why is that? Because they hold the trump card and that card says that "it's ok to lie as long you are right."

Hillary can change the tone and the timbre of this whole sad but very real game.

The gender card has been played and now it is up to women to play it out. Not just Hillary, but Caroline Kennedy, Sibelius (she has said more than Hillary), and Oprah, et al and on and on.

Pile on.

I don't think Hillary should directly attack Palin but she can help a lot by just talking about what voters or the press should legitimately demand from a serious woman contender for the White House (president or VP). This will set up a nice contrast with which voters judge Palin's performance.

I also think Hillary should stop praising Palin's VP bid unless she is that kind of feminists who believe that any woman will do.

Thats the right approach from Obama & Clinton because all the media wants is the ratings and they would love to see a Clinton vs Palin duo.

We seriously need to let go of this Palin crap. When I say "we" I mean the blogs like TPM and Huffington and Kos. C'mon folks. The more the focus is on Palin, the less it's on the issues. And McCain loses when the focus is on issues.

We're behaving like a bunch of crack addicts and Palin is the crack. Hell, we know she's unprepared and unqualified. We know she's a liar. We know her family is Springer-ready. So what?? That's not the issue. We've got to get to the issues and show folks how McCain means four more years like the last 8. That's how we'll win, not by acting like a bunch of ninnies who are jealous over her popularity. Hell, we're making her popular!

From:

Head of State

http://tinyurl.com/6lbfdv

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Palinism: Politics as The Content-Free Violation of Expectation

What is Palinism?

What is it about?

What policies?

What ideas?

What positions?

Even in the Lincoln-Douglas debates, while no doubt many were motivated by regional partisanship, local prejudices, and "the measure" of the candidate, one suspects that at least a rough rendering of the issues--secession vs. Union, free vs. enslaved--was carried in and animated the crowds.

Now, it is pure reaction to pattern. To one impulse expectation violated by the provocation of another impulse, that feels--good.

We have reached the content-free phase of American politics.

A form, an image--glasses, hair, a voice, what it suggests--is enough. She could be speaking the words to the airport timetable, the swearing-in speech of Ferdinand Marcos, the ingredients of a box of Sizzlean-- the image, the sound, and the gathering impulse, the bare stirring from dull lack of novelty--is sufficient to awaken the crowds to angry perturbence at...the stimulus to be perturbed, and the bare sense of actual directed action and purpose that comes with doing so.

Palin herself wears a glazed, slightly confused look in her eyes--what is it that has unleashed this roar, this approbation. Being used to herself, and having been among those who are well used to her, she is unaware of the novelty that her mere form releases in the dazed electorate, yearning for a pretext for expression. Soon, she'll believe it herself.

And, after all, isn't that what democracy is all about? The ability to choose to decide without knowledge? Better yet, to choose your knowledge, irrespective of fact, in correspondence with the liberating, confirmation-free impulse?

This is what today's moment stands for.

These are our satisfactions and securities in this golden age.

Cite:

Head of State

http://tinyurl.com/6lbfdv

From Wikipedia:

"She is a pig who is convinced she is destined for stardom, and nothing is going to stand in her way. She presents a public face of the soul of feminine charm, but can instantly fly into a violent rage whenever she thinks she's insulted or thwarted." -- Who is Miss Piggy

CNN is going to show Palin's live arrival in Alaska where she'll address the crowd.

A correspondent there said "oddly they are setting up teleprompters which is rather unusual for this type of event..."

Can this woman do ANYTHING without being scripted????

CNN is going to show Palin's live arrival in Alaska where she'll address the crowd.

A correspondent there said "oddly they are setting up teleprompters which is rather unusual for this type of event..."

Can this woman do ANYTHING without being scripted????

I think it's good that Hillary doesn't go after Palin directly. For one thing, it would just feed the stupid, sexist "catfight" narrative that the media is salivating over.

For another thing, Hillary's too good for that. To put her in the position of being the alternate pitbull would be a gross underuse of her talents. It implies there's some kind of equivalence between Clinton and Palin, but they're not in the same league, and we shouldn't give Palin that stamp of legitimacy.

No, use less significant surrogates to push back on Palin, and use Hillary to solidify support in the key swing states. Keep her speaking to her key consitutencies.

Palin is not going to energize anyone except the true wingers. To the rest of the nation she'll look smaller and smaller as weeks go by. A real liability unless the Palin thing gets the Obama campaign off message.

The solution for us, don't take the bait.

McCain would have been dead meat without those super conservative voters, and he knew it. Now he must face the critical problem of luring the middle of the road voter, whom he also needs. As the weeks go by go by, Gov. Palin will prove a liability (and a poor VP choice) as he tries to win the more moderate voter.

Be cool.

It is not about personal attacks or even going after Palin (although the Republicans would need a new cry besides "sexist"). What Hillary needs to do is mobilize women.

She needs to get her following in the news to create a buzz. Start a women who support women's rights group. Start making headlines so women don't forget that they have a leader on the other side. Women have come too far to let another woman take away their own right to choose.

We don't need to attack Palin right now. We just need Hillary, the true leader of women's rights, to get her face out there. Make the headlines, get her face on the news. Give them something to talk about. Show them their true leader.

Let the Republicans try to go after her, and then all those crocodile tears will disappear like Kim Jong Il (where is that guy btw?).

Those "McCain Palin in 2008" signs should read "McSame Phalin Policies as 2004"

Anyway let's place bets as to when Palin will finally stop making that McSame speech she's been making since the convention.

Let's go Hillary. This is finally your time to shine. Don't sit back and say I told you so. Get up and show the world what you can do. Do it for your loyal supporters who don't want to lose their right to decide what to do with their own bodies.

It is not about personal attacks or even going after Palin (although the Republicans would need a new cry besides "sexist"). What Hillary needs to do is mobilize women.

She needs to get her following in the news to create a buzz. Start a women who support women's rights group. Start making headlines so women don't forget that they have a leader on the other side. Women have come too far to let another woman take away their own right to choose.

We don't need to attack Palin right now. We just need Hillary, the true leader of women's rights, to get her face out there. Make the headlines, get her face on the news. Give them something to talk about. Show them their true leader.

Let the Republicans try to go after her, and then all those crocodile tears will disappear like Kim Jong Il (where is that guy btw?).

Those "McCain Palin in 2008" signs should read "McSame Phalin Policies as 2004"

Anyway let's place bets as to when Palin will finally stop making that McSame speech she's been making since the convention.

Let's go Hillary. This is finally your time to shine. Don't sit back and say I told you so. Get up and show the world what you can do. Do it for your loyal supporters who don't want to lose their right to decide what to do with their own bodies.

It is not about personal attacks or even going after Palin (although the Republicans would need a new cry besides "sexist"). What Hillary needs to do is mobilize women.

She needs to get her following in the news to create a buzz. Start a women who support women's rights group. Start making headlines so women don't forget that they have a leader on the other side. Women have come too far to let another woman take away their own right to choose.

We don't need to attack Palin right now. We just need Hillary, the true leader of women's rights, to get her face out there. Make the headlines, get her face on the news. Give them something to talk about. Show them their true leader.

Let the Republicans try to go after her, and then all those crocodile tears will disappear like Kim Jong Il (where is that guy btw?).

Those "McCain Palin in 2008" signs should read "McSame Phalin Policies as 2004"

Anyway let's place bets as to when Palin will finally stop making that McSame speech she's been making since the convention.

Let's go Hillary. This is finally your time to shine. Don't sit back and say I told you so. Get up and show the world what you can do. Do it for your loyal supporters who don't want to lose their right to decide what to do with their own bodies.

sorry it kept saying error lol

Old Joe Biden, today in Nashua, NH, in response to an inaudible question from an audience member:

“Make no mistake about it Hillary Clinton is as qualified as or more qualified than I am” to be vice president, Biden said. “And quite frankly, she may have been a better pick than me.” Really? You think?

What a stunning admission. It’s not a surprise, though. How could a guy who could barely get 2,000 votes in the presidential primaries have anything to offer the Democratic ticket that would translate into getting voters excited enough to vote for the ticket?
It’s pathetic. It’s the Democratic party once again seizing defeat from the jaws of victory.
Blame should go Oilbama himself. He was to much of a Sexist Pig to offer Hillary the VP even after she trounced him in all the Blue states needed to win the election.

You're right, as usual. Biden was obliged to pick her because she is a woman, otherwise he is that filthy thing that you said though I won't lower myself to your level by repeating it. More good analysis from Mr. Dumbass.

This is so unimportant. Phony outrage, lipstick, pigs and political spin What has happened to America

obama made a pretty good point on letterman last night: granting the absurd conclusion for a moment that he WAS referring to palin, she would have been the lipstick, not the pig (same old policies and campaign = pig; palin = lipstick).

Obama's lipstick whine is ridiculous - after his campaign, bots, surrogates, and media excoriated the Clintons over innocent remarks deemed "racist."
The big difference was the Clintons didn't have the media and Dem leaders stepping up to challenge the faux outrage.
And today - Obama is having lunch with a racist! -while Obama is perfectly content to allow the "Clintons are racists" FALSE narrative to continue.

And you are a troll.

What's your point?