Today’s FFS: GOP Mailer Suggests Obama Win Could Lead To Second Holocaust
November 1st, 2008Reason #6,214 why your retirement plan is completely worthless now: Bi-partisanship… The Dems call the Republicans fascists and Hitler, and the Republicans say the Dems make Hitlers possible. Progress!
TalkingPointsMemo has gotten its hands on this doozy…
The Republican Jewish Coalition is sending out a mailer in Pennsylvania that shows Barack Obama speaking in Germany earlier this year and warning of “tragic outcomes for the Jewish people.”
The GOP is resorting to the worst tactics. There is absolutely nothing the Dems have done this cycle to compare with the low, despicable tactics of the Republicans this time around. McCain has campaigned in the nastiest way possible and when his surrogates are asked to defend it, the best they can come up with is “liberal bloggers” and Kos (Literally that’s what former Governor Ehrlich of Maryland said on Hardball yesterday – comparing the tactics of a Presidential campaign and professional lobbying groups with any pinhead with a godaddy account). This isn’t a case of both sides sliming the other, this is a complete one-sided shit storm.
One of the McCaniacs was trying to “prove” the media bias by quoting a study which showed that, following the conventions (an arbitrary as hell place to start since that’s after the Wright scandals has dissipated and McCain hadn’t been in the news for months), 65% of the Obama stories were positive while only 35% of the McCain stories were positive.
I will concede that is does show bias. But not the way they think. Removing all bias, Obama’s stories should have been more positive and McCain’s should have been less so. If a person is acting 95% negative, unprofessional and dishonest – the reporting should reflect that. News stories should not be 50% positive-negative for each candidate – that simply doesn’t reflect their behavior and is, there’s no other word, biased.
McCain’s campaign and it’s behavior and that of its surrogates should not only disqualify them from the presidency, they shouldn’t be able to get a bank loan.
Oh wait, Bush already made that impossible.
– Steve
Stumble it!
November 3rd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
So the Obama campaign ad that literally says, in Spanish, that McCain thinks hispanics are stupid and should leave the country (by using Limbaugh quotes, no less–a man who loudly opposes every thing McCain has done regarding immigration for years) is a more respectful ad that shows Obama as being a “uniter”? And most of the mainstream ads have been nearly identical; they both blame the other side for the banking crises and taxes on the middle class (either the “liberal congressional allies” or “Bush”) and both claim that they will lower taxes and offer relief to the middle class. They both lie about every fact and dodge every challenge, and neither of them has a plan for anything that shows even the most basic knowledge of actual economics, as opposed to merely scoring points with lobbyists and voters. Please. We have a senile old fool waving his cane against a punk kid responding with a slingshot, and the VP slots are basically that same situation if you flip the parties. The only difference is that McCain is relying on the “good” parts of his record, his war history, and his (for a politician) attractive VP, while Obama relies on his short, murky past (whether that’s worse than a long, contradictory past is debateable), his relative clean slate, and his rhetorical skills (rhetoric; the ability to convince other people to back you, not necessarily requiring facts. We may recall that Hitler was excellent at this as well, and no, I’m not saying the two are otherwise the least bit alike). We are clearly, truly boned.