Blaming Voters Isn’t Very Smart
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 30th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
Blaming Voters Isn’t Very Smart
John Podhoretz, New York Post
On Oct. 24, 1996, Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole got up at a campaign rally and promptly lost it: “I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about, or if people are thinking at all,” he shouted. “Wake up, America!”Those words — an unmistakable harbinger of the humiliation Dole would experience by losing to Bill Clinton in a landslide 12 days later — seemed to echo painfully like Taylor Swift singing without the benefit of an auto-tune machine in the bewildering comments made over the last couple of days by President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
Apathy Could Hurt Dems, Obama Warns
Anne Kornblut, Washington Post
MADISON, WIS. – President Obama delivered an impassioned argument to young voters Tuesday night, declaring that the changes he promised in 2008 are underway and that “now is not the time to give up.”Trying to recapture the enthusiasm that catapulted him into office, Obama returned to the proven format of a large college campus to launch a pre-election push for fellow Democrats. Speaking to what was once one of his most fervent fan bases – students – he unleashed a string of dire warnings about Republican control, arguing that his opponents are banking on Democratic…
Political Class Has Betrayed the Country
Tony Blankley, RealClearPolitics
Not long after the tea party sprang into being in the spring of 2009, America's elites started vilifying the movement. In an article worthy of a class-action libel suit, The New York Review of Books depicted the tea party's first march on Washington as a parade of bigots.Ex-president Jimmy Carter spit venom at tea partiers by saying they resented an African-American president — a baseless charge of racism willingly echoed by the media. Receive news alertsWhen they weren't being defamed as racists, tea party supporters were described as irrational, enraged, seething, and livid….
