.............. it couldn't get any dumber, it does.
This morning, the Real Sporer shoveled snow (so, Ghost of Gerald Ford, you might lose me to a heart attack) came in and decided to check the morning news before heading downtown.
What did I find, a story that proposes that M. Hussein Obama's white ancestors owned slaves. Given the prevalence of slavery in Africa, I'll bet his black ancestors did as well, if we just look a few generations more distant.
The Obama story is worse because they have to go all the way back to his great-great-great-great-grandfather, whereas the smear merchants could link Mitt to his great-great-grandfather (only four generations removed instead of six), although an Obama great-great-grandmother may have owned two slaves so perhaps Mitt and Oby might be equally guilty by ancestral association.
So, a Romney/Obama debate would turn on whose ancestors engaged in practices that society now condemns sometime around the middle of the 19th Century?
............ and people have to ask why reality TV is popular.
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Interesting stuff. Here's more from the guy that put together Obama's ancestry. Do you smell the hand of clinton in this research?
"Reitwiesner's research identifies two other presidential candidates, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former Democratic Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, as descendants of slave owners. Three of McCain's great-great-grandfathers in Mississippi owned slaves, including one who owned 52 in 1860. Two ancestors of Edwards owned one slave each in Georgia in 1860."
Yet, we have Hillary hiding her college thesis. Wonder what's in HER history she doesn't want us to see.
Will this be the campaign about everyones ancestors? Is that the only way Hillary can win?
Hillary's thesis was about a radical organizer. He taught her this lesson:
But Alinsky was no mere showman. He was a sometimes brutal seeker of power for others, schooling radicals with maxims such as "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it and polarize it."
That appears to be the origin of the politics of personal destruction. That's exactly what they do. They are doing it to Obama right now.
More from the Rule book taught to Hillary:
ALINSKY's RULES FOR RADICALS
"Personalize it"
Saul Alinsky's rules of power tactics, excerpted from his 1971 book "Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals"
1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2. Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. Whenever possible go outside the experience of the enemy.
4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8. Keep the pressure on.
9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10. Maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.
11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Sounds like the 90's doesn't it? Both presidential campaigns of Clinton? Does it sound like the DNC under Terry McAulife? Does it sound like Carville? Does it sound like Rahm Emmanual and every other Clinton team member, especially Hillary?
They used it against Newt, they used it against Bush, they used it against Trent Lott,they used it against Mark Foley even. After all, he only ended up being gay - NOT a pedophile.
Republicans have always succombed to these attacks. We all scratch our heads at our non-response.
Time to stop letting them use this playbook against us.
Isn't THIS interesting. Obama and Hillary share a common political ideological ancestry:
"A decade later, another political science major started out on the path that Hillary Rodham had rejected, going to work for a group in the Alinsky mold. That was Barack Obama, now a U.S. senator from Illinois and her leading opponent for the Democratic nomination.
After attending Columbia University, he worked as an organizer on the South Side of Chicago for the Developing Communities Project. Obama and others of the post-Alinsky generation described their work in the 1990 book “After Alinsky: Community Organizing in Illinois,” in which Obama wrote that he longed for ways to close the gap between community organizing and national politics. After three years of organizing, he turned to Harvard Law School and then the Illinois legislature."
Sporer's ancestors were slavic. Slavics did nothing to combat communism. Therefore, Sporer is a communist sympathizer.
I am glad we are tackling the big issues in the presidential race!
Fyi, Hillary's thesis is available to anyone who wants to read it: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17388372/
Many of us were aghast at the commercials and mailers that were sent out last cycle. Apparently, it was a national issue. Here's the Iowa angle reflected in this article appearing today. Looks like it won't be getting better any time soon and may explain some of our statewide losses.
Consultants own the party and the message, not the people and not the candidates. It happened here in Iowa too and will likely continue.
Who were the message decision makers in Iowa? Who came up with Whalens thing? Did RPI have anythign to do with that at all???
A main playor in this strategy now works for Romney. Hope that is just a coincidence. Also, see Whalens comments.
Ex-GOP candidates turn attacks back on national panel
By Rick Klein, Globe Staff | March 4, 2007
WASHINGTON -- One advertisement accused the rival candidate of billing taxpayers for a call to a phone-sex line. One alleged that a candidate "fixed" his daughter's speeding tickets. Still others stated that a candidate endorsed a "coffee talk with the Taliban," and that another was supported by the Communist Party.
Each charge was misleading at best, demonstrably false at worst. Yet the National Republican Congressional Committee paid for each of those ads last year, and its leaders said they could do nothing to pull them, even after some of the Republicans whom the ads were designed to help demanded that they come down.
Now, four months after Republicans lost control of Congress, many of their former candidates are calling for major changes at the NRCC. They depict the committee as a rogue attack-ad shop that shielded party leaders from having to account for the claims in their ads -- encouraging over-the-top accusations that often hurt GOP candidates.
The NRCC funneled more than $83 million through a special "independent expenditure" arm that made all decisions regarding ads.
The creation of the independent entity meant that when candidates such as Meier called NRCC headquarters to complain about the ads, committee officials said they couldn't discuss them, much less yank them from the air, without violating campaign-finance law.
Thus, national parties have been funneling their giant war chests into independent committees -- putting vast resources behind ads of a type that used to exist only on the political fringes.
But now, taking advantage of the latest loophole in the campaign-finance system, the national parties have started putting most of their advertising money into independent groups of their own creation.
The parties have essentially created their own version of the Swift Boat Veterans -- entities that operate outside the normal political apparatus, said Fred Wertheimer, president of the government watchdog group Democracy 21.
"There's no accountability," he said. "When you have unaccountability on this stuff, people start overreaching. And this idea of creating a Chinese wall within the party, where the people who are doing the ads are kept separate from the people who are doing the expenditures, is a fiction."
Forti, who now works as political director of the presidential campaign of former governor Mitt Romney, declined to comment, citing the NRCC's policy of not discussing independent expenditure operations publicly.
In Iowa, an NRCC ad suggested that Democrat Bruce Braley was backed by the Communist Party, citing the fact that a party newspaper labeled Braley a "peace candidate." Republican candidate Mike Whalen said he immediately called friends in Washington to pressure the NRCC to take the ad down, but was told that nothing could be done because it was a product of the independent expenditure arm.
"I went ballistic, desperately trying to send the message through back channels," Whalen said. "They didn't care. They said, 'We don't have any control over it.' . . . That ad in particular I think sullied my reputation, and I will always resent that ad."
Braley beat Whalen by 12 percentage points in a district that had long been a GOP stronghold.
Because the Supreme Court has affirmed parties' rights to set up independent committees, party leaders say, they are likely to continue the practice .
"When you get a lot of consultants in a hothouse, late in the campaign, and people really aren't responsible [for the message] because you're not working for the candidate, it's really easy to take a flier," Cole said.
Until party leaders take more responsibility for their ads, they are likely to frustrate more candidates."
Sporer is bald. Lex Luther is bald.
WHY DOES SPORER HATE SUPERMAN!?!?
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