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Pot, Meet Kettle
By Amy Fried
Since the infamous days of the
“swift-boating�?of John Kerry in 2004, it has become conventional wisdom that
the Karl Rove playbook involves shooting down the opponent’s strengths. And
while many have shaken their heads in disbelief, over the irony of Kerry’s
decorated service as compared to Bush’s, the other side of the equation is
rarely discussed: that the opponent’s targeted strength, is also the Republican
candidate’s weakness. Rachel Maddow brought this up in a recent
segment on the whole canard of ACORN somehow being a
source of massive voter fraud. She starts the segment off by noting that Steve
Schmidt, protégé of Karl Rove, has perfected the technique of attacking at your
"candidate’s own weakness." Maddow points out
that: 1)
McCain, whose operatives - especially campaign manager Rick
Davis - are knee-deep in Fannie-Freddie connections,
accuses Obama of Fannie-Freddie connections;
2) McCain, whose campaign is flush with
lobbyists, declares war on the Washington lobbyist culture;
3) McCain and Palin are attacking Obama
for his supposed ties to ACORN, and fretting about voter fraud and the downfall
of Democracy, when: 1- It is the
GOP that has engaged in voter suppression tactics;
2- Voter fraud and voter registration
fraud are very different things; AND 3 - McCain himself was the keynote
speaker at an ACORN event two years
ago!
Since Maddow’s piece on ACORN, the latest
canard has been the absurd accusation that the Obama campaign are secret
socialists looking to redistribute wealth, stealing from
hard-working Americans and giving to the unworthy ones. While AmericaBlog points out the irony of this one, in the face of
the huge government takeover of the banking industry, it was especially
gratifying to hear David Gergen - advisor to both Republican and Democratic
presidents - make this point to Wolf Blitzer over the
weekend:
“GERGEN: The former treasury secretary
and a Democrat to be fair. But if you go back to the distribution of wealth in
1979, 30 years ago versus today, the people in the bottom 80 percent are losing,
compared to back then, $600 billion a year. The top 1 percent of the population
is gaining compared to back then. We have had a redistribution of wealth in this
country, up. BLITZER: What the McCain people are suggesting and even Senator
McCain yesterday in his radio address, suggested this is almost
socialism.
GERGEN: We just had a Republican government that put $150
billion into banks. They have injected the government more fully into the
banking system, the financial system than any time in history. And so it's a
hollow argument. I mean, I think the Democrats, if they want to join this
argument, they can. This is their very strong argument to say you guys are
socialism when you just spent $150 billion as a down
payment?�?/EM>
Beyond this latest desperate move, the list of projections hurled by the
McCain-Palin campaign is almost endless. For instance, while McCain has snarled
that Obama doesn’t understand foreign affairs, it is McCain that has confused
Sunni and Shia, Spain and Latin America, and the borders of
Pakistan. While McCain and his supporters
accuse Obama of being un-American, it is Palin who addressed the secessionist
Alaska Independence
Party, of
which her husband was a member for seven
years.And
of course, while McCain and Palin pound Obama for his irrelevant contact with
William Ayers forty years after the Weather Underground, McCain has a much
closer relationship with G. Gordon
Liddy, who
- among other things - encouraged the killing of ATF agents on the
air.
On the 10/19/08 special Sunday edition of
Hardball, Joe Scarborough actually suggested that Obama would have been
at a great disadvantage had he been white with a more familiar name. As Tom
Hartmann pointed out the other day on his radio show: can you imagine if the
Obama’s had had a pregnant teenage daughter, of if Michelle Obama had belonged
to a secessionist political party, or if Obama had been a member of the Keating
5?
Pot, meet Kettle.
Authors
Website: http://neoconmind.blogspot.com
Authors Bio: The author received
her Ph.D. in the field of Organizational Behavior, which she now applies to her
political writing. She's been an advocate for church-state separation and other
civil liberties issues. She writes on the neoconservative mind, women's issues,
media, veganism and the Religious Right.
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