Re: Sharing is CaringmartiniandrossiOctober 3 2008, 16:25:54 UTC
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I need to start d/ling these podcasts. This guy is awesome. His expressions immediately after the clip have pretty much been the way I've felt whenever the McCain camp says something ridiculously inaccurate.
Re: Sharing is Caringhooded_nubbinsOctober 3 2008, 17:13:54 UTC
Well said... I couldn't have put my finger on it any better.
It's classic Republican strategy. Play every strength in your opponent as a weakness and every weakness in yourself as a strength. A few weeks ago, Aaron Sorkin (creator of the West Wing) wrote a fictional meeting between Obama and his President Bartlett and in it Bartlett says, "Where does a guy with 8 houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist?!" And it's totally true. Obama's no more an elitist than McCain, but the Republicans seem to think that by virtue of the fact that they say something, that means that everyone will accept it as the truth, no matter how ridiculous.
Re: Sharing is CaringmartiniandrossiOctober 3 2008, 17:26:26 UTC
Seriously.. I don't know how people can possibly think that change (co-opting Obama's slogan, no less) will actually come from the same assholes who've been running the Bush Admin's political show the last 8 years, adopt the same strategies that they've always used, and expect the rest of us to buy into it. It's an oxymoron in and of itself. The concept boggles the mind.
I've never watched the West Wing in all these years. My good friend told me I should watch it, too. Maybe I ought to pick it up on Netflix..
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I need to start d/ling these podcasts. This guy is awesome. His expressions immediately after the clip have pretty much been the way I've felt whenever the McCain camp says something ridiculously inaccurate.
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It's classic Republican strategy. Play every strength in your opponent as a weakness and every weakness in yourself as a strength. A few weeks ago, Aaron Sorkin (creator of the West Wing) wrote a fictional meeting between Obama and his President Bartlett and in it Bartlett says, "Where does a guy with 8 houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist?!" And it's totally true. Obama's no more an elitist than McCain, but the Republicans seem to think that by virtue of the fact that they say something, that means that everyone will accept it as the truth, no matter how ridiculous.
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I've never watched the West Wing in all these years. My good friend told me I should watch it, too. Maybe I ought to pick it up on Netflix..
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Here's the article Sorkin wrote if you're interested... it is a very good read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/opinion/21dowd-sorkin.html?em
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