are we going to start praising limbaugh for his "boldness" soon also?
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Jerry Monaco <monacojerry at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Charles Brown <
> charlesb at cncl.ci.detroit.mi.us> wrote:
>
> > No, no Rove hasn't been reading lbo-talk. Obama is to the right.
> >
> > Charles
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> Rove: " The truth is that Mr. Obama is unwilling to challenge special
> interests if they represent the financial and political muscle of the
> Democratic left. He says yes to the lobbyists of the AFL-CIO when
> they demand card-check legislation to take away the right of workers
> to have a secret ballot in unionization efforts, or when they oppose
> trade deals. He won't break with trial lawyers, even when they demand
> the ability to sue telecom companies that make it possible for
> intelligence agencies to intercept communications between terrorists
> abroad. And he is now going out of his way to proclaim fidelity to
> the educational unions. This is a disappointment since he'd earlier
> indicated an openness to education reform. Mr. Obama backs their
> agenda down the line, even calling for an end to testing, which is
> the only way parents can know with confidence whether their children
> are learning and their schools working."
>
> Certainly this is a man who knows how to string together cliches. This is
> why he is a genius -- he articulates the necessary cliches for those who
> want them at their fingertips and tongue tip.
>
> Emptiness, all we get is emptiness. Emptiness from Obama, emptiness from
> McCain. Emptiness filling the belly of the young child in the slum and
> emptiness filling the brain of every Clintonian. The emptiness of
> no-politics and the emptiness of the nobodaddy of the New York Timesman.
> The emptiness of the LBObamarama and the emptiness of the Big O of the
> next
> bimbo eruption. But most of all the emptiness of the eternal limbo of
> election year gossip, gossip, gossip.
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