I’d like to second this, from Bob Cesca:
You know who shouldn’t be lecturing the Democrats about civility? The people who gave us swift-boating, the Southern Strategy, the outing of Valerie Plame, Birthers, Reverend Wright videos around the clock, “Obama pals around with domestic terrorists,” the exploitation of 9/11, comparing a triple amputee Vietnam veteran to Saddam Hussein, the booing of a gay soldier, and the party that sported Purple Heart band-aids at the 2004 convention to mock another decorated Vietnam veteran, John Kerry, who was wounded in combat. And no one on the floor of the Democratic convention hurled peanuts at an African American camerawomen, shouting, “This is how we feed the animals.”
What you are seeing this morning is how bullies react when they are confronted.
Using the jobs report would be a more effective attack.
Wanna bet?
Just watch.
1/2 of 1% of the public bases their understanding of the state of the economy on BLS reports.
Yes. The rest base their understanding the headline of only 96,000 created.
No, they don’t.
They base their understanding on the number of Help Wanted signs they see.
They base their understanding on whether their brother-in-law found a job.
They base their understanding on whether there are new stores opening up downtown, and by the highway interchange.
They base their understanding on whether their neighbors are being laid off.
As a political issue, jobs isn’t foreign relations. People actually have facts from the real world in front of their faces. Statistics and explanations are irrelevant.
Nicely put. Shame people decide things based on anecdotes though.
On the other hand, aggregate national numbers for the economy as a whole provides an imperfect view, too.
The Conventions were so very important this year. Because the Republicans came off looking like segregation-loving, poor-hating, money grubbing liars, the Democrats were able to hold a mirror up for everyone else to actually see them for who they really are. And that’s why the Republicans are crying now. They’ve been exposed.
I don’t know how these results will change the undecided voters and obviously the die-hard Republicans would vote for anyone running against Obama, but the Dems are now fully energized and will go out to their constituents and get them charged up, too.
My favorite quote after the success of the Democratic convention:
“The Republicans didn’t know whether to shit or wind their watches.”
more, please!
If only the choirs showed up to watch/listen/cheer, they won’t be important.
Unfortunately, I’m afraid we haven’t seen their worst. Yet, they are doing a very good job of marginalizing themselves.
I’m not sure the “Yet” is necessary. Their worst is the very thing that is marginalizing them. They jumped the shark.
The goal post moving this morning is fascinating. First Romney needed to have a good June, after the primary was over. He didnt, contrary to CW, Obama cleaned his clock. Then Romney needed a better summer leading up to the convention. Aside from Paul Ryan pick, Romney had a bad summer. Then Romney needed to have a great convention and therefore increase his fortunes, but he didn’t the convention was a disaster, first cause of Isaac, then Ann Romney’s overrated speech, then all the speakers who talked more about themselves that about the nominee, then the drab stagecraft, then Paul Ryan’s lying acceptance speech, then Romney lukewarm speech that was a big ole whiff of nothing, with no mention of the war or the troops, oh and less we forget…Clint Eastwood! Now he needs to over perform in the debates. Which is a lot of pressure & Mitt doesn’t seem to do well under pressure. Also, personally, I think more people are underestimating Obama’s debating skills by comparing them to 2008, & they are overestimating Romney’s debating skills by comparing them to that clown show that was the GOP primaries.
Willard’s going to get his clock cleaned…again.
Obama vs. Romney will be more important, but I’ve a feeling that Biden vs. Ryan will be more fun to watch.
the circumstances are the same though. People, meaning the GOP, totally underestimate Joe Biden. They’ve come too close to believing the caricature they’ve created of Joe. Bu Joe Chainz is wicked smart, and quick with the soundbites, good (“noun verb 9/11”) and bad (“unchained” wasn’t really bad, IMHO, but it was just ugh here we ago again with RW outrage), and last but not importantly, Joe Biden knows his stuff and can connect it in a way that Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney or even POTUS can.
So yeah, the Biden/Ryan debate will be one to watch
They’ve come too close to believing the caricature they’ve created of Joe.
Too close? No, they believe it all right. Just like they believe the caricature they’ve created of Obama. Republicans are real big on belief. It will be their downfall. Belief is a great thing, but there’s a reason God gave us eyes and ears, and He really does want us to use them.
Yeah, how quickly they forget. Biden is the Everyman’s Senator, the guy who rode the commuter train to
workthe Senate every day for how may years?that has long been a false equivalence given life by the so-called “liberal” media (by rightwingers anyway)under the “both sides do it” umbrella, that’s every bit as unsupported as the idea that they both lie with equal frequency and egregiousness. Their endless hate speech/baseless defamations means they do the latter far in excess, and even if one assumed they lie with equal frequency, which is hardly the case either as the record would show, it’s clear that frequency is wholly divorced from any evaluation or placement on an ethical spectrum or scale.
there’s a much larger cost for a Democrat to even stretch the truth than a Republican to outright lie, especially in this media environment.
you know it dude. My fav was what happened when dick durbin compared gitmo to a gulag during the bush years. http://www.talkleft.com/story/2005/06/16/496/87846
and it wasn’t that much of a stretch