I was in North Carolina with Barack yesterday -- getting ready for tonight's debate -- and I took a break to record a short strategy update for you.
Yesterday, millions of Americans learned the details about John McCain, his political patron Charles Keating, and their role in the last major financial crisis and taxpayer-financed bailout of our time.
The truth makes it even clearer why a senior McCain adviser admitted to a reporter, "If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we're going to lose."
But it's not enough to merely inform voters -- we've got to turn them out to vote.
You can make a huge difference by making a short trip to a key battleground state where the race is neck-and-neck -- or by making phone calls to undecided voters in battleground states.
While we're focused on persuading and turning out voters, John McCain has given up talking about the issues that are central to this election -- especially the economy. Instead, he's running the most negative presidential campaign in modern history.
In the past few days, we've seen the beginning of a major offensive that McCain is about to launch, filled with distortions, personal attacks, and flat-out lies about Barack.
But you can help fight back by getting involved at the grassroots level -- knocking on doors, making phone calls, and talking to undecided voters about what really matters in this election.
Commit at least one day to make sure Barack gets the votes we need to win:
I didn't look at the video, but I see two new headlined articles here on opednews right now about how the Republicans are slinging mud, so I guess that's the latest assignment to all Democratic Party operatives: Attack the Republicans for slinging mud. In other words, attack the Republicans for attacking the Democrats.
The Democrats can't attack the Republicans for anything they've done, because there's nothing the Republicans have done that the Democrats haven't voted for. Rob posted an article saying that just because the Democrats led the push for the bailout doesn't mean that the Democrats are just as greedy as the Republicans, it means that the Democrats are cowards. I can't imagine that Obama would approve that message. ;)
I haven't read either of the newly headlined "mud" articles and I don't know about the author of the second article, but the author of the first one calls people "whiny cry-babies" if they complain about having mud slung at them. So I guess if he's saying that the Republicans are slinging mud at the Democrats, it must mean that while Rob Kall is calling the Democrats cowards, the first "mud" article author is saying that the Democrats are also whiny cry-babies. And these are the arguments FOR the Democrats.
Of course after the bailout, the Republicans aren't the only ones slinging mud at the Democrats. Democratic voters are starting to get a bit miffed about being sold out again and again and again, and having contacted their Democratic representatives to demand that they vote against the bailout, and having had their Democratic representatives ignore them, even the 10% of Democratic voters who still approved of Congressional Democrats prior to the bailout, are feeling betrayed.
The only strategy the Democratic Party has is to say, "Yes, we sold you out. No we don't represent you or care about you. But the Republicans are calling us names, so we're going to whine and cry about it to get you to vote for us."
They sold us out on the war. They sold us out on the economy. So now it's the mud? Man, they must really think that we're stupid.
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Mark E. Smith (21 articles, 30 quicklinks, 100 diaries, 1325 comments)
on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at 1:40:56 AM
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