P.S. Dear Arianna Huffington,
For all you "do", this button's for YOU!!
Posted on 07/01/2008 6:22:10 AM PDT by Eurale
Last Friday afternoon, the guests taking part in Sunday's roundtable discussion on This Week had a pre-show call with George Stephanopoulos. One of the topics he raised was Obama's perceived move to the center, and what it means. Thus began my weekend obsession. If you were within shouting distance of me, odds are we talked about it. I talked about it over lunch with HuffPost's DC team, over dinner with friends, with the doorman at the hotel, and the driver on the way to the airport. As part of this process, I looked at the Obama campaign not through the prism of my own progressive views and beliefs but through the prism of a cold-eyed campaign strategist who has no principles except winning. From that point of view, and taking nothing else into consideration, I can unequivocally say: the Obama campaign is making a very serious mistake. Tacking to the center is a losing strategy. And don't let the latest head-to-head poll numbers lull you the way they lulled Hillary Clinton in December.
(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
” (Liberal Revolt) “
Correction:
” (Liberals are Revolting) “
Imagine that! Undecided voters swayed by the unrefuted truth. What is this world coming to?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“Tacking to the center is a losing strategy”
Wrong.
All presidential candidates do it. The ‘True Believers’ must be courted to get the nomination. as they are the ones who will give money, make calls and walk precincts, but the majority of votes are in the center; a fact as loathed on FR as it is on DU. It’s a ritual dance that’s been going on as long as we’ve had political parties, with very few exceptions.
Reads to me as though Ariana is singin’ Tex Ritter’s “High Noon” ballad to Obama. “Do not forsake me....”
Hard to have 2 sides without a middle.
Always amusing to hear Zsa-Zsa’s thoughts — if you’ll pardon the oxymoron.
Great news... the moonbats are going for the socialist banzai! Blind emotion for “the cause” will lose them another election... maybe by a landslide.
Ariana musings, the sound effect is similar to nails scratching down on a blackboard. Her mug reminds me of Mr. Potato-Head’s Wife./Just Asking - seoul62........
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
I disagree with you and agree with the nutty lefties on this one.
When he campaigns from the middle he comes across as fake, uninspired, and confused. It’s like he’s campaigning in another language when he campaigns from the middle. So it’s a loser for him.
He has to stay as far left as possible, because that’s all he knows, and what he’s most comfortable doing. It’s like night and day.
I do agree, though, that staying far left is a loser as well. But he has a better chance staying left, using the race card to get the guilt vote, and using the MSM to water down his lefty message to make it more acceptable to the idiots that may vote for him. Than he does going middle and losing all credibility and inspiration. IMO
The Forehead (on the Republican President’s Dinner): “The limos were lined up around the block.”
Huffer-Arianna: “I talked about it...with...the driver on the way to the airport.”
Comrade Huffer, careful with your words or the peasants will know too much!
Why does anyone take this woman seriously?
To me, this can only mean that Obama's campaign has had to pretty much abandon its original campaign plan because of John McCain. I think they fully intended to sell Obama as a "progressive" and try to change the "liberal" brand the way they think Ronald Reagan changed the conservative brand in the 1980s. They thought Republicans were going to nominate Mitt Romney and they would have no trouble painting him as a flip flopper and a right wing nut. They thought Obama would come out of the primaries with a solid double digit lead in the polls and not have to tack to the center on anything.
Say what you want about John McCain, but he has seriously f-ed up Obama's campaign plan.
P.S. Dear Arianna Huffington,
For all you "do", this button's for YOU!!
Obama: The Candidate of ‘Change Du Jour!’
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