Politico's Concern-Trolling

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2012/9/25/10134/9637

Politico's Concern-Trolling

by BooMan
Tue Sep 25th, 2012 at 10:13:04 AM EST


Politico is getting pretty desperate. They accuse the president of running a campaign that is lacking in audacity. I get that they are riffing on the title of the president's book, but "audacity" is not normally seen as a good thing. That's why the book title was clever. To see that this article is stupid, all you have to do is realize that they open with a bit of advice from Napoleon and then they never manage to refute it. What exactly Napoleon said may never be known, but the gist of it was that you should never interrupt your enemy when they are in the process of a making a mistake. The point being, for Politico, that the Obama campaign isn't making bold and risky moves because Mitt Romney seems to wake up each morning and light himself on fire. Why change the subject?

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So, obviously, now would be the time for the president to shift strategies and offer up some nice targets for Romney's artillery. What's missing here is the recognition that Obama has already had an audacious presidency. What do you call passing health care reform in the face of massive headwinds from a horrible economic meltdown, an aroused and unified Tea Party opposition, and all the usual corporate opponents? How easy is it to re-regulate Wall Street or set up a consumer protection bureau that goes after predatory lenders and dishonest contracts? How easy is it to take on Big Oil and Big Coal and make massive investments in clean and renewable energy? How easy is it to cut the private lenders out of the college loan economy? How easy is it to end wars that aren't going well?

It is Mitt Romney who is offering the audacious program in this election. It takes quite a bit of audacity to tell the American poor and middle class that they will have to make do with less earned benefits from Social Security and Medicare, get less help when they lose their jobs, go without health insurance, pay more in taxes, all so Romney can blow another hole in the federal budget with tax cuts for rich people and corporations. That takes "brass," as Bill Clinton put it in a slightly different context at the Democratic National Convention. Romney doesn't really want to talk about his plans because they are unpopular, but that's what's he's using to attack Obama's Citadel. Other weapons include a promise to harass Latinos so badly that they self-deport, the intent to appoint judges who will ban abortion, an opposition to gay marriage, support for laws that disproportionately disenfranchise blacks, and a new foreign policy where Israel makes our decisions in Middle East for us and war with Iran becomes a certainty.

If the battle is for public opinion, Romney's policies are blunt and broken tools which have no hope of breaching the president's fortifications. The only thing he can catapult is the propaganda. All Politico is trying to do is to lull the president out of his impregnable castle so he can be attacked with sticks and stones.

They have no advice to offer the president, and he doesn't need any.

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. Let me guess. Jim Vandehei? He is such a rightwing tool. nt

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Here's another one - by Fineman - same type of tone...."Floating Like A Butterfly"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/howard-fineman/barack-obama-floating-like-a-butterfly_b_1911017.html

WASHINGTON -- In his Senate office, Barack Obama gave pride of place to a famous sports photo: Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay back then) howling in triumph over the dazed hulk of Sonny Liston, belly-up on the canvas.

Like his boxing hero Ali, Obama is floating like a butterfly -- essentially untouched -- thus far in his presidential prizefight with Mitt Romney.

And that is not good for anybody: for the country, for the voters, for the political parties or even for Obama and his administration.

If American democracy is to work -- if we are to prevent the blood from clotting in the body politic -- presidential elections must be real contests over real ideas and real records, informed by real facts. "

snip - quite a sniveley little piece by Howard, really.

[bongbong]

3. Yes

I never understand when Rachel or others have center-right Fineman on.

[Cha]

4. Mitt Romney is a sociopathic Pathological LIAR... Suck on that,

politico.

[pinboy3niner]

5. They should be suggesting that ROMNEY is the one who needs some advice...

[FrenchieCat]

6. One of my favorite sayings...."Fuck Politico!" There, I feel better!

BooMan is absolutely right, in terms of the Concern Trolling Politico does every single damn day!

[babylonsister]

8. I'm glad you feel better!

Hi, Frenchie!

[FrenchieCat]

10. Hey there Sis!

[Coexist]

7. cannot stand Politico

ugh

[babylonsister]

9. Me neither, which is why I wanted to post this. nt