I have to say, as a Republican, I take immense pleasure in watching the two Democratic candidates go after each other like rabid dogs.


Clinton supporters say the darndest things.
Here's [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. , commenting on the political firestorm surrounding Barack Obama's [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. -- broken on HuffPost's OffTheBus -- about economically-depressed small town voters: "The far right wing has a very good track record of using things like this relentlessly against our candidates, whether it's Al Gore or John Kerry. I'm afraid this is the kind of fodder they might use to harm him."
They? They? It's not the far right wing relentlessly using these comments for political gain, Senator. It's your candidate, Hillary Clinton, adopting the frames, lies, stereotypes and destructive clichés long embraced by the likes of Lee Atwater and Karl Rove. She has clearly decided that the road to victory runs through scorched earth.

The question is, if she succeeds, what kind of Party will she be left to lead? She's burning down the village to save it -- or to prove that she would make the best fire chief. But the village won't be saved; only one house will be left standing. A house with room for just two occupants. Hill and Bill.
Clinton's cynical distortion of Obama's remarks is in keeping with her campaign's modus operandi. On the foreign policy front, we've been fed a steady diet of her RNC-patented attacks: No Democrat can be trusted with national security -- except her. Obama hasn't crossed the threshold to be Commander in Chief Etc.
Now she's turned to the domestic policy section of the RNC playbook, twisting Obama's words in a way that confirms every right-wing demagogic caricature of her own Party.
Yes, as Obama himself admits, he certainly could have chosen his words more artfully. Perhaps he should have borrowed Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign rift about "economically insecure white people who are scared to death." Maybe "scared to death" is less "elitist" than "bitter." But telling the truth, however inartfully, makes you "out of touch"? Give. Me. A. Break.
It has been an article of faith in the Democratic Party over the last twenty years that when small town, working class whites vote for Republicans they're voting against their economic self-interest. And why do they do that? Because every four years the Republican Party comes into those small towns and, to distract folks from the worsening economic situation, trots out a bunch of divisive, hot button social issues: "Let's not talk about why you don't have a job, can't afford health care, or can't send your kids to college; let's talk about gay marriage, school prayer, illegal immigration, and flag burning amendments." And Hillary is following the blueprint.
John McCain may as well take the next six months off, raise some money, maybe take a vacation -- because Hillary Clinton is out there doing his work for him.
This weekend she tried to paint herself as a good old boy, the kind of gal you'd want to have a beer with -- not like that "elitist" Barack Obama: "You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot when I was a little girl." After she said this, she took a shot of whiskey. What's next, ads of Obama windsurfing? At 3 a.m.
But before Hillary Oakley runs out and bags her a few more ducks, Andrew Sullivan points out that of the top ten gun-owning states in the country, [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. . Cling to that.
But, of course, this isn't about guns or religion or fear of foreigners. It's about, as David Axelrod says, the (pardon the expression) bitterness and mistrust that stem from voters being "tired of politicians who come around at election time and express their solicitude as part of a tactic and don't follow through on it."
Jumping on the GOP talking points bandwagon, Clinton's new Mark Penn, Geoff Garin [LINK POSTED BY MEMBER] Only Members Can View This Truck Forum Link. : "These are the kinds of attitudes that have created a gulf between Democrats and lots of small-town and heartland voters that we've been working very, very hard to bridge." Karl Rove, who has devoted his life to making people believe that such a gulf exists, couldn't have scripted it better himself.
If Clinton's Rovian stoop-to-anything tactics succeed -- not at beating Obama but at making him an easier target for McCain -- the price will be paid by the very small-town Americans she is now pandering to. Americans already banished to economic oblivion by the same cynical tactics she's employing will be rewarded with four more years of downward economic mobility.

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After reading Obamas comments, I came across a couple of interesting ones....actually one broken into two parts.

"A new generation needs to move into government service"


Is he talking about out with the old and in with the new????? A new generation that's more in line with his true beliefs???? Or is this just another way to further grow our already overgrown government?????


"There's something big and noble and exciting and brilliant" (about serving your country)


I'll have to agree somewhat with the second part of the statement...government service is noble and sometimes exciting. I'm reminded of the nobility of Military Service. Hearing shots fired in anger in defence of our country WILL get you excited as well. As for the big and the brilliant.......our government is sooooo big that it's in serious need of a major diet plan. Brilliant??????? When was the last time you actually talked on the phone with a government employee????? Brilliant doesn't belong in the same sentence describing the last one I talked to.

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Hate to be a "Pain In The ...", ronno, Here's an idea...When you see lots of fellow right-wingers online here, that is the time to post these stories that you seem to pride yourself in finding on the web........If they weren't so long (I am setting you up here, if you have ANY imagination), might even read them myself...............

You the first person I have ever heard call something from the Huffington Post right wing.

If it's too much of strain on your mental resources, feel free to skip it.

Your strings are easy to pull........I can more than handle the strain, Bubba............

Bubba might be a greeting you folks use in the woods or the "holler", but that's not my name.

I know your name. Someone who claims to be from Wyoming should NOT attempt to cast insults at anyone............Well, maybe Idaho

Alright, I am not liking the direction this thread is taking. PLEASE stick to the topic at hand and not insult one another.

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