Exhibit A in these diversionary tactics is an absurd new attack ad President Obama has released taking my comments out of context. I’m not running for any office, but I’m more than happy to accept the dubious honor of being Barack Obama’s “enemy of the week” if that includes the opportunity to debate him on the issues Americans are actually concerned about. (Remember when I said you don’t need a title to make a difference?) – Sarah Palin on Facebook
Under the flimsy excuse of “vetting” Pres. Obama, the right is on a character assassination campaign. Sarah Palin and Sean Hannity are helping lead this fight, wailing about the need for the President to be scrutinized. After a full term in office it’s really an effort to demonize a man who they can’t beat on any other terms.
Right wing smear merchants don’t like when the subjects of their attacks fight back on the same terms. They scream bloody murder, which is what Breitbart.com is doing today. An excerpt:
In other words, she’s opposing Obama’s attempt to divide us along racial and class lines. Which is what Critical Race Theory is all about – it suggests that our charters of liberty are fundamentally corrupted and there is no possibility of true change so long as they hold sway.
Notice what Obama’s team left on the cutting room floor: the vast bulk of the interview about Bell and Maher. This is a selective editing hit-job designed to make Palin look like a racist. That’s how Obama’s team is fighting back. And that’s why we must not be afraid to vet this president. The dangerous rhetoric here isn’t Palin’s – it’s the rhetoric and philosophy that infused this president with his views on race relations. That must be exposed, despite all the bully tactics of the Obama left.
The late Andrew Breitbart was a big fan of Sarah Palin. The ad above has unhinged the crew he leaves behind.
There was a dust up recently with Suzanne Malveaux on CNN over critical race theory. Wingnuts define it as charges of white supremacy and racism by the followers and people wanting to discuss Bell’s theory, who was recently seen with Obama in a “blockbuster” video that went bust. However, what critical race theory is about is how laws impact minorities and whether they’re helped or hurt by what’s called progress through legal avenues.
HBO’s “Game Change” makes clear that Sarah Palin wanted to hit Obama on Rev. Wright hard, as did the Halperin – Heilemann book. At the time I got pilloried for writing the right would do exactly that, as well as use Bill Ayers against Obama. I was proved correct, because it’s exactly what they did in the general, but the American people rejected it, which was a relief.
Now that it’s time for Obama’s reelection, Sarah Palin and her extremist friends are trying to find another way to do the same thing they’ve been doing since Obama walked into the oval office.
It’s the same cast in a new minstrel show using race baiting to tell their old story a different way. It’s how people who aren’t racist use race to manipulate the gullible, uninformed and bigoted.
The only way to fight scurrilous attacks is to fight as dirty as they do. That Sarah Palin is squealing like a little girl proves Obama reelect hit the mark.
Ms. marsh, why would these overtly racist attacks have any weight if what you have told me several times….the base of the republican party is NOT racist?
As the recent poll re: Mississippi illustrated, there are ignorant and racist voters. That doesn’t make the entire base is racist. You and I simply disagree on this issue, sech. That’s okay.
However, as Jeb Bush & Chris Christie have proven by not being willing to run in 2012, the current climate is religiously charged and being driven negatively by fearmongering of all sorts.
Race baiting is about stoking fears people have, with this ad showing Sarah Palin talking in racial language.
It’s to send a message that Obama intends to fight as dirty as Hannity-Palin.
In my opinion this ad from the Obama campaign is not effective because (as usual) I can’t even understand what the hell Palin is trying to say.
Wonder why they decided to focus on her rambling.
What does she mean by the pre-civil war era? Is she referring to slavery and implying that Obama wants to take America back to that era. That would be absurd, but then again one never knows with the Palin-Beck-Sean-Limbaugh crowd.
Looked at the ad again. She really is not making any sense at all. It is silly of team Obama to take offense of something/someone that makes no sense.
This is a web ad, not for television. It is to rev up the base and lay a foundation in people’s minds.
After watching the personal attacks on the President over the last three years that has really nothing to do about policy, but has everything to do with Obama as a black man who is out of touch with so called american values, I think you can say race plays a major role with some on the right.
Everything from, he hangs around with radical terrorists, to he is a Muslim, to he wasn’t born in America is really all about race. For some on the right it is about a black man in the white house, and the likes of Palin, Hannity, Beck and some members of the republican party feed and fan the flames of racism threw their rhetoric.
It’s also as much cultural as anything, a tangent of the 99% feeling left behind.
The Obama administration’s incompetence on marketing the health care plan was really the tee off. It really gave people the *feeling* government was “taking over” and because the PR sucked, “death panels” & hyperbole won.
Wait until the Supreme Court comes down in June. What that could unleash…
So… there’s some tread left on the Palin wheel. Who knew?
As foil. I’ve come to the conclusion team Obama did it for their own amusement.
It was released around HBO’s “Game Change.”
They never took her seriously when she had clout back in 2010, so now that’s she’s part of the pundit peanut gallery they took their shot.
I have to agree with Isis. This ad does not move me at all. I’m supposed to be scared of a political has-been whose incompetence drove an adviser to her own campaign not to vote? Whose capacity for logic and articulation has, if anything, only gotten worse since 2008? Please. Sarah Palin is a laughingstock, not a bogey(wo)man.
I don’t know if this is the right forum for a message to Obama Re-Elect, but here goes. Don’t waste your time punching down or at phantasms. The folks you need to excite are not moved by such scare tactics. They are moved by entrepreneurial zeal, a profound urge to do something. They are active, not reactive. Crowdsourcing, collaboration, open source; these are the things that get them excited.
So here’s a thought. Instead of reprising 47-year old marches, announce a “Million Voter Drive.” Tell folks you’re going to beat the Republicans at their own game. How? By raising funds for buses to shuttle all those urban voters to the local DMV so they can get their non-driver licenses. Add that you are going to repurpose a significant portion of your $1 billion war chest for the effort. Three things will happen, none of which various marches can bring about: (1) You will scare the Republicans shitless; (2) You will boost voter turnout in the Fall by a significant amount; and (3) The resulting goodwill will actually boost, rather than deplete, your war chest. Yes, I know that Romney and the RNC will unleash a torrent of negative ads against you, and you need to be able to respond. But your own experience, as well as the Kony video, demonstrate that viral videos can buy you the kind of exposure and cachet that professional ads just can’t.
I just think you overcome by overcoming, not by locking hands and singing “We Shall Overcome.” And I’m not alone.
Yes, if only there was an organization that existed to help poor people and minorities access the political system to better represent themselves and help them be self-sufficient. Oh, wait, there was, and when the organization came in for a little bit of made-up criticism, the Democrats couldn’t line up fast enough to vote for what was clearly a bill of attainder designed to kill it.
This is definitely the wrong place to comment if you want to reach the Obama Administration or the national Democrats. We’ve been telling them this one way or another for quite some time now.
Democrats haven’t cared about the poor, or even the middle class, for a long, long time now. After all, where else are we going to go? Well, let’s see, we can go home and stay there on election day. Guess they didn’t think about that option.
This is definitely the wrong place to comment if you want to reach the Obama Administration or the national Democrats. We’ve been telling them this one way or another for quite some time now.
If only John Edwards hadn’t turned out to be such a weak man.
Yes, if only. Unfortunately, though, if it were entirely Edwards who was to blame for his failed candidacy, I think his trajectory would have been different. I don’t know if he would have won the nomination or not, but the news that convinced many of us he wasn’t ready for prime time broke after he was no longer a consideration. Lots of folks thought he was either too confrontational, or too liberal.
Unfortunately, a lot of people went for “Hope” over “here’s what we have to fight”.
Yep. And what a squandered opportunity it was too.
Excellent idea ogenic! I would donate for that ,no kidding. I am only giving this year to a select few people like Elizabeth Warren, who I would like to see get elected, not the DNC not DCCC not Obama. But I would love to contribute to getting people to DMV offices, I would volunteer to help.
Elizabeth Warren is an excellent example of a modern day stateswoman to me.
Thanks LL! I don’t even know if our election laws would permit something like that, but it sure beats another march.
One man’s race-baiting is another man’s race-card-playing.
Isn’t “vetting” usually best done before you give someone the job? Oh, wait, that’s how Sarah Palin ended up on the ticket with McCain, isn’t it? A rather large portion of this country seems to feel that prior planning doesn’t prevent poor performance.
That would be OK if they weren’t the people who end up being in charge of things…
Sometimes you put up some critical analysis worthing of reading, but then you go and spoil your track record with a puff piece of Obama cheerleading……without even a stitch of realistic placement in the electoral priority chart.
I will give your favorite charity $100 for every generally apolitical swing voter you get to post on this website that claims they either watch the Hannity show or, conversely, go to the AttackForce website.
Comparing the songs of the competing choirs will have zero impact on the election. The choirs have already decided who they are going to vote for.
If you want to do some good for the re-election of Obama, I would analyze why the WaPo has Romney beating Obama even after a person of such influence as you spent 3 solid months calling Romney every name in the book from dog-abuser to woman-hater to out of touch millionaire to flip-flopper to Middle east warmonger.
If you’re going to cheerlead, it would at least make sense to learn to be an effective one.
Izzat you Mr. Scarborough?
HA!
If you’re going to troll, it would at least make sense to learn to be an effective one.
“I would analyze why the WaPo has Romney beating Obama even after a person of such influence as you spent 3 solid months calling Romney every name in the book from dog-abuser to woman-hater to out of touch millionaire to flip-flopper to Middle east warmonger.”
You mean defining him accurately?