Re: Is my government too big?

Posted by Roger Critchlow-2 on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Is-my-government-too-big-tp7580507p7580550.html

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 8:24 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES <[hidden email]> wrote:

Roger,
Two points:
1) Being a third party kind of guy, with no particular loyalty for or against Obama (though keeping a healthy fear of Romney), I share Owen's frustration at Obama's inability/unwillingness to clearly articulate his successes. His overall record includes a surprising number of major successes that few seem to know about.

What you're ignoring is the hundreds of millions of unprincipled dollars poised to take anything Obama says and twist it into an attack ad.  How do you argue with people who don't care about your arguments except as an opportunity to extract a sound bite that misrepresents them?  You give them as little to work with as is possible.  An itemization of this administration's accomplishments delivered in Obama's voice would be a cornucopia to the Republican SuperPAC's.

Meanwhile, out of nowhere, Sam Bacile's homage to Mohammed arrives, like some horrible caricature of Republican campaign ads -- who cares about facts as long as it works, the responsible parties hidden behind layers of aliases, the really effective bits added in post-production overdubbing and editing.

DNFTT

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