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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (31613)	6/22/2008 8:40:33 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 224836

Party leaders in Republican-leaning states are already reporting an influx of paid Obama staffers and volunteers who were sent there to begin registering potential Obama voters. Obama's team is also sending resources to Virginia, which no Democratic presidential candidate has won since 1964. The mobilization is being helped along by Obama's Internet operation specializing in reaching out to younger voters. Plouffe said the volunteer program was modeled after the one Bush's aides devised in 2004, when supporters went door to door to spread the word about Bush in their own neighborhoods. Four years ago, Democrats and their liberal allies scrambled to match the vast lists of personal voter data gathered by the Republicans through public records and consumer data banks. The Democratic National Committee has since greatly improved its voter information file, which is now at Obama's disposal. But Obama's aides were also considering buying another huge list with information on 230 million Americans. The list is owned by Catalist, a private concern co-founded by a longtime Democratic operative, Harold Ickes. Ickes said that Obama's campaign aides were particularly interested in new information his company had gathered about cable television viewing habits. Obama campaign officials said that was because they were considering a specially tailored commercial campaign on niche cable networks that could give Obama special access to groups his campaign considers crucial for victory. All of this is going to take more than the $43.1 million Obama had in the bank as of last month. Officials said they expected that Clinton's fund-raisers could bring in a total of $75 million in the coming weeks. But, members of both parties said, Obama had his real advantage in his own group of 1.5 million donors, many of whom have given small amounts and could be readily tapped again. "They'll continue to give," said Eli Pariser, the executive director of the liberal group MoveOn, an Internet fund-raising pioneer. "As long as he doesn't treat them as an ATM, but as partners in the movement."

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (31613)	6/22/2008 8:43:55 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224836

But both of Cindy McCain's staged, teary drug-addiction confessions have been vintage John McCain. His MO is this: Get the story out -- even if it's a negative story. Get it out first, with the spin you want, with the details you want and without the details you don't want. McCain did it with the Keating Five, and with the story of the failure of his first marriage (Cindy is his second wife). So what you recall after the humble, honest interview, is not that McCain did favors for savings and loan failure Charlie Keating, or that he cheated on his wife, but instead what an upfront, righteous guy he is. Candor is the McCain trademark, but what the journalists who slobber over the senator fail to realize is that the candor is premeditated and polished. John McCain shoots from the hip -- but only after carefully rehearsing the battle plan, to be sure he won't get shot himself.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (31613)	6/22/2008 8:50:54 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 224836

"Let's ask Cindy McCain if she's proud of her country when her husband vows to wage a 100 year war; when 35 million Americans go to bed hungry, struggle to put a roof over their heads and clothe their children; when children go to school in ramshackle buildings; when military men and women have to resort to food stamps and government handouts to feed their families and live in sub-standard housing. Was Cindy McCain proud of America when four little girls were bombed in Birmingham? Proud when James Byrd was dragged to his death in Texas? Was she proud when Little Rock tried to bar high school students from entering the high school to receive an education? Or how about when Native Americans go hungry on the reservation? Was she proud when Native children were taken from the parents to be Anglo-cized? Was she proud with Japanese Americans were interned during WWII? Was she proud when napalm was dropped on innocent civilians in Viet Nam? Or when we became the only country to use nuclear weapons, wiping the Hiroshima and Nagasaki almost off the map? "