With so much at stake, and time running short, Frederick did not feel he had the luxury of subtlety. He climbed atop a folding chair to give 30 campaign
volunteers who were about to go canvassing door to door their talking points -- for instance, the connection between Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden:
"Both have friends that bombed the Pentagon," he said. "That is scary." It is also not exactly true -- though that distorted reference to
Obama's controversial association with William Ayers, a former 60s radical, was enough to get the volunteers stoked. "And he won't salute the
flag," one woman added, repeating another myth about Obama. She was quickly topped by a man who called out, "We don't even know where Senator
Obama was really born." Actually, we do; it's Hawaii.
Virginia GOP Head Tells Volunteers: Compare Obama To Osama
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Posts: 917 (10/12/2008 12:50 PM) |
If John McCain is as serious as he says about running a "respectful" campaign against an opponent he considers "a decent person," word
hasn't yet trickled down to his newly opened storefront field office in Gainesville, Virginia. ...
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Oy. Poor Jenna Bush. She has a racist idiot for a FIL.
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Posts: 1631 (10/12/2008 1:04 PM) |
This stuff almost makes me cry, it's so frustrating to listen to.
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Posts: 8235 (10/12/2008 3:03 PM) Current Events Scoop '07 |
Lady G wrote:To play devil's advocate, though, there is a distinct difference between the Virginia State Repub Party (Frederick is the Chair of the state party and a state legislator) and the Virginia McCain Campaign. (It's NOT this way on the Dem side - they are one and the same in most states.) The Repub State Party isn't an inclusive part of the McCain operation and isn't held to the standards, privy to the same info, etc. So yeah, complete fuck up in the sense that the McCain staffers should've better prepped their surrogate - but not necessarily indication that McCain isn't serious about running a "respectful" campaign. In other words, you can only control your people - you can't tightly control the people outside of your campaign. |
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