Just bitter words...

[iplaw]

Maybe Rush's 18th annual fundraising drive for lymphoma and leukemia research really got him pissed off this week.

[Bledsoe]

quote:Originally posted by Conan71

So was the McCorkle camp exposing Kathy Taylor's property tax and voting records an example of "Republicanism" Bledsoe?

It seems to me the exposure of this information was an act of desperation--that obviously did not work.  

Some have said that Clinton (and her surrogates) are doing somewhat of the same thing in her discussion of the the Rev. Wright, bitter/cling, William Ayers and flag-pin "issues."  It is more out of the Republican play book that got really started with the "Contract on America" in 1994 and was run over a cliff by the drive to impeach  Bill Clinton and by Tom Delay and his friends.  
The Republican campaign machine may not be able to stop themselves from continuing these tactics.  

When Democrats draw from this play book, while it sometimes has short-term success, more often than not it ends with exhaustion:  i.e. Clinton fatigue.  

These "mistakes" by Obama--which only cause me to support him more strongly--IMHO, pale in the face of the many many strategic mistakes made by Clinton.  Do I really need to list them?  I think not.

For the real issues--there is little difference between Clinton and Obama.  Both are much better than any Republican.

Two "real" issues did jump out for me from the Philadelphia debate:

1.  Clinton's proposal to create some sort of Middle East NATO.  This is very very questionable to me and has gotten little press.

2.  Obama's proposal to consider raising the capital gains taxes.  Surely he does not propose to raise any general tax during a recession.  I think this would delay any recovery.  It is right out of Herbert Hoover's play book.  Targeted progressive adjustment to the capital gains tax and other similar taxes should only be considered after the recovery is well underway. (Except perhaps some excess profits tax on the oil and gas industry as long as the price of oil is over $75 per barrel).

Note:  I do strongly agree that FICA taxes should be applied to wages in excess of $97K.  Perhaps some phase-in and progressive adjustment for those wages between $97K and $250K and for those making less than $25K (putting walk around $ in the hands of those who will spend it) until the  recovery is well underway.  But at the end of the day this is the easiest and fairest fix.

Sorry I got off topic.