Hey Kos, If anbody is a Republican its Senator Obama

Dear Kos,

I have to say that you are suffering from a truthiness deficiency syndrome. You see if anybody in this campaign has been running as a Republican it has been Senator Obama. I can give you several examples, I will give you just two.

1. First in that famous interview to LV Review Journal, he dissed on the diviseness of the ant-war and civil rights movement. Maybe you are getting your facts mixed up or maybe its me, but I thought those two movements are the bedrock of the Dem party.

2. In that rather infamous speech in which the good senator suddenly turned sociologist-in-chief and dissed the good Dems from small rural towns (who rather remarkably remain Democratic inspite of their adherence to Church) and virtually called them racists, he also dissed on the economic record of a Dem President. And it just turns out that the economic record of the Dem President was excellent and indeed better than any other Dem President in the last 40 years (the other Dem President being that good man from Georgia who just wasn't ready for being President). And it was also probably better than any president in the last 25 years. So complaining about that record which most people fondly remember as good times is  a ``REPUBLICAN'' tactic.

Anyways, who knows what you have been promised by the Obama campaign, but I sure hope that it is worth it for you are loosing credibility by the second.

Thanks.  

PS: Some comments on my post seem to have missed my point. I never claimed that Senator Obama is a Republican. I said and I repeat that ``If anybody is ...'' I was merely pointing out the remarkable inanity of Kos's position that attacking another Dem is being a Republican. He should have applied that standard to Senator Obama (and to himself, btw).

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Highly RECd (2.00 / 2)

You tell him girlfriend!


Donate to Hillary Now!
by alegre on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 10:13:19 AM EST

Re: Highly RECd (1.50 / 2)

Alegre, good Lord! There's just nothing I can say about this. You're taking you not inconsiderable talent and squandering it on this partisan bickering?


Hooray for John McCain!
by ragekage on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 10:15:34 AM EST
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HURRAY! For the excellent diary... (1.50 / 2)


Hooray for John McCain!
by ragekage on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 10:14:27 AM EST

Re: Hey Kos, If anbody is a Republican its (2.00 / 1)

Now the most liberal Senator in Congress is a Republican.

Next you'll be saying he gave Hillary the bird.


by chewie5656 on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 10:24:34 AM EST

No, Sister Mary Rose! (2.00 / 1)

I didn't flip you the bird, I was scratching my nose!

Hahaha... Great memories of my youth.

:)


by JimR on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 11:09:42 AM EST
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Truthiness? (2.00 / 1)

You know that "truthiness" isn't "truthfulness," right?  

Colbert just goes right over the heads of some people.

1. Obama dissing anti-war and civil rights?  Are you sure you want to go there?  I couldn't find the interview you were talking about in five minutes of Googling, so I'm not sure it's so "famous."

2. The "speech" you're talking about wasn't.  He was answering a question, and flubbed it with phrasology. He did say that Bill Clinton didn't bring back the manufacturing jobs, but that much was reasonably true.  This is something that both Obama and Bill Clinton agree on.  You gotta have a thick skin to be in politics.  Brush it off.


In this avalanche, the pebbles get to vote.
by Dracomicron on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 10:32:46 AM EST

Re: Hey Kos, If anbody is a Republican its Senator (2.00 / 1)

EYES!  You were given them so use them.  

You can use this argument.

But not unless you count Hillary's courting of McCain the war-hero-in-chief, reliance on guilt-by-association character assassination and doubletalk as gruesome as the things you claim here.


by Mardarkin on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 10:38:09 AM EST

Re: Hey Kos, If anbody is a Republican its Senator (2.00 / 2)

not addressing the crux of your argument - but kos is one of the biggest DOUCHES on the internet - and thats saying alot.


"Me Fail English? That's Unpossible." Ralph Wiggum
by canadian gal on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 10:38:41 AM EST

Re: Hey Kos, If anbody is a Republican its Senator (2.00 / 1)

Thank you for this diary sooooo much...!!!!

I kept making the point yesterday that Clinton supporters were calling Obama a Republican amid all of the talk yesterday about the reverse and I think it fell on deaf ears (well, eyes, this is a blog)... but today, voila...  we have recent evidence!


Like the nominee, don't like the nominee... Our nominee is still better than John McCain...
by JenKinFLA on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 10:40:33 AM EST

Re: Hey Kos, If anbody is a Republican its Senator (2.00 / 1)

Yes, he of most liberal voting record in the Senate is a Republican.

http://time-blog.com/real_clear_politics /2008/01/national_journal_obama_most_li. html

To bad record trumps your rhetoric, but rhetoric is all you got, isn't it?

Insert a quarter and play again!


"I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together." - William Jennings Bryan
by pinche tejano on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 11:10:24 AM EST

What's weird about that is that the liberal wing (2.00 / 1)

of the party supports him.


My candidate lost fair and square. So did yours. Get over it and let's kick McSame's ass!
by RLMcCauley on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 11:52:38 AM EST

Re: Hey Kos, If anbody is a Republican (none / 0)

Precisement.  All his hooey about post-partisan this, and reaching across the aisle that, is fairy tale dreamland stuff.  Post-partisanship requires honest brokers on both sides, and Republicans are not honest.  Republicans are not to be trusted, not to be appeased, not to be negotitated with.  Any good Democrat, like Clinton, that knows anything about Republican politics wouldn't trust a wingnut as far as he could throw him/her.

Republicans are to be opposed at every turn, not compromised with.  Knuckling under worked out so well for us so far, hasn't it?


No politician ever lost an election because he underestimated the intelligence of the American public. - PT Barnum, paraphrased...
by jarhead5536 on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 12:26:19 PM EST

Obama's not a Republican ... but .... (none / 0)

Kos has gone over the deep end.

His Partisanship has blinded him to reality: all he cares about is breaking the color barrier to the White House.  That's it in a nutshell, no questions about it.

As far as Obama goes, his recored is very liberal (as is Hillary's), but in my opinion, he's a chameleon and will fool lots of folks once he is in the office.  He most likely will be the nominee: he has a chance of winning the office, but don't for one minute discount the 'unhappy' GOP voters who are now returning to McCain.  Some of those folks are the ones who assisted Obama in getting to where he is now, what 3% to 4% ahead of Clinton, which is NOT a 'mandate' by any means.  He will not have the cakewalk he has had in the primary process, no sir indeed.

Oh, and I forgot: dKos can slide off the face of the earth as far as I am concerned, especially after Kos's recent declaration about Hillary.  Now THAT deserves a 'bird' if ever anything did!


Hell's bells, even the GOP didn't have to crucify Eisenhower's record in order to make Reagan their 'saint'. We can have two great ones, you know?
by emsprater on Fri Apr 18, 2008 at 02:00:16 PM EST


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