How to Whack a Liberal
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How it reads:
On paper, this campaign looks fairly standard. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, is staunchly in favor of abortion rights, while McCain, an Arizona Republican, has compiled a solid record over four Senate terms of opposing abortion.
How it should read:
On paper, this campaign looks fairly standard. Obama, an Illinois Democrat, is staunchly in favor of abortion rights, while McCain, an Arizona Republican, has compiled a solid record over four Senate terms of opposing abortion rights.
It's a subtle difference that makes all the difference in the world. It would be more obvious if it said:
Obama, an Illinois Democrat, is staunchly in favor of abortion.
That would be a profoundly inaccurate and unfair way of characterizing Obama's position. The decision to exise the word 'rights' from what McCain has opposed over four terms in the Senate is equally inaccurate and distorting.
Leave it to Joe to go to a convention that even many
prominent members of the party aren't attending, at the advice of their own congressional campaign chair! Just when you think Joe can't do a worse job of reading the public, he surprises you. I keep expecting Hillary to show up too, to accept the VP slot from Crash McGrandpa. Mediocrity and privilege, meet arrogance and ego.
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By UffdaguyAugust 20, 2008 - 3:21pm