Indeed, Hillary and Bill Clinton’s bag of tricks is filled with many more of these:
The negative phone calls are known by experts as push poll calls because they push negative information.
“Some foreign policy experts say that John Edwards’ plan to pull out all combat troops in Iraq within the next 10 months is irresponsible,” says the questioner. “Does this statement influence your feeling about John Edwards a lot, somewhat, not too much, or not at all?”
On Obama, the caller says, “Barack Obama has taken millions of dollars from big banking and energy interests that have legislation before the Senate. Does this influence your feeling about Barack Obama a lot, somewhat, not too much, or not at all?”
Listen to part of the call here.
The caller said the calls were coming from an “independent research firm.” The caller ID showed no return number, only 000-000-0000.
The call made no reference to Sen. Hillary Clinton, whose campaign spokesman “categorically denied” it had any connection to the Clinton campaign.
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WatchMojo NewsletterLast week, the NYT decided to reward warmongering neocon William Kristol with a writing gig. In his first attempt he regurgitated much of the drivel that has hampered America in the past 8 years.
Then today, the Washington Post returns the favor by letting the grandson of Gandhi, yes, that Gandhi, publish something that basically calls Jews a violent, warmongering people because they leverage what happened during the Holocaust to their advantage.
Now, I’ll be the first to criticize Israel’s heavy-handedness, double-standards (much as I criticize Radical Islamists who take every opportunity to derail a peace process) but I think branding all Jews as Mr. Gandhi does is wrong. Had he accentuated Israel - and not all Jews - then agree or disagree he would be echoing what many say. But by lumping all Jewish people, many of whom disagree and harshly criticize Israel’s action, then he’s just adding to the problem and not really offering any solutions. Obviously, I’m not alone in that rationale.
That’s like me saying all Americans are crazy because Bush et al. have destroyed the great American empire with their escapades in Iraq…
Iran has never started a war… it was attacked by Iraq - at the behest of Sunni Arab Nations and then encouraged, financed and armed by France, Germany the US - and today it is threatened by Israel and the US consistently. The US is in Iraq even though Iraq posed no threat to it, yet George Bush today alleged that it is Iran that causes a threat to world peace.
The only hope for the world, frankly, is for the US to be wounded psychologically about the specter of launching wars right and left… Watching the Presidential debates I thought it was funny that during the entire Bush regime America has been at war… and the Republicans didn’t really see any problem with that. What good is it to praise “our brave men” if we keep sending them to an early grave?
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