Jerome, sometimes you are so inside, inside, baseball that it makes my head spin. Phil posted a terrific post on Huffington which says it all.
This guy is a hero. He has demonstrated that people powered politics is here to stay. Thank god for the internets.
I think his ad will end up harming Obama greatly. Why is he a hero?
This will be used to show Obama's new politics are anything but. That may be unfair, but most people will not see the nuance between working for the firm that works for the campaign and Obama himself. Jerome's opinion nothwithstanding, the guy did not help Obama - he is no hero.
I didn't say anything either way about whether it helped or hurt Obama-- I'd guess it's a wash.
This isn't really about Obama. It is about one man who was successful in getting a message out that was not controlled by political machines, consultants or mainstream mouthpieces. If you are suggesting that he souldn't have done it, I very much disagree.
No, I didn't suggest that either.
You and I have a different sense of ethics.
It is a pluralistic world and many people have different ethics than I do. In his position, I would not have done what he did. I hear you to be saying you would have.
Right and wrong are quite subjective, and people often differ. I guess we do on this. I certainly would not try to impose my views of ethical action on you. They are just for me.
How does this harm the man? I'm slow so I need cliff notes on this one. He WAS NOT INVOLVED! So how do it harm him again?
Because tards continue to blame him even though they know he had nothing to do with it. Unfortunatly, some of those tards are even in our party. This is how it hurts Barack Obama. People who secretly would never vote B...K , but can't say that as a Democrat, will use this as the perfect way out for them. They will dog Barack Obama and continue to tie him with this Ad in an effort to supress others from voting for Obama. They will use it to tap into that hidden Dixiecrat inside some Democrats. As you can tell, I am very upset with this guy. He sat on this and allowed Obama to be dragged through the mud. I don't believe he is an Obama supporter and I don't trust his motives. I don't care who vouches for him. We all have our own opinions and mines is, I don't feel one bit sorry for him. I don't have to pretend to like him just because his friends post here and if that turns out to be the case, that wil speak WORLDS about MyDD.
WORLDS!
Let's make it easier:
Suppose a John McCain staffer (or an employee of his Internet vendor), in his spare time, put together a devastating, funny YouTube video attacking Clinton for the scandals in her husband's White House.
He gets caught. But he says, "Oh, I wasn't directed to do that; it was all on me."
Wouldn't we, as Dems, demand that he be fired, because we'd believe that he was in fact directed to do it but the "voluntary" thing was a ruse?
He is a hero because he is one person doing what highly paid consultants have failed to do so far. I won't have a problem even if guerilla campaign using essential truths were used against my favorite Gore or Clark.
The South Park episode on Gore was much more juvenile and offbase and unfair, yet I still like South PArk and we need voices like that to keep people honest even if they disagree with us sometimes. So my support for this kind of a spirit has nothing to do with my distaste for Hillary though I do agree with the essence of the ad.
The guy has accomplished something that you or I ahve been unable to do so far in politics. He gets my respect.
