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August 12th at 10:52AM

Mark Penn on How Not to Run a Campaign

POSTED BY: Dylan Ris

Unsure of who wrote the playbook for John McCain's increasingly negative campaign against Barack Obama? Well have you considered former Hillary Clinton strategist Mark Penn?

According to the upcoming issue of The Atlantic, Penn was pushing Clinton as far back as March 2007 to raise public doubts on Obama's "roots to basic American values and culture." Regarding Obama's virtues as a multicultural candidate, Penn opined, "Save it for 2050," adding...

"I cannot imagine America electing a president during a time of war who is not at his center fundamentally American in his thinking and in his values."

Sounds like Penn had been receiving e-mails intended for somebody's Jewish grandmother in South Florida. Or maybe he was the one sending them. Who knows.

And what's more American than stirring up racial tensions?

"If you believe that serious issues need to be raised then we have to raise them without continual hesitation and we should be pushing the envelope. Won't a single tape of [the Reverend Jeremiah] Wright going off on America with Obama sitting there be a game ender?

"Many people... believe under the surface that 20 years sitting there with Goddamn America would make him unelectable by itself."

It might very well have been a "game ender," but such a tape never showed up.

However, having no strategy past New Hampshire, blowing through money like MC Hammer and openly courting the George Wallace wing of the Democratic Party seemed to do the trick quite nicely.

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When scare campaigns stop working they'll stop using them. So far no one's proven to the Republicans that they don't work.

by evan202 August 13th at 1:47AM
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May 23rd at 10:57AM

John McCain Voids John Hagee from the Bowels of His Campaign

POSTED BY: CubbyChaser

Years from now, people will look back on the 2008 presidential election and say, "Wasn't that the one in which the candidates spent all time debating important issues of foreign policy and the finer points of economic stimuli?"

And then other people will say, "No. I don't know which election you're talking about. 2008 was the one with all the wacky preachers."

In the face of mounting controversy over headline-grabbing statements from Pastor John Hagee, CNN has learned presumptive Republican nominee John McCain has decided to reject his endorsement...

"Obviously, I find these remarks and others deeply offensive and indefensible, and I repudiate them. I did not know of them before Reverend Hagee's endorsement, and I feel I must reject his endorsement as well," McCain said in a statement to CNN Thursday.

Repudiate and reject. Check? But does he renounce, deny, disacknowledge, disavow, disclaim and disown them?

Okay, this is actually kind of nice. Now McCain and Barack Obama have some common ground on which they can build a mutually respectful, intelligent and nuanced conversation about valid issues like--

He added that his relationship with Hagee did not compare with Obama's lengthy association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright. "I have said I do not believe Senator Obama shares Reverend Wright's extreme views. But let me also be clear, Reverend Hagee was not and is not my pastor or spiritual advisor, and I did not attend his church for twenty years. I have denounced statements he made immediately upon learning of them, as I do again today," said McCain.

What was I saying? Nevermind.

Say, what's that wacky preacher have to say about all this?

In a statement released before McCain rejected his endorsement, Hagee said his words had been taken out of context. "The intentional mischaracterization of my statements by an Internet journalist seeking to use me as a political football in the upcoming presidential race is a gross example of bias at its worst. I will not stand idly by while my character is assassinated and my views on the Holocaust are grossly distorted."

Yes! God damn America! God damn America for doing that to such a fine man.


Update: McCain decided to go ahead and rejects the endorsement of that "Islam is an anti-Christ religion" wacky preacher guy, for good measure.

Maybe this is all a good thing. Maybe this is all helping to finally separate church and state; it's just becoming a hazard for politicians to accept endorsements from religious leaders. And I don't see religious leaders stopping saying idiotic things that offend somebody or other anytime soon. If they did, they wouldn't be religious leaders.

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Now that both candidates have been pastorized, thus destroying any bacteria, protozoa, molds, and yeasts, the country can now have a clean election. Hey Cubby-Check out my post at gelotologytoday.blogspot.com for the latest on these Reverend's big Preach-Off!