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In reply to the discussion: Tell me more about how this White House doesn't know how to negotiate, we're all fucked, etc... [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)"The right wing thrives on vitriol, hate and divisiveness. When the bile they spew goes unchallenged, their disease infects the people around them. They will not lie down, Mr. President. You are going to have to put them down - with true progressive action, not the frail rhetoric of appeasement.
No one has ever proclaimed a die-hard commitment to centrism. No one has ever held a rally to support bipartisanship. Those are Washington DC catchphrases that mean nothing, serving only as a fog for professional politicians huddling together inside the beltway, too timid and too immersed in campaign logic to stand for anything."
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And his theory that Rick Warren's bigotry won 2008 for Obama. Not Obama, not Axelrod, not the American Electorate. Rick Warren won 2008 for Obama:
"What is better for America in the long run? Keep Warren off that stage, or keep winning Red states and annihilate the GOP? Put Warren up there, and maybe we keep winning, and after enough wins, there won't be any more "Warren" types in enough numbers to bother with."
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Pitt is all over the place and his only metric seems to be 'correct = what Will is doing, incorrect is what others especially gay others, are doing.