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Crooks and Liars: Pick a meme, any meme

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As a rule, Republicans appreciate the value in defining the Democratic presidential nominee, and the GOP is usually pretty good at it. In 2000, Al Gore, they said, was an “exaggerator.” In 2004, John Kerry, they said was a “flip-flopper.” Four years later, the effort to define Barack Obama is proving to be more difficult. The GOP has experimented with a few different memes, but they haven’t stuck yet. Some even contradict each other. For months, Karl Rove Co. has sought to characterize Obama as a dangerous outsider who we don’t really know and can’t trust. More recently, Rove and his cohorts reversed course, and went with the opposite message: Obama isn’t a dangerous outsider anymore, now he’s an elite insider . This week, Rove used...
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Posted By: JustAJoe (July 1, 2008 at 10:23 PM)

You don't get elected as a dog catcher in Chicago without the vetting of the Daley Political Machine. By definition, representing the Daley machine, he is an outsider in present day Washington, the machine having lost most of it's influence.

But considering it is ran by a second generation Daley, "Change" is not what it is about with Obama. Old style patronage and race-based government programs, as preached in his church and exemplified by the disfunctional and race based leadership of the Chicago school system what his "Vision" is about.

There has got to be a meme here somewhere.

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