Obama's "Dick Move of the Week"

[ElsewheresDaughter]

Apparently Obama's campaign decided to once again take the high road.


This time by bribing a college campus's students, predictably enough, with tickets to Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds.

As if that weren't bad enough, they did this when? And why?

Because Bill Clinton was speaking on that very campus.



Ah yes. Full of integrity those folks are.


YES WE CAN!


Jon Stewart unveiled a new feature: The "Dick Move of the Week" (presumably a recurring segment). "As the race wears on, you're going to start to see the campaigns behaving a little bit more aggressively, trying to score points on the other guy," said Stewart. "But there is a very fine line between an aggressive move and what Beltway insiders refer to as — a bit of a dick move." See why the Obama campaign got the nod here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/09/jon-stewart-awards-obama_n_95875.html

[mckeown1128]

1. Are you just as outraged about HIllary bribing people with

Elton John tickets???

[JimGinPA]

4. That Was Different...

That was an expensive fundraiser while Dave Matthews did a free concert.

And the "Dick Move" bit was early this week and a couple threads have already been done about it.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

7. Its the fact that he runs on this program and message of change, and

he is nothing then a garden variety, every day politician.

If he were to extol the virtues of his campaign (which, for all intents and purposes, is no different from hillarys) by giving his own speech at the same time, thats one thing.

But to bribe voters, which is exactly what that was, a sleazy fucking bribe. And to do it while Clinton is giving a speech, as a means of distracting the students from seeing it, is PURE fucking sleaze.

Its not as if this was a clash of schedules. This was a deliberate distractionary tactic, from the "washington outsider" who wants to change the dirty politics of this nation.

Please. What a fake.

[AllentownJake]

9. You know

You could right an original reply instead of cutting and pasting. Your wasting server space doing that :-)

[JoFerret]

27. Obama folk DO need to realise he is a

politician.
otherwise the comedown will be unsupportable.

[AllentownJake]

2. Do you guys

Post the same thing everyday...this is really breaking news.

You all are just jealous we can give away our tickets and our guys have had a hit record in the past 15 years that wasn't for a Disney movie.

[AllentownJake]

3. Dick Move of the weekend

Having your supporters show up at the other candidate's campaign office to protest the other candidate.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. There is systematic pattern with all Obama supporters;

they never try to defend Obama with proving the falsehood of the accusations, but instead they justify Obama’s action by pointing out the assumed actions of the others.

[AllentownJake]

6. I think it was great

Dave Matthews is more popular than Bill Clinton. If Bill was so moving they'd be in their seats.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

8. Its the fact that he runs on this program and message of change, and

he is nothing then a garden variety, every day politician.

If he were to extol the virtues of his campaign (which, for all intents and purposes, is no different from hillarys) by giving his own speech at the same time, thats one thing.

But to bribe voters, which is exactly what that was, a sleazy fucking bribe. And to do it while Clinton is giving a speech, as a means of distracting the students from seeing it, is PURE fucking sleaze.

Its not as if this was a clash of schedules. This was a deliberate distractionary tactic, from the "washington outsider" who wants to change the dirty politics of this nation.

Please. What a fake.

[Hawkeye-X]

10. So nothing new to add of substance?

Alllllllrighty then.

Hawkeye-X

[rodeodance]

11. well well.

[rodeodance]

12. REC

[Starbucks Anarchist]

13. College students can't afford $2,500 to see Elton John.

[slick8790]

16. And I seriously doubt many of them would want to, even if it was free. n/t

[hedgehog]

14. I thought it was in the finest tradition of the legendary DIck Tuck

In 1962 Nixon was touring the Chinatown section of Los Angeles as a gubernatorial candidate. Tuck arranged for Chinese-speaking residents of the area to greet him with signs that said 'Welcome Nixon' in English at the top, but at the bottom said "What about the Hughes Loan?" in Chinese characters. The Hughes loan referred to a highly suspect loan that the billionaire Howard Hughes had given to Nixon's brother Donald. Nixon, of course, didn't know what the signs said, so he waved happily at the sign-bearers while they all laughed back at him.


By 1968, when Nixon was running for President, Tuck had managed to make Nixon's campaign managers so paranoid that they began to undermine themselves. When a huge shipment of buttons printed in Greek, Chinese, and Italian arrived at Nixon's campaign headquarters to be distributed at various ethnic rallies in New York City, Nixon's campaign manager, remembering the 1962 incident with the Chinese signs, ordered that all the buttons be destroyed, just in case Tuck had tampered with them (he hadn't).

However, Tuck was up to his usual tricks during this campaign, such as when he hired several pregnant women to show up at Nixon rallies carrying signs that read "Nixon's the One."

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/tuck.html

[guruoo]

15. Theirs is a familar brand of "ethics"

"why did you do this? <(try to impeach me)>",
he said Gingrich smiled looking him right in the eye, and said
"Because we can".

[tishaLA]

17. Too bad. Dave Matthews is popular

and the former president has wasted much of his popularity.

[TragedyandHope]

18. Jon Stewart has never been more out of touch

with his audience.

[golddigger]

24. There it is! Another one thrown under the Obama bus. It sure is getting crowded under there.

:wow:

[Pisces]

19. I love it, just like when he cut her speech off when she refused to congratulate him

[unblock]

20. upstaging the other candidates has always been a part of campaigning

as has showing up with celebrities or free food and entertainment.

what's really dickish is abusing the power of your current office to show up a competitor, but that's a very well-ingrained tactic.

merely upstaging someone else, especially when you can score some entertainment who can draw crowds, well, that's what politics is all about. hillary is free to do the same.

[Hippo_Tron]

21. That's politics, if Hillary can't handle this, she's certainly not prepared for the General Election

[golddigger]

22. K&R...For the" Dick move of the week." LMAO!

[JackORoses]

23. serves Bill's old race-baiting ass right

There's a new kid in town, Bill. You just don't got it like you used to.

Quit trying to hold onto the past, it is very unbecoming.

[golddigger]

25. Yep, there's a new kid in town, Bill! Time to change his diapers.

:evilgrin:

[JackORoses]

26. Bill wears Depends? Damn old age!

I bet he at least gets astronaut grade diapers, being the former President and all.