Why you have to stop screaming that Obama has to "Grow a pair"

[cliffordu]

The Republicans want Obama to get right down in the sewer with them. There is NO bottom to their slime, swill, or character assassination, as anyone who has seen the latest commercials can attest.

If Obama takes the bait, if he gets angry enough publicly to snap an angry phrase that is ONE millimeter over the top, he gets painted as this guy:



And this, my friends, is exactly what they want. Think about Ayers. Think about the radical Muslim fear/smear.

The second part is all about the volunteers - LOTS of people who are doing the heavy lifting in his campaign check in here regularly.

Every time someone denigrates the design of the Obama campaign, second guesses the people who get PAID to run the campaign, these volunteers MUST see it as an attack on their faith in the campaign. How difficult will it be to make that last three phone calls when Obama is called a wimp so many times that it is almost believable?? How easy will it be to blow off the last five doors on the block when the effort doesn't seem like it's making a difference?

I'm not talking about them quitting, I'm just talking about a diminished effort.

Every time we post these insults to the campaign we do the work for McCain.

He smears Obama, We smear Obama for not hitting back

Now Obama is being smeared twice. Even if the original smear is garbage, he still gets hit twice.

Obama has gone farther, smarter than just about anyone I have seen in the last couple decades. I believe his people know what they are doing.

I know it's frustrating and I get my rage on regularly....

But denigrating Obama wont do a fucking thing to make this campaign any easier to win.

[Curtland1015]

1. Yuppers. Nail on the head.

As much as we, and some of the media blab about Obama needing to get tough, it could easily ruin him.

Obama's color puts him under a different scope than most. He can yell. He can't rage.

[cliffordu]

2. Three words kill his chances outright "Angry Black Man..."

[1corona4u]

21. Exactly....I have a fight going on in videos about this right now...

[LooseWilly]

23. I agree...

Again.

Though earlier I suggested a comparison of him to Oakland Raiders fans who celebrate the Raiders going to the superbowl by rioting... if he "grows a pair" and "takes the fight to the streets"... and it would be a relatively easy comparison to sell to voters who're scared of black people.
What can I say? I live about 25 blocks from the coliseum here... and I was just lucky the rioters didn't find my car.

Cool and suave. Unflappable. Is that really such a bad set of characteristics for a President?

Ohh yeah, and I'll repeat. If he goes off and loses his temper, it not being his style, I think he'd just look like a spazz. And, I'd like to think that at least 52% of the voters would prefer to have a President who is not a spazz.

[FrenchieCat]

3. This may be coming from folks who forget that Obama is a Black man......

That's the only thing that I can think of.....plus he's running against an old man/War hero and a woman.

[cliffordu]

4. I'm thinking, too, it might be younger folks who don't understand how

dangerous it was just a few years ago for a black American to raise his hand (or even his voice) to whites - It's still like that in LOTS of places.

And most of the folks who are of a certain age and above look for that ALL THE TIME...

[1corona4u]

22. See my post above

[Kdillard]

5. Very well stated. Kicking and recing

[cliffordu]

6. Thank you.

[Plaid Adder]

7. Thank you, cliffordu.

I'd have posted this myself, but there's so little time, and so many people being WRONG on the Internet!

The Plaid Adder

[cliffordu]

11. You are quite welcome. I KNOW these sentiments have been posted here

many times, and I hope folks will take the sentiment to heart.

That being said, I specialize in being wrong oh, about 75-85% of the time....

[AwakeAtLast]

8. I'll give ya the 5th K & R

Although this pic makes me smile




:hi:

[cliffordu]

12. I love that one, too....

[elkston]

9. Agree. Excellent post. (eom)

[Gregorian]

10. I agree. But I also believe Obama is the man we see.

I see it in his face. It's why his girls are so sweet. It's his careful deliberation of plans for his administration.

And you're right on. The split second he blew it they'd be all over him. It ain't gonna happen.

This is so fun. I'm loving this contolled, composed, elegant man. As a Kucinich supporter, I see how Obama avoids the pitfalls Kucinich would probably have fallen into. It's great.

[calmblueocean]

13. So so so right. We forget that Obama doesn't get to play by the same rules as a white candidate.

Really, it's such an amazing achievement for him to be where he is right now that it's a wonder any of us think we're smarter than he is.

[bettyellen]

14. there are a lot of clueless immature people advocating this nastiness,,,

you have to wonder if they know who our candiadte is, that they want his character to change so drastically... how foolish they are. they reek of teenage testosterone surges - impossible to reason with. same folk photoshopping Sara on naked bodies and complaining how she's no longer fuckable. not helping things, are they?

[cliffordu]

16. Yep, Yep, and Yep.

And no, they don't help one damned bit. Which is why I am so over the top nasty to them.

[bettyellen]

27. yep! they sound more like Bristol's baby daddy talking about kicking ass if the fuck w/ us!!

half witted dip shits. cavemen wannabes.

[cliffordu]

30. Testosterone poisoning.

[blondeatlast]

35. You know, I taught in 8th grade and freshman HS English;

the bahavior is sooo familiar but I don't think it is wrong to assume that everyone on DU is an adult.

[cliffordu]

42. One would hope.....

:rofl:

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

15. I think the high road strat. has a pretty good chance to do it.

The other side is more or less self-destructing. No Drama Obama keeps going.

[cliffordu]

18. That's right - Tweety and the others would NOT have tossed a fit yesterday

if Obama had snapped a counter-ad to the sex-ed smear.

Obama's people called it "dishonorable" and let that word hang in the air. Perfect, when you remember that Obama has consistently said that McCain is an honorable veteran......

[Danger Mouse]

17. But but us DUer's know better than Obama and his advisors how to win!!

He must listen to us!!!!!
Good post.
Well said.

[cliffordu]

20. Thanks.....I felt the need to atone....Or at least explain myself after being soooo

shitty to a couple folks this morning....

[Danger Mouse]

24. What happened?

And honestly, some of the chicken little's at du piss me off to no end. They're worse than PUMA's, to me.

[cliffordu]

29. I got too involved with the back and forth....really nasty...Generally I try

to attack the argument rather than the individual...sometimes that is difficult.


In my defense, there WERE a rash of the nasty little shits running through the halls for a couple hours...

:rofl:

[Danger Mouse]

36. Yes, there were. I've seen drooling morons who want obama to tell McCain to fuck off and stuff like

that. ugh.

[blondeatlast]

31. They ARE worse than PUMA's because many ARE on our side; they are just inexperienced

in politics and unwilling to see another way.

[Danger Mouse]

39. And perfectly willing to drag us through the mud to win a meaningless victory.

[cliffordu]

41. Yep - Or they are operatives trying to astroturf a little FUD...

(Fear Uncertainty and Doubt)

This has a long and illustrious career as a tactic - Microsoft used to IMPLY that other OS's were inferior with faked up tests and bought and paid for reviews that supported their "concern" for the end user......

It worked until Linux came along, ironically, another community-grown effort.........

[Cha]

40. Especially some..they know everything but

apparently having been paying attention the last 19 months.

[1corona4u]

19. I have been fighting a thread in videos about this all night....

WE DO NOT NEED TO DO THIS!!!!

[Ichingcarpenter]

25. That's our job to slam McCain..... Obama needs to remain Presidential

We own the web

[cliffordu]

32. DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER!!!!

"We own the web." Precisely!

Your pictures will arrive tomorrow. Scouts honor.

[Ichingcarpenter]

33. No problem.. I've waited 20 years

so tomorrow is no problem.

[cliffordu]

43. You asked me 20 YEARS ago???!!!!???/ WTF have I been DOING all this time??/

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

37. Amen, amen, AMEN! nt

[blondeatlast]

26. Absolutely. While they mock Sarah Palin's inexperience, their immature insistence on their way

only mimics what frightens rational people about her.

I'm just old enough to remember the civil rights movement (I was tiny, maybe 3-4, but you don't forget the likes of firehoses on humans) and I'm still all too aware of the latent racism in this country (and I'm married to a man of color and have a mixed race son).

You are spot-on. Thank you for the sanity! k/r

[cliffordu]

44. Thanks!

:patriot:

[angee_is_mad]

28. Amen, Brotha

K&R

[cliffordu]

45. Thanks!

:hi:

[Zombie2]

34. Obama knows what the fuck he's doing...

It's up to us to hold media accountable and try to get more out of our fellow Americans.

If McSame's (S)elected, America's going to get exactly what it deserves... and it's going to be far worse than the same.

Rage on!

:kick: & Recommended

"GET UP... GO GET EM!" ~ Joe Biden 09/08/08

[Zombie2]

38. dupe.... n/t

[skepticscott]

46. Obama and Biden don't need to lower themselves

to the level of sleaze and slime that their opponents have sunk to. But they DO need to stop campaigning as if this were a fair fight against honorable opponents. It is not. And for pity's sake, they both need to get over this insane need to keep saying something nice about McCain and Palin every other day. That's not their job. And McCain and Palin will never reciprocate. Every word out of Obama and Biden needs to either stress their positives or their opponent's negatives. And they should never, ever, EVER apologize for anything.

In the end, the only thing that matters is getting to the White House. If they do, it doesn't matter a damn how they got there or what people say about how they got there. If they don't, nothing matters, period.

[TheKentuckian]

47. I'm at least a Captain in the Angry Army

but I consistently believe Obama and Biden are tearing assholes. He probably could have busted McCain's melon over the disgusting and rehashed sex ed commercial.
A little hint of James Evans Sr, in that situation may have been warranted and even respected but 9/11 and all he choose to condemn without going ballistic and it will pay off.

I'm just not sure how much more belligerent a candidate can be.
I see Barack and Joe and almost every time, I'm like DAAAAMMMMNNNNNNN!!!!! They are tearing them UP!!!

Of course, I can remember the time when it was more of a disagreement on policies but now it's an ugly ass war. Some think it's not that bad, and others can't grasp that you MUST play a game.

I see it as our job to bring the heat and pressure the media and elected officers. Certainly, we can truly get into the muck. Hell, we can probably push it to a near menace level.

Obama is not us, we are free to be hostile militant assholes.

[cliffordu]

48. Yep, I advocate hostility and name calling towards Gramps and Mooselini

in all it's forms and permutations.

As long as it's graphic and personal. Don't want any stereotyping.

[angee_is_mad]

49. k

kick

[blondeatlast]

50. k/nt

[blondeatlast]

51. k

[blondeatlast]

52. k

[cliffordu]

54. Thanks for all the kicks, kiddo!!

[azmouse]

53. I do think this time around many Americans

are seeing through the RW smear machine.
They know what it did to this country for the last 8 years and they don't want any more of it.

We will see victory in November and we will do it with an honorable candidate.

[cliffordu]

55. I hope so - and you know all the "grow a pair" crowd will take credit for all the

unfailing support they gave him...just till they start concern trolling for the lack of a hostile foreign policy like the one they are used to....

[Raffi Ella]

56. AMEN

Thank You!

:kick: