A better November 3rd is just a whiteboard away
Here's Ron Johnson at the Green Bay Press-Gazette editorial board meeting on his plan, or lack thereof, to create jobs:
The disastrous meeting overall is, it's said, likely to have thrown the Press-Gazette endorsement to Feingold- along with, as of this past Sunday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Capital Times in Madison, the Oshkosh Northwestern, and the La Crosse Tribune.
It, along with several other refusals to detail his plans, have resulted in this fantastic TV ad from Camp Feingold out yesterday:
The ad is a simple yet brilliant mockery of Johnson's much-praised ads using whiteboards (an example of which can be found here). I've always thought taking a candidate's own words or images and using them against him/her- as we saw in Jerry Brown's devastating new ad demonstrating how Whitman is an "echo" of Schwarzenegger- hit the right buttons. And the closing line about who will stand up for Wisconsin is excellent. I'm not trying to play you or exaggerate when I say I really think this could be the game-changing ad of the campaign.
A few weeks ago I wrote a piece titled "The line between a mild headache and a severe hangover on November 3rd". As we approach the elections and forecasts are increasingly bleak, it may come down to- yes, a whiteboard. And so it's ever more important that Russ Feingold returns to stand tall. We're still 18 folks short of 100 supporters for Russ on our C&L ActBlue page. Surely we can do better. I've put mine in. Let's hit that goal and then some to make this ad the "closing argument" in Wisconsin.
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to reciprocate.
Matt Lauer put both candidates to the test on negative ads and in this clip you will see Whitman being booed by the audience after Brown says he's ready to make a deal and Whitman refuses:
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"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
I like Russ Feingold. It's hard to believe that John McCain put his name on a bill with him re: campaigning. Who knew the supremes would take care of campaign donations for us all for all time?
And another of the reasons I donated was so I could feel better on November 3rd. Go Russ Feingold!
I donated $50. i wish that it were more. America needs Russ to win!
something to do with he and his fellow zombies rising nightly from their graves, eating human brains, then selling the rest of the body parts to Chinese corporations to put in pet food.
How far off am I?
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
but I donated a little anyway. Russ is a national treasure, let's keep him in there! He doesn't just fight for Wisconsin but for all of us.
Because they aren't interested in giving details and the public that supports them apparently doesn't give a damn either. Details? They don't need no stinkin' details.
The FY2010 budget is online for all to read. Looks like it's been there for over a year. I found it in 7 seconds using The Google. It's not as if Johnson entered the race yesterday. All he and the other candidates have to do is assemble a "budget busting team" in their campaign and use it as a guide and spend a week or so going through it and pick out the top 10 things they'd cut or eliminate. He's had plenty of time to do this. It's even divided into neat little sections that even the most ignorant Republican can read.
That's the way campaigns are supposed to work. You name the things you'd cut, your opposition attacks you for it, and then you spend several months and the billions that the Chamber of Commerce throws at you convincing me, Mr. American Voter, why your plan is better for me and for the country.
Instead we have idiots who: refuse to go anywhere but Fox News; they run and hide from reporters after ignoring legitimate questions; they wrestle anyone opposing them to the ground and then have them arrested; and they bitch and moan that government does not and cannot create jobs and then say, hey, elect me and I'll bring jobs to my district (by requesting stimulus funds the day after going on Hannity and trashing ARRA as a waste of time and money).
It really is quite remarkable that when these jokers get asked where they would cut or how they would erase the deficit NONE of them come up with anything worth shit. NEVER! Spitzer asks his right wing guests where they would cut and he destroys them when they answer every time. Why don't people understand that these guys and gals are shysters who will say anything to rip them off of their vote?
By the way I donated too. We really need Feingold in the Senate but more importantly I really need that Neil Young print.
I donated more to Feingold, although it appears he is toast. I just don't understand how the people in WI can throw out such a great senator.
Where are we going? And what am I doing in this handbasket?
One of my long time friends is a Fox News drone. A few months ago, he informed me that he just hates Russ Feingold. He couldn't give me any specifics. As a conservative, he should have been happy that Feingold cast the only vote against the Patriot Act, which contains clear constitutional violations. He should have been happy that Feingold voted against TARP. He doesn't even know those things.
Johnson is running ads that he'd be the only manufacturer in the Senate. Johnson got into manufacturing the old fashioned way - he married into a manufacturing family. Johnson is an accountant who married the business owner's sister. I knew Johnson must be quite vapid when the Green Bay Press Gazette, which I've only ever seen endorse one Democratic candidate at any political level, endorsed Feingold and blasted Johnson.
But that information won't drift down to voters like my friend who fits into the angry white male category. My friend is very angry when he drives his concrete truck into Milwaukee and sees a "ghetto rodent" (his comment) sitting on the front stoop drinking a beer at 9:30 a.m. and it infuriates him that these people are sucking off his tax dollars. Yet, when I pointed out that his concrete truck driving is seasonal and that he draws unemployment compensation in the winter months, which is sucking off my tax dollars as a business owner, he asks why I am personally attacking him. He doesn't see the contradiction in his views. He accuses Obama of vast overspending but ignores the OMB chart I sent him that shows the greatest costs to the deficits are two unfunded wars and the unfunded Bush tax cuts.
It's all emotional with my rightwing friends. This emotion is immune to facts and reasoning. And this emotion, these angry white people, will take down one of the best senators Wisconsin has had and will put a lesser man in his place.
Workin' Joe
I can relate to your "issues" with your friend. I, too, have a long time friend (one of my best) who, nonetheless is, as you so well phrased it, a FN drone. Propaganda is a terrible, and terribly effective, thing. My friend, who is otherwise intelligent and well-educated, finds the FN approach emotionally satisfying. Thus, unfortunately, he ends up getting
mostall of his current-events & political info from the likes of Fox, Rush, etc. With enough time, patience and effort, he can actually be reasoned with (to some extent), but I feel weary whenever I just think about the number of times we've had conversations that basically ended up with him saying, "well, I didn't know about that" and me responding, "well, if you'd get some information from some other sources from time to time" (or, occasionally less polite words to that effect if I'm frustrated enough). It doesn't help that he's digitally-impaired enough to have trouble using Google... sigh.- Pretzelogic in Philly, PA
And now for some feedback: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
One of my friends is a retired high school coach of mine. He holds a masters in education and ran a successful business after leaving teaching. He recently sent me a mass email that fretted about how the dreaded ACLU was filing suit to keep the government from allowing crosses on soldiers' graves in our national cemetaries. I thought that odd, so within 30 seconds of starting Google, I was on a web site that proofed out these email rumors and found that the ACLU has never started such a suit and the ACLU states that it considers the grave markers to be an individual choice of the families and not a government sponsorship of religion.
I emailed this link to my friend with the statement that his mailing wasn't quite true. His reply was that the internet was great and a powerful tool to keep an eye on these subversive groups destroying the country. I wanted to reply that the internet was a great tool to check on dubious claims before emailing them around with one's name attached, but I value our friendship too much to risk it.
Both my friends are blind to everything but their anger. They're taxed too much, except for the fact that individual taxes are at the lowest rate since WWII. Obama is spending too much, except for most of the deficit comes from two unfunded wars and Bush's unfunded tax cuts. Health care reform will come between patients and doctors, except that it's health insurance reform that won't interfere between patient and doctor.
It's quite maddening.
Workin' Joe
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