"Joe S." <noname@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> If you thought the Republicans reached a new low in dirty campaign
tricks
> in the 2004 election, you ain't seen nothing yet.
>
> You can take it to the bank that if Barack Obama gets the Democratic
> nomination, the GOP will slime him in a manner that makes the
Swiftboating
> of John Kerry seem like a Sunday walk in the park.
>
> And in sliming Obama, the GOP can be counted upon to make maximum use of
> the biggest wedge issue in the Republicans' arsenal of dirty tricks.
It's
> a wedge issue that Republicans have shamefully used in election after
> election, ever since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
>
> Of course, I'm talking about race: the Mother of All Wedge Issues for
the
> GOP.
>
> For Republicans, it's the gift that keeps on giving, especially when
used
> as a tool to rally the Angry White Males that make up a sizable chunk of
> the GOP's base.
>
> And if you want to use race issues to rally the troops, then the
standard
> GOP playbook to consult is that of the late Republican political
> consultant and strategist Lee Atwater.
>
> For younger readers who may not recall him, Atwater was the notorious
> mastermind of the infamous "Willie Horton" attack ad in the 1988
campaign
> that helped George H. W. Bush overcome Michael Dukakis's early 17-point
> lead in the polls.
>
> It's a playbook that the GOP is certain to dust off and use in full
force
> as they gear up to attack Obama in the 2008 campaign. In short, it's
going
> to get increasingly ugly over the next few months.
>
> These days, most Americans believe that we're become an enlightened,
> color-blind society. But we're about to get a rude shock over how deep
> divisive racial issues still simmer below the surface of U.S. society.
>
> We've already seen a preview of how the GOP and its allies have
shameless
> used race to rally the troops in recent years.
>
> Just ask the African-American Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr.
>
> Ford, as you may recall, was targeted in 2006 by the infamous "Bimbo"
> attack ad that ****trayed a skimpily dressed white woman ***ily purring
to
> Ford, inviting him to "Call me."
>
> The NAACP attacked the ad as "a powerful innuendo that plays to
> pre-existing prejudices about African-American men and white women."
>
> It's clear that the Republicans and their allies will summon up the
spirit
> of Atwater and race-baiting politics as they prepare to slime Obama in
the
> months ahead. We're already seeing early evidence of this (such as Rush
> Limbaugh playing the racist "Barack The Magic Negro" on his program).
>
> And it's just the beginning. The GOP can be counted upon to exploit this
> issue as much as they shamelessly exploited the tragedy of 9/11 during
the
> 2004 campaign.
>
It sparks an acute episode of a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, caused by
a
US Army race riot in 1982! Ruining is a PT formation at Forth Drum New
York,
blacks on one side, whites on the other side, throwing rocks as big as
softballs, I looked only long enough to become blind and unconscious, and
awaking with a loud ringing in my ears, recovering for but a few months,
just long enough to OJT as a Medic, and pull the teeth of fellow warrior
out
of his throat, so that he would not die, and I took the Job of a Medic
under
the Colonel's urgent request, because among the multitude of injured that
we
patched up and ****pped to hospitals in that continuing race riot, were all
of our Medics. And yet they still have nothing in my medical records to
connect my sight loss as it fades in and out, or my hearing loss, or the
continuous ringing in my ears, or the Traumatic Bain Injury, or the
Multiple
Complex Seizure Disorder, or Migraine Headaches, or my PSTD, to the
softball
size rock that nearly killed me, as it squashed my eyes, and gave me
abnormal brain waves from the right side of my head, so that they can say
that it is not service connected.
For the Families of our boys coming home, make sure the VA don't put them
through what I have been through, they will try to say that many of their
injuries are not service connected, they deserve better than that. And
don't
let them give them mind control drugs for PSTD, even if they can tolerate
the bad side effects of the drugs long enough to get use to them, they
provide nothing that will help, and in the long run those Psychotropic
Drugs
will seriously hurt them.
See my Blog HTTP://JosephLoegering.blogspot.com
In service of God and Country
Joseph
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