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Fournier outsources AP anti-Obama attack
Daily Kos —
This time, it's Charles Babington. Barack Obama, whose campaign theme is "change we can believe in," promised Thursday to "spell out exactly what that change would mean." But instead of dwelling on specifics, he laced the crowning speech of his long campaign with the type of rhetorical flourishes that Republicans mock and the attacks on John McCain that Democrats cheer. The country saw a candidate confident in his existing campaign formula: tie McCain tightly to President Bush, and remind voters why they are unhappy with the incumbent. Of course, no candidate can outline every initiative in a 35-minute speech - especially one that also must inspire ...
Barry’s Speech: The Change You Never Heard
Pirate's Cove —
If you watched it, you heard the word. But, not so much what it meant. Charles Babington of the AP (who Keith Olbermann tore into during a normal rant)
Barack Obama, whose campaign theme is “change we can believe in,” promised Thursday to “spell out exactly what that change would mean.”
But instead of dwelling on specifics, he laced the crowning speech of his long campaign with the type of rhetorical flourishes that Republicans mock and the attacks on John McCain that Democrats cheer. The country saw a candidate confident in his existing campaign formula: tie McCain tightly to President Bush, and remind voters why they are ...
Barry’s Speech: The Change You Never Heard
Stop The ACLU —
If you watched it, you heard the word. But, not so much what it meant. Charles Babington of the AP (who Keith Olbermann tore into during a normal rant) Barack Obama, whose campaign theme is “change we can believe in,” promised Thursday to “spell out exactly what that change would mean.” But instead of dwelling on specifics, he laced the crowning speech of his long campaign with the type of rhetorical flourishes that Republicans mock and the attacks on John McCain that Democrats cheer. The country saw a candidate confident in his existing campaign formula: tie McCain tightly to President Bush, and remind voters why they are unhappy with the incumbent. Same ole Mr. Empty Suit. ...
Obamarama
Jules Crittenden —
[image] « Messiah Don’t Bounce Obamarama [image] Big speech notable mainly for its defensiveness. “We are better than John McCain says I am.” At least, I’m pretty sure that’s what he was saying. In other business, apparently we live in a third-world country. Also, we are better than the last seven years of struggle and sacrifice of some Americans, finally engaged in a complex decades-old conflict against a determined enemy, that saw the liberation of 50 million people, al-Qaeda decimated and hamstrung, international unity against Iran, unprecedented Arab opposition to Palestinian terrorism, etc. Obama will “end this war in Iraq responsibly.” Thanks to the Bush ...
On To The Nutter Event-- McCain Throws A Hail Mary Pass
DownWithTyranny! —
... Republicans were horrified by Obama's eloquence and by his effectiveness in delivering an analysis tying their policies-- and John McCain's championing of those policies-- to the dissatisfaction most Americans feel about the direction the country is headed. And offering his clear and compelling vision about how the country can proceed. McCain media surrogates like David Brooks in the NY Times and Charles Babington at A.P., as well as the hyperbolic far right McCain blogging brigade and the wind-up extremist propaganda rags like the Wall Street ...
The AP Puts Their GOP Drunk Goggles To Use
Comments from Left Field —
For anyone that watched Obama’s acceptance speech last night there was little question that this was one of the most policy laden speeches Obama’s ever given.
Tax cuts for the bottom 95% of working Americans.
10 year Apollo-style timetable to eliminate our imports of Middle Eastern oil.
Closing corporate tax loopholes and rewarding only those corporations that employ Americans rather than ship their jobs overseas.
Offering any student willing to enter a community-service program a college education similar to what the GI bill did for WW2 veterans.
And really, those are just the rough ideas I remembered to write down, there ...
Olbermann Slams AP Analysis Of Obama’s Speech
Crooks and Liars —
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The AP is at it again. The largest North American news service is continuing in their anti-Obama trajectory with an “analysis” that, like Ron Fournier’s last week, seems more agenda-driven than actual analysis. This time, it’s Charles Babington, a little known writer from the Washington Post (and I’ve been assured it’s not a nom de plume of Fournier) whose shots at Obama had MSNBC host Keith Olbermann wondering what speech Babington had been watching
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