[Rhodes22-list] POLITICAL: Another Class Act from the GOP

[Lou Rosenberg]

re:  redistribution of wealth is NOT the same as taxing people who's  
GROSS EARNINGS are OVER 250Gs.
Especially when a honest billionaire like Warren Buffet  admits that  
he pays LESS taxes than his secretaries.


the trickle down economics of the Reagan era just didn't work and  
Republicans cannot understand why
workers are PISSED!

Lou

On Oct 23, 2008, at 2:43 PM, Ben Cittadino wrote:

>
> Gail Collins had the following column in the NYTimes today.  It  
> struck a
> chord with me.  My Obama sign was stolen from my yard (not a  
> particularly
> brave act as you can barely see my house from the road).
> I took it as a "sign" that Jesus wants me to keep talking politics,  
> at least
> until after this election.  If I can convince one "lurker" on this  
> forum to
> vote for Obama, or at least give the guy a chance, it will be adequate
> revenge for the theft of my "freedom of speech" by one of Sarah's Real
> Americans.
>
>
> "October 23, 2008
> Op-Ed Columnist
> Confessions of a Phone Solicitor
> By GAIL COLLINS
> Word comes from Madison, Wis., that a telemarketer named Ted  
> Zoromski quit
> his job this week over John McCain’s message.
>
> Zoromski was prepared to interrupt people during their dinner hours to
> encourage them to vote Republican. But when he got the script  
> saying “you
> need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic  
> terrorist
> Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the  
> Pentagon, a
> judge’s home and killed Americans,” he packed it in.
>
> “Even though I was paid to do it, I didn’t feel comfortable,”  
> Zoromski told
> WKOW-TV.
>
> This story, relayed via Mike Allen on Politico.com, struck me  
> because I once
> worked as a telemarketer, and it is an occupation so soul-numbing  
> that it is
> hard to imagine that anything could make it worse. I woke up people  
> on the
> overnight shift who had just managed to fall asleep for the first  
> time in
> six days. Sometimes, when there was clearly nobody at home, I would  
> just let
> the phone ring and ring in order to avoid having to call anybody  
> else. Once
> after about 30 rings, I heard the breathless voice of a man who had  
> climbed
> down off the roof in hopes that this was the critical business call  
> he had
> been waiting for all year, the one that was going to change his life
> forever. Imagine his joy when he discovered that it was, instead, an
> exciting opportunity to purchase an entire packet of portrait  
> photographs of
> his loved ones at a special discount price.
>
> So truly, if you can come up with something that would send a  
> telemarketer
> over the edge, you have really overachieved on the offensiveness  
> front.
>
> For a while, John McCain and Sarah Palin were so over-the-top about  
> Barack
> Obama that people in the crowds started yelling death threats —  
> sometimes
> while simultaneously begging McCain to “take the gloves off.” The  
> idea of
> what they were hoping to see in a post-glove era scared everybody  
> so much
> that the campaign tamped things down.
>
> Opening for a McCain rally in North Carolina last weekend,  
> Representative
> Robin Hayes said he wanted “to keep the crowd as respectful as  
> possible.”
>
> In order to pursue that goal as efficiently as possible, Hayes then
> announced that “liberals hate real Americans that work and  
> accomplish and
> achieve and believe in God.” This was an especially unfortunate  
> turn of
> phrase given the fact that he had begun his remarks by saying he  
> wanted to
> “make sure we don’t say something stupid.”
>
> All this was a direct outgrowth of Sarah Palin’s own comments in North
> Carolina, in which she praised the “pro-America” areas of the  
> country. But
> Hayes had clearly been absent for the day in scurrilous campaign  
> school when
> they explain that you aren’t supposed to specifically name the anti- 
> American
> parts.
>
> Meanwhile, over on MSNBC, Representative Michele Bachmann of  
> Minnesota was
> launching into the Obama/terrorist spin when she suggested that the  
> news
> media should investigate “the views of the people in Congress and  
> find out:
> Are they pro-America or anti-America.” So far, the only person  
> who’s felt
> the impact of her call to reinvent McCarthyism for a post-Communist  
> planet
> has been her opponent, a hitherto totally ignored Democrat named Elwyn
> Tinklenberg, who was stunned to discover in the following days that  
> he had
> received close to $1 million in donations.
>
> When reporters first began covering political speeches in the 19th  
> century,
> politicians were so appalled at the idea that somebody planned to  
> write down
> what they said that they would stop speaking if a reporter showed  
> up along
> the campaign route. Today, in the post-macaca era, you’d figure that
> politicians would be so sensitive to the perpetual presence of  
> recording
> devices that they’d censor their comments even while muttering to  
> themselves
> when taking a shower. Not to mention comments made right after they  
> have
> been made up, offered coffee in the MSNBC green room, had a technician
> install three different recording devices under their clothing and  
> given a
> seat in front of a large camera.
>
> But the tone of this campaign has given some of the Republican  
> faithful,
> even those who are members of Congress, the impression that  
> questioning the
> patriotism of large groups of the population is now O.K.
>
> Right now, all the polls predict that in less than two weeks,  
> Barack Obama
> is going to be elected president. The McCain campaign disputes  
> this. Large
> numbers of Obama supporters are also in doubt, possibly because  
> they keep
> getting e-mails from their relatives in Toledo revealing that Obama  
> has gone
> to Hawaii not to visit his ailing grandmother, but to destroy  
> evidence that
> he is not actually an American citizen.
>
> For John McCain, the best question now is not whether he’s going to  
> lose,
> but what kind of a country he’d wind up with if he won after a  
> campaign even
> a telemarketer can’t love. "
>
> Ben C.
>
>
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