When Obama tried one of his feeble attempts at defending his policies, just after the election, he was shouted down by the opposition who said that he still does not "get it". Well, I agree about the not getting it part, but obviously I do NOT agree about what he does not get. If he's really serious about getting re-elected then there are a few overdue statements he has to make during the state of the union today. I agree this is not the place for political campaigning, but it is the place to talk about his past record and it is his last chance to set it straight.

1) Refute "Spending Binge" Allegations Strongly and Defend Smart Government Spending and Investments
   i) Stimulus spending was necessary and a verycarefully planned investment, which worked beyond epxectations, and not doing it may have led to economic devastation of horrifying proportions.
  ii) Without goverment investments America would not be the country it is. You think if Eisenhower had decided that "spend as you go"is the only option, we would still not be able to drive across the country by car
  iii) Overriding Republican focus on deficits is plain wrong in a weak economy. The focus should be on reviving the economy and creating more jobs

 2) Convince Listeners That a Focus On "Jobs and Economy" Was Always His Priority And Will Continue To Be
    i) Continuing from the point above, if he had heeded republican advise and not gone for stimulus spending, not only would the financial markets have been destroyed by now, we would have 3.3 million more people unemployed. The stimulus not only resulted in more jobs, but it also included many smart investments which have paid off stupendous returns, such as General Motors and Citibank
    ii) The healthcare plan was not a "distraction" like it was made out to be. It is very much linked to the economy and jobs

3) Convince Listeners That "Deficit Management" Is Always On His Mind, And How Republican/Tea Party Policies Actually Increase The Deficits

4) Continue From Above and Provide Compelling Points of Healthcare package again, Specifically How it Reduces the Deficits

5) Advise Listeners That He is Willing To Work With Opposition But It Is Also Their Duty To Offer Specific Counter Proposals Instead of Just Saying "No"

I will try to complete this article soon, but a lot of fillers can be extracted from one of my previous articles here.

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Kudos to Krugman for being brave enough to state the truth. However, what Krugman’s comes close to saying (click link below for his article) but avoids mentioning explicitly in this article is that the Republicans/Tea Partiers are so devious that they are propagating arguments that they themselves know are plain distortions of the truth and blatant lies. They are just doing it for political gain (which Krugman refers to politely as “they just want some numbers and charts to wave at the people and the press”), and they don’t give a damn that they are destroying their country in the process (Read how over here). To top it all, these traitors who are sucking the life out of the economy and the country, talk about American exceptionalism. Talk about exceptional betrayal!

 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/17/opinion/17krugman.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=homepage

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Obama made a great speech and he fulfilled his duty as a president by making the ordinary man reflect on his actions and follow a path of accomodation instead of intolerance. However, this utopia will be shortlived if the other side still is still blinded by the incessant brainwashing that has been happening over these years, and continue to think that the people in power are destroying the country (whereas the people in power and their supporters return the favor and mindset by railing against them without bothering to correct their despicable distortions).

Whether political propoganda was partly responsible for making Jared Loughner hate the government and pushed him to act is a moot point now, the point is that even perfectly sane people have been frothing at the mouth, especially at those townhalls and tea party gatherings. If those people haven't gone past breaking windows and sending threatening letters or letter bombs, then there is high likelihood of somebody doing something more drastic "in order to save the country" (or whatever other delusion they may have). If so many educated and world-wise people can fall under the spell of tea party and get deluded into thinking the stimulus was just pork barrel spending (it saved the country from total devastation), the health care is law about socialism or 'death panels', and that deficits are the biggest problem our country faces and it is what is causing the economy and jobs to stagnate, then the insane nuts are not our only problem.

The problem here is not just the tea party anger stokers, who resort to the lowest of lies to vilify their opponent, it is also the people in power who do not make any attempts to correct the horribly wrong impression and understanding that the 'brainwashed' have of their policies and make them understand the truth and expose the liars. It is the duty of the government to educate the citizens of their policies and explain their actions, but apparently that is above the dignity of people in power. Read my posts below for more details on this garguantan oversight of part of the Obama administration (and other democrats) that is partly responsible for the atmosphere of political hatred in this country.

Watch out for more on this topic, and how Obama can learn from the bravery of Giffords in this regard (and from Christie too).

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Let’s stop focusing on the intricacies of the tax cut package for a while. Obama’s mistake all along has not been any of his policies, in fact he has probably done the best that you could hope for by any president. Right from his first six months when he pulled out all stops to revive a dangerously tottering economy (and was successful) by passing an superbly crafted stimulus package, despite the howls from the tea party poopers. His admin came up with innovative ideas like cash for clunkers and housing tax credit to try various methods to provide a boost for the economy and all their efforts did work spectacularly as the economy starting going into growth mode within a year of his taking office and the stock market doubled since the passing of the stimulus package. Most Americans cannot even begin to fathom what the situation would be if Obama hadn’t taken the right steps to revive confidence in the financial markets and institutions.

But, he failed to defend it aggressively when the opposition tried to cover up the progress that he had made and tried to knock him down along with the economy by scaremongering on deficits and national debt. He failed to defend the healthcare package enough, which was a mixed bag but definitely a step in the right direction as something had to be done about the rising premiums. He didn’t fight the misleading distortions fabricated by the tea party that the stimulus package was a bailout and he didn’t castigate them for talking down the economy by haring on their ‘out of the blue’ and ill-timed concern for deficits (when the economy is in a depression? Common!).

Maybe his thinking was that it would be best as president to stay out of mudfights and be ‘presidential’. Alternatively, maybe he thought that it would be best to if the congress is divided, as it would put some of the blame on the republicans and force them to walk their talk and cast unpopular votes. He did campaign hard in the last month before the election but it was obviously too late and too little, and there was still not enough of a defence of his policies. That was a big letdown for the votes who got him in and for the voters who wanted to vote for his party again in 2010, as it is his duty, and a duty towards those supporting his policies and defending him, to educate the nation about his policies and actions and also point out the vicious untruths being spread out there to brainwash the unaware voters (to their credit they did a good job, because suddenly everybody was concerned about the ‘deficit’). Hell, it IS his duty to tell the American people who is lying and who is fighting for them, for the liars did not blink while trying their best to destroy the very economy that he was fighting so hard to rebuild. It IS his duty to tell after the elections that he was more concerned about the long-term deficits that his two-faced opposition and that is why he was not supporting extending the tax cuts for the rich and that was why he came up with a brand new healthcare plan. He has been working on the same issues that the voters found him lacking on, but obviously he was not able to communicate to them. That should have been message… of course, he did try a weak defense while admitting the ‘shellacking;, but immediately backed down when there were headlines saying ‘Doesn’t Obama Get it Even Now?’.

His policies cost the party in the elections, but he still had one more chance, which he didn’t take and that was the biggest mistake of his career. Instead of taking the opportunity after the election to strongly defend his policies and denounce the misinformation that many voters had about his policies due to the lies of the opposition. He should have said the things mentioned above and should have told the votes in no uncertain terms that the short-term economic revival and long-term deficits are key focuses for him and he will not accept any proposals from the Republicans which will derail the progress he has made on both.

He should have hit back hard when they were throwing baseless allegations at him that he was not focusing on job growth and instead was focusing on healthcare and 'big government'. He should have left no doubt in people's minds that his stimulus package had job creation (which is associated with economic growth) at the core, and included many proposals for governement investments that would not only add many jobs but would would also improve America's failing infrastrucuture (killing two birds with one stone). He should have emphasized his growth initiatives like 'cash for clunkers' and home buyer's tax cut which helped the economy and created more jobs, and that government investments are necessary in such disastrous economic times. When there is no defence, then the prosecution gets a walkover even if their allegations are bucketfuls of horse excretions. Now all that mud will stick to him forever and any gains that have been made by his proposals and policies over the past two years and the new tax cuts will get attributed to the republicans, for they will take credit for passing that law and helping the economy turn the corner. He would be though of as a clueless guy who focused on the wrong things and pushed his socialist agenda, till the republicans won the house and knockedsome sense into him, whereas the republicans/tea party were just talking down the economy all this while and trying to reverse the economic progress as they did not want Obama to suceed (and the country be damned).

Instead, he got the wrong advise that he should take this opportunity to show the voters that ‘he gets it’ and show his willingness to move towards the center and win back the moderates. So he meekly parroted the tea party quacks, and abandoned any defence of his policies, and immediately started pushing out the proposals of his deficit panel within a few weeks of the election. Heck, the panel was set a long time ago and instead of using that as an opportunity to tell the public that the panel was set up long before these butter brains knew what that meant, as he was always concerned about long-term deficits and that they are ready with their findings now. However, his lack of any spine in standing up for his work made him look like a person who had no clue that the deficits were an important factor to be considered for long-term economic stability and that the election of the republicans and the hammering of the message by the tea party finally made him see the light. His quick willingness to negotiate with the republicans and pass the tax cut package again sheds him in the same light and the credit for retaining the tax cut and all the good middle class benefits will be snatched by the republicans. They will again claim this step as something Obama had to take because they took the house and they forced him to take the right steps for the economy.

Obama is probably happy that he has the votes of the republicans on record that he can use against them, but he doesn’t realize that because he did not stand up and educate the American public about the good that he has done, which is now bringing fruit, the republicans will claim the credit for the recovery gaining steam over the next two years (thanks to Obama's policies) as they will point out that a lot of it happened after they took over the house and pushed Obama to take the right steps.

Not setting the record straight before the election, or even after it, is the biggest mistake that Obama has made so far. He will find out that the hard way that it is very difficult to change the hard-set perception that many people now have of him, and lost credibility (even that lost due to lies) cannot be regained easily and when a lot of mud gets thrown at you then some it does stick unless you make an effort to clean it up.

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There is no way that somebody as smart as Obama could not envision the surefire path to decimate the tea-party and dunk the tea bags in hot water. The blatant lies that the tea party was propogating, right from day one, can be exposed very easily by anybody who’s smarter than a fifth grader. I’ve seem his 2008 campaign and they did not let mud stick on them for too long and let it rip at the opposition if need be. I understand things have changed and he is in power, so he has to be more accomodating and also needs to keep relationships intact to get support for his policies. It must not have been too difficult to figure though, what he needs to do to win. It was way to obvious for too many, and for his seasoned campaign managers, that the despicable distortions of the right had to be debunked before too many people started believing that to be the truth. I’ve been laying out what he needed to do to win this election, in my previous articles, and I can’t believe there aren’t others who found it so obvious.

1) Defend the stimulus – how the economy was saved from disaster

•        How it is necessary to have an economic revival to reduce deficits, and a short-term stimulus is very important for reviving the economy
•        How the bill is not a bailout and how it involves investment in America’s infrastructure which also helped save 3 mil jobs
•        Most major economists agree that stimulus was required, and in fact many of them say that it was too less

2) Point out opposition hollowness and duplicity on deficits and the economy

•        They want to cut taxes for rich yet keep shouting about the deficits, neither are they willing to admit cutting spending on any specific item
•        How an economic revival is a prerequisite for deficits and how the repubs don’t have any plan for reviving the economy and getting the jobs back

3) Defend Healthcare and again point out hollowness of the tea party/GOP again.

•         They don’t have any plan to fix the increasing premiums, at least I have a plan even though I admit it’s not perfect
•        Republicans are just saying what the big healthcare companies want to hear, as they have received huge donations from big corporations. The truth is they have been bought out by the big pharma and big insurance companies and that is the only interest thye have in mind even though they put on this facade of foaming at the mouth due to the 'government takeover' of healthcare. Hello, this is plan based on the policies one of your most conservative brethren, Mitt Romney, so pipe down you fake foamers.

4) Point out hypocrisy on financial regulation – wall street nearly bought down the market and the country, and the republicans don’t want to ensure that it doesn’t happen again. Spreading blatant lies again about the bill promising bailout for companies, instead the bill provides measures to end taxpayer bailouts.

5) Point out all the steps and policies for economic revival taken up and how the steps are slowly taking effect, markets are up by 50%. He has to say "I understand jobs are not coming back completely, but we have been through a major recessions and it will take some more time to come completely out of the woods. Republicans have no plan, they are the party of no and they just want to stop any progress as they do not want the current administration to succeed at any cost, even if that means destroying their own country’s economy".

The fact that he did not say these things or even run any kind of campaign, shows that either he is too dumb or he is playing a very deliberate and seemingly (to him) smart game. The advantages of a divided congress is that he can share blame with the republicans and force them to cast votes that he can use against them later on. He’ll play nice with them for another year to get some of his agenda moving, and as soon as 2012 arrives he’ll take off the kid gloves. 

This may work, but by not defending himself against any of the accusations fired by the republicans and not cleaning his sullied reputation he is making the classic mistake that most politicians continue to make and yet nobody ever learns from them (such as Kerry and senior Bush to name a couple). You CANNOT let the opposition destroy your credibility and your image. Bush won in 2004 because they were successful is casting Kerry as a ‘french poodle’, who was wimpy and waffly. By not standing up strongly for his policies and actions and not defending them vigorously against the baseless attacks of the right, he has let the mud stick on him and has let the lies become the truth for too many people. If there are accusations flying fast and thick from one side and if there is no response from the other side, then there is a presumption of guilt. Once a perception about a perception becomes very strong, it cannot be shaken off no matter how much you try later. You got to fight the wrong accusations before they become the accepted truth. People respect a person who stands up for himself and believes in his actions. By 2012, even if the people realize the disgusting truth about the tea party, they would be too disappointed in Obama’s lack of interest in fighting for the truth in 2010 and will look for someone who can fight harder for himself/herself.

He had a sliver of opportunity after the election to point out the discrepancies and blatant lies on which the republicans and tea party had won the election, but he again got cowed down by those very same stupid voices saying ’He still doesn’t get why he lost the election. He’s is denial …’. He should have had the guts to say ‘I lost the election because a lot of lies were passed off as the truth, and I did not do a good job of correcting these distortions’. He has very little time to change course and start showing spine or else we’re looking at a one-term lame duck president.

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This article refers to Friedman's article in NY Times - Reading this article by Friedman on how Anderson Cooper had a coup by busting the claims of the tea party leaders and the GOP that President Obama was spending $200 mil per day for his India trip, one thing that strikes me is how hesitant all these journalists/media people are to reveal the truth. Friedman talks about how the elected reps and right-wing rabble rousers are quoting wrong facts because they did not bother to check the information from apparently 'unknown' and now proved incorrect sources. That is the biggest grandstand since the time the republicans said that they went into Iraq because they assumed the intelligence on WMD to be true. Oh common, are you really smarter than a fifth grader? Even neaderthals like the tea party leaders will know that there is a big difference between 2 and $200 million. If nothing their campaign funding battles would make them aware of what a big amount $200 million is. The talk about using half the navy or whatever is also too ridiculous to explain it by an innocent 'oh, I did not bother to check'.

I think it's time to take the sugar coating out of the coverage on the tea party and show them for vile venomous vipers that they are. There are two kinds of people in this country now, people who know that the lies about Obama's trip expenses were deliberately propogated just to further vilify the president's image, and is just a continuation of the campaign of deception that started after Obama's election, and the other type of people are the people who actually believe it. It is obvious that Cooper and Friedman both know that the lies were deliberately spread by the people mentioned but they are afraid to spell it out in case they get sued or something of that sort. But if they don't have the 'cojones' for that then please don't talk about exemplary journalism. Cooper did a great job by revealing the truth, but if they cannot go all the way and state that it has to be a deliberate distortion then we will do it for them. These lies and deceptions won't cut it anymore for the tea party, for the tsunami of truth will sweep you far away by 2012. Watch the ground under your feet, for it's going to be yanked away from under you very soon.

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In a rally, President Obama said that this election is a "choice between the policies that are getting us into this mess versus policies that are getting us out of this mess". The voters, on the other hand, are asking questions such as "how will we pay almost a trillion dollars for healthcare? Why did we bail out wall street with a stimulus package? Why aren't we doing anything about jobs?" This basic disconnect is the reason why the democrats are losing now and have lost in the past too. They never answer the questions head-on and dive into this heady complex sermons that go nowhere. Look at this article, this article and this article to see what I mean. Obama made statements which sound like typical politicial sound bites and statements which address nothing and is still trying to rally people using 2008 slogans like 'Yes, we can!' and "GW Bush is responsible for the mess we're in."

It's obvious from the article that David Axelrod is the genius behind the 'we're in the mess because of the failed policies of the previoud admin' brainwave. Wow, we couldn't ask for anything better, after two years of running the country, to say that 'it's not my fault, he messed it up'. What is still inexplicable is "why is is so hard to understand that you have to defend, clarify and explain your policies to the people, especially when they are expressing serious concern about most of them". Why does the democratic campaign run away from basic principles such as standing up for your work and strongly refuting blatantly false allegations cooked up by the opponents? Well, it's too late to think about that, but the first we ought to do Wednesday morning is to give David Axelrod the boot and hire somebody with basic smarts such as Tom Perriello.

Why Tom Perriello? This is how easy he makes it look .. when asked about the stimulus package, he said "Let's all act like grown people here. We all know that the stimulus package was necessary to preven the economy from going into depression." and for the healthcare he said "Look, we had to do something about healthcare, as the premiums were going through the roof. This is not a perfect package, but it is a step in the right direction and if we think about new ideas instead of just criticising it blindly we can come up with make it better.".

That's it takes to win an election ... of course, you may ask why is Tom Perriello not leading in that case? The problem is that Tom Perriello's head-on campaign was too little too late, and due to the national democrats 'roll over and stick head in sand' approach while the tea party was ravaging Obama's policies and distorting them and brainwashing the general public with calculated misinformation, some of the mud stuck and has been difficult to wipe clean by just one lone man. But the fact that he is still within striking distance in a race which he won by just 737 votes in a bumper year for democrats shows that honesty and conviction in your actions is always looked up by the American electorate.

I've covered the elements of a simple campaign strategy that can make it a 'slam dunk' for the democrats in this article, but apparently the democrats are hellbent on making it very difficult for them. We cannot tolerate this absolute incompetency in terms of campaigning skills and we have to make sure that the president pays attention to a broader base of advise in terms of campaign strategy and he listens to what an 'average Joe' like us thinks of his campaign and incorporates our inputs.

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This post outlines a broad strategy that the Obama administration and democrats should use to counter the non-stop campaign of misinformation and mud-slinging from the opposition and win back people’s mind and hearts. The statements outlined in the strategy need not be delivered by the president themselves (though some can) but is meant to form the crux of the content of a communications team that monitors the current discussions in the press and streets an delivers an immediate and forceful response. It is a 24-hour news cycle out there and we cannot let all headlines and airwaves be dominated by the opposition who keep twisting and distorting all policies and actions and brain washing the general public. It is important to have a 24x7 communications room that calls out the half-truths and deception that is constantly being generated by the other side, because if people throw enough mud then some of it will stick and will continue to make the picture more murky. A lot of people out there are plain misinformed and manipulated and it is very important that the veil of deception thrown by the opposition be lifted and the truth be uncovered.

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This is a real response to a comment on my blog from a tea party loyalist (read original comment below)

Dear 'Palindrone',

It is kind of amusing to know that you are being pitying me for being clueless and at the same time displaying ‘cluelessness’ of gargantuan proportions. You parrot a lot of ‘Palindrones’ in your comment, like “The Tea Party is about returning power to the people’, ‘We’ve become a land of entitlement’ and ‘tax and spend policy of the government’ etc. etc. without even attempting to answer the simple question ‘What would the party do going forward?”, “How will that revive the economy and bring deficits down”? and most importantly if you tea partiers got riled up by the stimulus (but trillion dollar deficits by Bush are fine with you apparently as you guys didn’t froth at the mouth when that happened) then kindly explain how would you have got the economy out of the devastating tailspin it was in and pulled it out from the vicious cycle caused by the state of panic and loss of confidence, which were threatening to freeze the economy and cause further debilitating losses to the common man. You brainwashed buttheads don’t acknowledge the fact that since the stimulus was passed the economy has come out of a seeming bottomless recession and the stock market has grown by more than 50% in one year after the stimulus. You would shudder to know what would have happened without sane heads in the government who didn’t fall for the politico crap of ‘deficits’, from people already had nagging apprehensions as soon as Obama was elected and jumped at the first criticism that was offered by opportunists such as Palin (common, she had better ideas to revive the economy than the crack team established by the govt?). You soaked in everything these unscrupulous scavengers were saying because you wanted to believe everything they said in the back of your mind and kind of made it into a self-fulfilling prophecy. The stimulus package was extremely well thought out, to revive the crucial financial economy (and continue the damage prevention that Bush started with TARP, a $800 billion package) and also provide more jobs by rebuilding the national infrastructure (sorely needed too). You clueless morons painted that package as a bailout (thanks to the nobel laureate economist Palin) when it was just partly a continuation of Bush’s TARP for financial firms (that part of the stimulus plan that is) and was extremely necessary to keep the nascent recovery alive. Take an economics 101 class if you can’t get it even now. Also, you cannot dispute the fact that the economic growth has been higher since the package and the stock market (which was in the danger of going below 6000 at that point) has recovered strongly. Obviously, it is easy to point out that unemployment hasn’t gone down much and the economy is not roaring but think about how disaster was averted due to the stimulus and how bad things would be without it.

Also, regarding the ‘sick of spending’, ’No more tax and spend’ and the ‘down with deficit’ slogans that your party is shouting from the rooftops, where was this anger when Bush added more than trillion to the deficit with the wars and other bills. Let me give you a quote from your ‘favorite paper’ (you would do good to read this paper and knock some sense into yourself) about the medicare prescription program that was passed the Bush team. “Calculations by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office and other independent fiscal experts show that the $1.1 trillion cost over the next 10 years of the Medicare prescription drug program, which the Republican-controlled Congress adopted in 2003, by itself would add more to the deficit than the combined costs of the bailout, the stimulus and the health care law.” Read about it here. Where was your anger when the Clinton surplus was wiped away and replaced with a trillion plus deficit? That itself shows that the very foundation of your party is based on hypocrisy and opportunism. When there was no other issue to beat down the Obama administration the tea party leaders started working up the crowds about how their country is getting bankrupted by Obama, and boy did you suckers fall for it or what. Did ya wonder brains know that Obama hasn’t raised any taxes so far and has actually provided a payroll tax cut to 95% of the working people? Get your head out of the sand and try to look at the other side of the story for a change instead of falling for every load of horse hooey that the tea party/gop leaders hand down to you.

Regarding the healthcare it would also be good for you morons to realize that we are actually reducing the deficit with this plan and the national cost of not adopting some of reform would be higher, as the insurance costs were spiraling every year. It is a fair debate as to which provisions could have been modified and what should be added/deleted but I don’t remember this explosion of disgust when Mitt Romney passed this plan for Massachusetts. You two-faced hypocrites are accusing Obama of being a socialist for passing a plan that was created by a Republican and no Tea Party leader will admit to that fact when asked. The fact is that something had to be done about healthcare, as the insurance costs were going through the roof, and this was a commendable effort where the deficit from healthcare was being reduced and the number of uninsured decreasing at the same time. There is no perfect plan for this and if you all have a better suggestion then you would have given it by now instead of just bashing a genuine effort.

The list of your deception and misleading attacks can go on and on but the bottom line is this, the Obama administration has been trying from the very first day to get the country out of the economic funk, and they have tried many innovative and commendable programs like ‘cash for clunkers’, and ‘tax break for first-time home buyers’ etc. that actually helped to a certain extent. The tea party (parties rather) on the other hand have nothing to offer in terms of concrete policies or alternatives and all they do is froth at the mouth and denounce every genuine attempt by the Obama admin.  Oh btw, the Obama admin also gets this simple fact that the economy has to grow first before the deficits can come down anyway, and just clamping down monetarily is not going to do that and will only raise the deficits further. So there!

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Talk about being misguided .. it's amazing how the human mind can so easily be swayed and controlled by somebody's words and starts treating everything they say as the gospel. The Tea Party is about returning the power to the people apparently and has not put forward even one practical proposal for the current economic situation (especially when it was at its worst point since 2008-2009). All they've been doing is demonizing and deceiving the public by shamelessly distorting the proposals of people who have been sincerely trying to do fix the situation and do good for the country. I will not elaborate on these points here,  but watch out for my next posts where I refute these parroted 'Palindrones' and shine some light on the plain truth that is as clear as dsylight if you open the blinds of your brain.

"You poor misguided person. I realy try to see the liberal's point of view, but you my friend are way out in left field. 

The Tea Party is about returning power to the working people. Not the liberal media who misleads the nation with foolish information, not the rich (republican & democratic), not those who choose not to work and depend in the government to provide them with every solution to their bad decisions, not the illegals who expect to be given more rights than Americans and certainly not to the lazy, crooked politicians whose only concern is how to stay in office.

The country is in a mess, jobs are shipped out of country (other than farm products & weapons, we have nothing anyone wants), social security is going broke, we've become the land of entitlement where it doesn't seem feasible to work, and there are NO leaders in the government capable of steering America out of this pending doom that awaits.

If you don't agree with any of that, you must be one of those who gets by on government handouts in one form or another and your pretty happy with President Obama, Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid. Keep one thing in mind, when this "gravy train" you're riding goes over the cliff its heading for, whose going to provide your house, car, food, medical care & cell phone? Its one thing to be a parasite, but when you suck the life out of your host, you die also!

If you actually have a job that's not dependant on the government, you are welcome to give any and all your money to the entitlment class & elitists fed by the tax & spend policy. The Tea Party is embraced by working Americans who are sick & tired of working hard and being over-taxed to fund the gravy train.

If you like the tax & spend policy, then you pay for them (if you actually have a non-government funded job)!"

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This is by far the most sincere blog comment I got and I wanted to share it with you all. I appreciate the writer's decency and conciliatory approach. I do agree on being too vitriolic (been probably drinking some 'tea' myself) but there are a few points I want to respond on and I will get back to this person soon and will share my response here. I'd love to hear your comments on what is an appropriate response. The biggest 'stand out' here is that this person is just pointing to the different beliefs of conservatives and liberals but my anger is not about the beliefs, it is about the slimy and sneaky politics being played by the tea party/conservative leaders who are brainwashing the conservatives by disgusting lies and insinuations (and destroying our economy and spreading hatred in the process). I am by no means completely liberal but I do care about principles and justice and will not tolerate those being sledgehammered by unscrupulous slimeballs. 

"You would be more effective if you would change the tone of your blog. Two things stand out: one, the crude and sarcastic language which screams "college leftist," and two, the violent imagry of your words. 

If you state your opinions without all the over-the-top ad hominem attacks, you might be able to change some minds. But as long as you are so hostile to working class folks worried about the country (yes I do mean the tea party) anyone looking for "the other side" reads a few words of your blog and sighs, "More ad hominem attacks... more Allinsky-ite 'isolate and ridicule'" and then surfs on to the next biog.

If you truly love your country, as I do, realize that we are not your enemies, we are not stupid, and we are not out to "get" your president. We have conservative, traditional beliefs, and you do not. That is why we do not have one-party rule in the U.S. Different ideas keep politcal discourse vigorous and guard against totalitarian attitudes.

That is no reason for the "hit...harder" style of language and vitriol. I could be your neighbor; you would probably like me if we met at a social event. But people like me, who surf politcal sites often, will not stay around long enough to soak up any of your ideas because of your "rabid dog" syle of writing.

I hope you reconsider the venom and think seriously about what I have said. You are putting up walls instead of building bridges, and in these dangerous times we cannot afford to treat each other as enemies."

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It validates your faith is mankind when you see that there are some people who have their head in the right place and have a thinking brain inside their head. I don’t have to add a lot of supplementary info about the rotten scheme of the tea party to string along gullible suckers who’ll fall for their dirty lies and have no qualms about destroying our country in the process. Just read this article and I hope if there is a tea party or gop supporter reading this then he/she had better hammer every word into their misguided brain, for this is GOD’s OWN TRUTH!

I’m glad that there are people who are standing up against the force and fury of the so called ‘sons of the soil’ (sobs actually) who have relentlessly ground any opposition into the dust. Well, this anti tea party movement is going to become a lot more stronger as there are more and more people on whom realization is dawning and who are hitting back. Watch out tea ‘party animals’ for there is a category 5 'party pooper' storm brewing in the horizon …

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/building-a-nation-of-know-nothings

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Yo, Cramy ... didn't expect this from you of all persons ... somebody who does (or should be) following the administration's financial policies know that Obama has been saying right from the beginning that there is no silver bullet to fix the economy and the stimulus will provide some help but it will be a long and painful road to recovery. How can you get into the gutter of distorting and destroying the government's attempts like the toxic Tea Party traitors. The Tea Party and many of the 'victims' of their brainwashing (some who have commented below who should probably be allowed to park in handicapped spaces) are the people who have been hacking down all serious attempts by the government to boost the economy by talking down the economy and scaring the (easily malleable) people by keeping on beating the drum of 'rising deficits' and socialist takeover of the country. Would have been amusing to watch an army of morons any other time, but when they intentionally destroy the economy and country (knowing very well that whatever the president is trying is what they would have done anyway) they have to be branded traitors ... I sure hope you show better sense than them. Any of the references about Biden and Obama you're making are about their comments on the role that the Stimulus has played in coming out of the crisis in 08-09 (and you better admit that too). Never did they say that they do not need to do anything else and that the economy will take off on its own. They're trying every day, and like the housing tax rebate they have been coming up with innovative schemes to try to propel the economy .. unfortunately doesn't help if the republicans massacre every measure by using their devious distortions to characterize every measure as a socialist apocalypse. I agree that targeting pay on wall street was a mistake ... though most of the geniuses who were protesting against the stimulus (gop/tea partiers mainly) were the ones complaining about executive pay and when the President decided to give in to them they characterized that as Socialism. These tea sippers had better watch out though ... if they think their movement is passionate and demanding change, they should turn their heads around and see the hurricane of hordes of justice seekers who'll be ripping the masks off each and every one of the traitors.

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I never thought there'll be day when I'll praise the pompous and arrogant governor of New Jersey, but I was blown away by the brutal honesty and guts of Christie when he voiced his views on the WTC Mosque. Well, he still hedged a little, by talking about upholding the sensitivities of the Sep 11th families but at the same time he was braver than most politicians by stating his mind on the topic and condemning politicians from both parties for making this issue a political 'football. He clearly stated what many people in Democratic and Republican parties are afraid to say .. that it is outrageous to paint all of Islam with the brush of terrorism. He clearly stated that this issue is being politicized out of proportion and he warns that we should follow policies to being people together and not drive them away from each other.

What he did not state was that his colleagues are not just 'politicizing' the issue, they are injecting venom into the air and the minds of the malleable (read stupid) american voter by spreading canards like 'terrorist connections' of the chief priest of the mosque. The New York Post, which is probably the most obnoxious and disgusting right wing rag out there, has headlines like 'Hamas Big Backs Mosque'. Talk about manipulation by insinuation. Of the effing course the Hamas guys would back the mosque. They would back a mosque being built in the moon if that is ever planned. That is no way means the people building the mosque here are in any way connected to Hamas. The NY Post knows that, like itself, the average American voter is such a dimwit that they would not be able to use 'complicated' reasoning like 'If Hamas backs the mosque then it does not mean the mosque leaders are backing hamas' (whew ... I wish they had taught rocket science in the 8th grade).

Well, try as you may, earthworms, you are not going to shake the movement for progress and justice in politics, and every hot you make is going to boomerang and hit you back harder! As promised in this site, I will give you recourse for action ... so email letters@nypost.com or call 1-800-940-7678 to the past pansies a piece of your mind (though they may not know what a mind is)!

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Kudos to the Democrats and the Obama team. For once, they did what they should be doing every day. Hit back hard at the republicans and tea partiers, and give them a dose of the same medicine that they made the democrats/Obama drink every day since he took office. I remember seeing an article in the Washington Post about how the Obama team hit back at Barton because they want to get political mileage out of it and help them in November. OMG ... eff the ucking course they were extracting every bit of political mileage out of it. Why the heck would they not? There is a bi...iig difference between the mileage the extracted and the slimy tactics of the gop/teeps (short for tea partiers) though ... Barton made a real comment about 'shakedown' and that comment did reflect his views (and probably many big business fans in the gop), though he was foreced to apologize later. In fact Rush 'out on a limb' baugh is trying to slime the $20 billion fund as a sinister ploy by the Obama admin to distribute money to ACORN .... boy, I tell ya, with a base like the one the GOP/Tea Party has, you can make them buy anything ... just suggest it long enough and they get hypnotized into believing it (because they want to ..). Almost makes me wonder if we should have a minimum IQ as a criteria for citizenship of this country. But I wouldn't fault the brainwashed as much as the washer-boys .. if Limbaugh is intentionally misleading his listeners into believing something that even he knows is untrue, and endangering the livelihood and financial status of millions of households in the gulf region in the process, then he is a slimy rodent and should be made to crawl back into his hole. 

What the GOP/Teeps do, which is reprehensible, is that they intentionally twist and manipulate the other side's words to extract a convenient meaning which has as much to do with the truth as Iraq had to do with 9/11. So, the health reform becomes equivalent to 'death panels' and 'regulation' becomes equivalent to government takeover of corporations. They keep brainwashing the clueless hide heads with devious intentions and try to demonize the opposition even when they are doing their best for the country, because their only interest is in winning the next election (the country be damned!). 

Well, if blogs like mine crop up everywhere then 'hitting back harder' will become the norm of the Democrats too and it wont take too long for them to turn the tables on the traitorous tea party. Watch put for more tips on how to 'hit back harder'.

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Continuing from my earlier article, I've added the link for Krugman's follow-up article below. As he mentions, people who are opposing the stimulus and revival plans for the economy are putting our future at stake. Whether you are opposing because you're bone-headed (read 90% of tea party/gop followers), or should I say jelly-brained cause it can be molded in two seconds by any tea party klutz railing against Obama, or because you are a scheming traitor (read 90% of the GOP/Tea Party leadership), there are no two ways about it - YOU ARE DESTROYING THE VERY ECONOMIC FABRIC OF OUR COUNTRY - Al Qaeda couldn't have done any better than you tea party folks are doing. Try to listen to what the other side is saying for a change (try to take off the prejudice tinted lenses for a change and for god's sake try to broaden that weany little mind of yours and READ the article below).  

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/21/opinion/21krugman.html?ref=paulkrugman

If you cannot make sense of this article then you have two freaking options

1) Either let the people who have been spent months and months studying the causes of the crisis and breaking their backs to fix the situation do their work, and support the superlative and selfless Obama effort to revive our economy and our country

2) or provide an intelligent alternative to fix the economy (and fruckin back it up with numbers). Do not just sit there like a sick dog spewing froth from your mouth, and parroting your demented and crooked leaders.

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I know it’s not easy to knock sense into the gop faithful and the tea sipping party ‘animals’, though they seem to fall for convenient balderdash faster than oil can spill out of the deepwater horizon. But we believe in a little bit of ‘empathy’ and would like to give them a chance at redemption. Here’s hoping the dense brains of the gop/tea party faithfuls can comprehend plain English, and looking forward to the amazement of an intelligent response to this very informative article from Paul Krugman of the NY Times which puts the whole deficit debate in very simple language (simple enough for our ape-brain friends to understand). I hope this makes them realize how the tea party traitors are betraying our country and destroying it economically.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/opinion/18krugman.html?ref=paulkrugman

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More evidence of the deliberate deception was on display during the healthcare bill. It was clear as day that the insurance premiums were going through the roof and becoming unaffordable for a lot of people. There was no doubt that some kind of reform was necessary and that something had to be done to put a brake on the premium increases and also include as many non-covered people as possible. Instead of agreeing that reform is required, and trying to help the Obama administration come up with the right plan, the tea party/repubs plainly refused to speak to him. They may as well have said ‘screw you and screw our country’, for that is exactly what they were doing. When they were required to do their bit as representatives of the people, they ignored their duty and played gutter politics again, and started poisoning people’s mind again. They fed them trash about death panels and government choosing doctors, and the ape-brain tea party folks just lapped everything up (what will they not fall for). It was an extremely well thought out plan, and actually managed to increase coverage and reduce the country's deficit! Truth be told though, it’s not just the persuasive powers of the tea-party leaders that makes them fall for all kind of hooey (death panels, for god’s sake!). They had serious doubts and prejudice against the current president right from the beginning and the 24-hour mud-slinging operations from the likes of Haughty Hannity led to the deepening of their doubts and some of the mud stuck. However, part of it was because they really wanted to believe all the muck they heard and so they convinced themselves that it’s the truth. Otherwise, anybody with half a pea brain in their head would know that Palin knows as much about Healthcare as we know about Moose hunting ,and the criticism she was trying to cook up (don’t kill grandma!) were a laugh riot, and dirty politics motivated by her sheer ambition to get to the presidential nomination. That is the dirty psychological warfare that the right-wing keeps playing … keep telling people over and over again that (a blatant lie) is the truth and after some time some people will start believing it’s the truth. So, keep saying that the president is socialist and is making government take over our life, and the tea party foot soldiers will fall over themselves to believe it. Heck, Obama is as much a socialist as Mitt Romney, if you compare their health plans. Oops, try bringing that comparison up with the Palins and Becks of the world, and you'll see them roll over and play dead. Their job is to shred every action that Obama takes into pieces, so that they can feed the shreds to their loyal followers who wag their tails at them. Doesn't matter if the action that Obama is trying to take is vital for our country's economy and security, and to the survival of many Americans. Politics comes before country ... maybe they should make that the slogan of the tea party. I do repeat, however, that the blame is not with the majority of the tea party followers or republicans (aka the 'brainwashed'), it mainly lies with the ones who are intentionally misleading these guys (i.e. the 'brainwashers', who'll do exactly the same things as Obama when they're in office, as those actions are necessary and make sense) and playing with our country's future.

What everybody should not forget though is that in the name of political opportunism they were destroying our country, and hence they (the brainwashers) deserve to be branded the dirtiest of ‘traitors’.

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Cause anybody with half a brain would know that you cannot risk a 'spiral of death' by not shoring up the Greek government and the financial system in the country. Obviously, the 'bailout' should come with many strings attached, and a stringent plan for austerity and repayment. True to form though, there are morons in every corner of the world and Germany is no exception. The ignoramuses who are protesting Germany's support to bail out Greece do not realize that if that is not done then they will have the fallout come and bite a big chunk out of their backsides. Well, to their credit at least they are protesting about their government saving somebody elses's ass (in their opinion), but or very own tea party poops protested our own government saving our own asses and even founded their joke of a movement on that event. One day for sure, the morons who became part of the movement for that reason and bought all the hooey about 'government taking over our lives' will hang their head in shame (like a lot of the Iraq war defenders did when they saw 'the light'). I wish we had the luxury to wait till then, but I'm afraid we are not as moronic as our tea party friends .... keep tuned in on how the tea party will get the rug pulled out from under their feet and will get DECIMATED.

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The second part of my series of the 'Tea Party Expose' has been significantly updated. Read how a section on the tea party movement had betrayed the country and should be branded as 'traitors'. You can read it here.

Tea Party Expose, US Politics

I think it's about time we give a strong message to all politicians that we will tolerate nothing else other than the unadulterated truth. We all know that the Arizona law has nothing to do with crime prevention ... it is so obvious that illegals do not commit more crimes than the local population. But, it is a convenient facade to hide the obvious agenda, which is to 'terrorize' the immigrant population (both legal and illegal) so that they'll think twice before immigrating to America (or crawling under the fence). The local population is sick of the growing 'foregin' population and is furious about them taking their jobs.

Well, I don't expect that truth from the Arizona governor, but at the very least what I would have liked to hear from her and the legislators was something like the below.

"We have tried various options in the past to sten the flow of illegal immigrants in our state, and partly due to inadequate support from the federal government none of those initiatives have been successful. Since we cannot wait for the Federal government to fix this complex issue, we are forced to pass a tough law to combat this rampant problem. We realize that this may cause some concern to our legal immigrants, whom we welcome with open arms and who have bought enormous diversity and economic vibrancy to our state and country. However, please rest assured that we will not let this law be miused in any way and will very strictly deal with any abuses related to this law. We will not allow police officers to stop a person solely for the purpose of checking papers. We just want this law to be an additional tool in their arsenal, so that when a stop has been made for an unrelated offence, the officer has the legal authority to check the papers only if the situation demands such a request. We will be happy to discuss all the details of this new law with anybody who desires it, and will also set up a number where people call up relating to any perceived abuse of this law. We thank the residents of Arizona for their trust and cooperation."

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The dirty reality of politics is evident from this statment from the Arizona governor, Jan Brewer. "I received 5186 calls in favor of the law and 2006 calls against". Obviously, principles and justice do not play a role here. The role of the leader, whether it is a governor or a president, is not to fan the flames of fanaticism that has taken over the general population. It is to think on a higher plane and do the right thing, not just follow the mob. If joblessness and depair have made people so deseperate that they are 'desert'ing the last shreds of morality and justice, then it is the duty of the leader to try to reason with them, and not fan the flames of bigotry and injustice. It is very evident that Jan Brewer will go to any extent to keep her seat, and if signing the law is required to get herself re-elected she will do it in a flash, even if it means trashing every basic tenet of decency and justice. We do not want leaders who are looking only after themselves and we will make sure that she does not get re-elected. Obama became president because he had the guts, at at time when everyone was pandering to public fury after 9/11 and votedi n favor of the Iraq war, to strongly oppose the Iraq war and very presciently laid out the results of such an endeavour (all of which have come true). We want leaders who have what it takes to do what is right, and not just do what it takes to get re-elected.

Let's also make one more fact very clear to her. There are many people out there who are opposed to this law and haven't called her yet. So let's even out those numbers and flood her with some nay calls that the calls in favor of the law will seem like  a rounding error. Moreover, one convenient ommision from the governor is that she hasn't disclosed how many other modes of transmission she has received and hwat the count for that is. I have a feeling that neanderthals who support the law might be more amenable to using the phone (hey, there might no Internet connection in those caves) and people who have the capability to think on a higher plan might use more modern modes of communication, like email/blog posts. Even though the numbers should not matter in this decision, as the governor's job is to what's right and not just do what's popular, let's still give her a feel of the ferocity of the opposition. The number to contact the Arizona governor's office is given below, along with a link in case you prefer written communication. Feel free to vent.

Telephone (602) 542-4331
Toll Free 1-(800) 253-0883
Fax (602) 542-1381

http://azgovernor.gov/Contact.asp

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Should the common man pay the price for the decisions of the government? In many cases, as in the Iraq war and in the calls for the embargo against Iran, many Americans do believe that such an approach is justified. How else do we give a message to the government, and how else do we make them realize their mistakes? How else will we compel them to reverse their decision? Well, my initial knee-jerk reaction was to join the calls for boycott (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/us/27arizona.html?bl), especially after the more infuriating comments by the governor justifying her actions (and all the elected reps shameless using the same masquerade when they voted) as something that is required to handle the increasing crime in her state. They can try as much as they want to call this 'immigrant purging' by any other name, but luckily this time (unlike in the Iraq war) the American people are not going to fall for that joke of a reason and are not going to get brainwashed.  The sad part is that there are many Arizona residents who support this law, and we will make every effort to ram some sense and empathy into them too.

However, after some due thought, I decided that I will stick to my principle, where I will not knowingly make any innocent person suffer and pay the price of the ignorance and activisim of their racist brethren. The truth is that there are many residents in Arizona who oppose the law too, and our collective actions against the state will hurt then for no fault of theirs. That was one (small) piece of my arguments agains the Iraq war (which involved deception and sliminess on a much larger scale), and also against the secretive incarceration of 'suspects' in the years following 9/11. The same way an American drone would not target a civilian area knowingly, we will not target an area knowing that we will 'hit' innocent people as well. However, those neanderthals who passed the law need to be taught a unforgettable lesson, and I would appreciate if you have any suggestion in that regard (please leave a comment or drop in a note to admin@hitbackharder.com). I would also make our voices heard loud and clear and make sure each one of us sends a messsge to the governor and the elected reps, by using the links below (or calling).

http://az.gov and http://azgovernor.gov/

Also, lest we become like the tea party ourselves, let's try to come up with some good alternatives to combat illegal immigration, without letting the hard-working legal immigrant suffer.

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OK, I had to hold off on my tea party series of articles as this took more immediate precedence. I do not have to give my opinion of the outrageous law passed in Arizona, but all I can say is we will not take it quietly. Obviously many immigrants cannot vote yet (they are not citizens yet as the process takes a while) so passing this law may not hurt the governor politically, but we will scream loud enough that her head hurts. Let me say it one more time, as the many 'ape brains' in this country do not seem to get it (or do not care what happens to 'foreigners'). You cannot create an atmosphere of harrasment and intimidation for the legal immigrant just to catch a few illegals. This country cannot reach a stage where you have to carry your passport when you go out to throw the trash or else you might be chucked into jail. No siree, that is not done. This country invited all the legal immigrants and is partaking in all the economic they provide (hey, they gotta buy a lot of new stuff when they get here), and then hound and harass them to satisy one of your narrow objectives. It is obvious that the people who passed this law cannot empathize with the impact of this law on immigrants, and the amount of mental strain it puts on them, as they haven't lived as an immigrant anywhere themselves. But we will hammer empathy into every citizen of this country, if that is what it takes. It's also besides the point that this law applies to everybody, so citizens have a good chance at being pulled over too, and it will be good fun to see people who passed this law being pulled over and asked for birth certificates/passports. I doubt that will happen though as I have feeling that the people who passed this law do not look like an immigrant. Check out this story though, to get a feel of things to come - > http://digg.com/d31PQVn.

However, the focus of this blog is not just to voice opinions but also provide means for action. I urge every person who agrees that this law is toxic to contact the Arizona Governor and give her a piece of your mind ... heck, give her more than a piece if possible for she certainly needs some grey matter up there ...

http://www.azgovernor.gov/contact.asp

If people have the contact detials for the offices of the reps who 'ayed' this vote, please post it here so that we can clear out their earwax.

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Read Part 1 of this series here.

Playing politics is not a justification to destroy the very country the 'tea'-rexes  have been promising in their speeches to 'take back'. Starting with the Stimulus 'Bailout' Package issue, on which in fact the tea party was founded on, the leaders and establishment involvement in the tea party proved to be duplicitous crooks who knew very well that Obama and his team are doing the right thing and there is absolutely no other option than to save the banks, as the alternative would be economical anarchy and intense financial pain for every citizen of this country. But, the dirty politicians that they are, they knew they could not be caught dead agreeing with Obama on anything, and that they had to twist and malign his actions to continue with their campaigns of ‘tax and spend’, ‘democrats are bringing socialism’ and ‘big government is taking over our lives’  to continue stoking anger in their base and people with ‘malleable minds’ who were skeptical about Obama from the beginning. These are the SAME people who supported the stimulus package when the Bush administration pushed it and now are maligning Obama for ‘government take over’ when he is doing the same. That is inexcusable, bordering on criminal, deception, as their actions (knowingly opposing an important action that can protect our financial viability as a country) can bring financial destruction and erosion of our standards of living and world status. These actions are bordering on betrayal and I would classify these leaders as 'traitors', due to the impact that their action would have had on our country (if the stimulus act hadn’t passed). I repeat that politics is not a justification for such despicable actions of monumentally destructive proportions. However, I’m not blaming everybody in the tea-party for these vile acts, but only a certain ‘fringe’ who is intentionally misleading the hordes of tea party supporters. I will call these people the ‘traitors’ from now on, and without a doubt, the dubious distinction of being the ‘top traitor’ goes t onone other then Sarah Palin. To be fair, there were a few founders of this movement who were genuinely enraged at the ‘perceived’ actions of Obama, and started the tea party movement to vent out their frustrations at what they thought was a free pass for the banks and their executives. These people were horribly deluded and though the impact of their actions might be the same as the slimy elements in the party, they never intentionally betrayed the country for the purpose of politics (hey, in my books ignorance is a valid defense, though there is no excuse not to get it cured). Due to their out-dated, ignorant and narrow minded mindset I will call these group of people (which form the majority of the tea-party movement) the ‘tea’-rexes. Their partially demented behaviour and tendency to spout imaginary conspiracy theories is described well in this article in the Newsweek (“After I spent the weekend at the Tea Party National Convention in Nashville, Tenn., it has become clear to me that the movement is dominated by people whose vision of the government is conspiratorial and dangerously detached from reality. It's more John Birch than John Adams.”). Though not culpable of betraying our country directly, they might be equally responsible for the destruction of our country the way we know it, so it is critical that we push back against this movement with gigantic force that will make their ‘armageddon’ look like a ‘tea and biscuits’ party and ‘sledgehammer’ some sense into them. This is not something the rest of the country can ignore and we have to act forcefully to win this intellectual ‘civil war’ and keep America’s flag flying high.


Don’t get me wrong, they had every right to start a movement, as I believe every person who has something to say should try all means possible to make their voices heard and what better than approach than gathering like minded brethren and speaking as one voice. But, the intent, unfortunately, does not redeem the fact the intense stupidity and cluelessness of the majority who soaked up the crap of the ‘traitors’ and got swept in the wave of fury, as they just fell hook line and sinker for the horse-gooey that was being doled out by the ‘traitors’ and the republican establishment (a big portion of which is equally culpable and deserves to be counted in the group of ‘traitors’).

For your kind information, you ‘tea-sipping’ majors in moronic sciences, the stimulus package was originally conceived by Bush, Paulson and his team because they too obviously realized (the hard way actually by letting Lehman fail) that the economic volcano had to be contained before the ash spills over the entire nation and creates economic tremors in every citizen's home. There was no other option for the Obama administration to continue the Bush solution, but the 'foxy' weasels of the tea party decided that the economic stakes and citizens' welfare does not matter and all that matters is how to reclaim their seat in the next election and how they can manipulate people's thinking and convince them that Obama is a socialist and screwing the nation. The two-faced duplicty of the ‘traitors’ of this tea party movement is so despicable that you would think that even America's worst enemy's would think twice about indulging in such lowly behaviour to destroy our country, but these are America's supposed saviours who are doing their best to wreck the already fragile finances of individuals by spoonfeeding bs-shake to the general and put on this façade of patriotism by crying ‘USA, USA’ at every rally. ‘Tea’-rex posters like 'bail me out too' were pretty common during those days, but seriously those people should have their voting right revoked on the basis of sheer ignorance. Let me give a suggestion to these ‘tea’-rexes about the standard they should hold their leaders (and youself) too …just saying 'you lie' is not acceptable.. if you think the stimulus was the wrong step, then come up with a credible alternative or else stop spewing skunk dung from your hot air hole. Like the Iraq war, sooner or later you will come to your senses, and will grudgingly acknowledge the truth, which is that THERE WAS NO OTHER ALTERNATIVE THAN TO SAVE THE BANKS FROM COLLAPSING, AND THE STIMULUS PACKAGE WAS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY AND WAS PASSED TO SAVE YOU (THE COMMON MAN) AND OUR ECONOMY FROM DEVASTATION. You ungrateful wretches should be thanking your stars that you had people like the Bush/Paulson and Obama/Geithner teams, which put principles over politics and did what was right and required. Oh btw, I'm sure many of you morons must be wondering ... "oh, so did Bush actually start this stimulus/bailout thingy?" ... yes, Sherlock, get the freaking facts right before you start working yourself into a lather and do a ‘dinosaur dance’ with the rest of the ‘tea’-rexes. If you can take it, you will also realize the obvious truth soon, that the tea party leadership (the ‘traitors’ camp) is fully aware that they are misleading and brainwashing you and are intentionally following this vile path of dirty deception because their only goal is to get in power ... the welfare of the country be damned. If you can still retain a shred of your senses, give them the boot and walk out of the party and support the person who is trying his best to do what's right for the country.  

To be continued in the next part

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After watching these specimens for a long time now, here’s my take on the tea 'party animals'. The tea party movement does have a good portion of members who've been deluded and brainwashed, (brainwashing these people doesn't take much effort actually), and will swallow any horse-gooey that's handed over to them by the right-wing rogues. Hey, it didn't take them much to convince a good portion of the country that Saddam Hussein had a role in 9/11 (I can almost hear Rummy, Cheney and Rove backslapping and chuckling about how easy it was to pull wool over the public's eyes). So, we have people who were already against Obama (due to a suspicion of the unknown mainly) to begin with, hanging on to every word spoken by the Stalin Palin, the ‘What the heck’ Beck, the Vanity Hannity and the Cussy Coulter. These people don’t have much of a brain anyhow and inspite of not understanding the underlying subjects, be it the stimulus or healthcare, take every word spoken by the above dirt-worms as gospel and keep stoking the fire smoldering inside them since the election. There are a good section amongst these people who voted for Obama, mainly due to the anger against Bush for misleading them to the war (read above note, trigger happy tea sippers, on how you let them mislead you so easily and are letting these guys pull the same number on you again) and pretty soon had buyer’s remorse, as their channels were still tuned to foxy news and the republican dirt-farting machine continued from where it had left off for the election campaign and kept on maligning and distorting every move Obama made. The more they kept listening to muck-raking maniacs, the more they started believing those deceiving devils, and the more they started hating Obama. OK, so we know how these people got sucked into the tea party, pretty much the same way these guys got sucked into approving the Iraq war and did not realize the enormity of their stupidity until their own sons and daughters started dying, but what’s so shocking about the tea party is the other side.

The people who are the ‘idols’ and ‘inspiration of the tea party, and people related to them, are the treacherous traitors who are deliberately misleading the public and reaching new depths of depravity in deliberately distorting any information on Obama’s proposals and openly indulging in deception, with political gain being the sole justification. These are people who were involved in growing the tea party to it’s current position, by rabble-rousing the crowds with stunningly deliberate lies and fear-mongering. These are the real rats of the tea party movement and the ones who pose the most major threat to the future of our country. These are the people who need to be called out and smoked out to have their dirty agenda exposed in front of the entire nation. These are the people who keep going ‘wink wink nudge nudge’ amongst themselves, as they know that Obama is doing a great job and probably trying harder and doing more good than any other president in history, but they gotta tear him down in their speeches and demonize him. Obviously, you belong to the opposition and you don’t need the genius of Karl Rove to understand that these people would rather be caught with a text message from a mistress rather than with an admission that Obama is doing the right thing. You have to bury him and his party with criticism and put such a dirty spin on his proposals that it would seem that Obama himself should be declared an ‘enemy combatant’. Some die-hard defenders and unscrupulous politicians will say “why not? Everybody’s got to do what it takes to survive in politics”. Sorry, Mr. Rove Redux, that is not acceptable, and here’s why …

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The long hiatus (the second one actually) is over and even though the comeback was long overdue, for the 'tea'ception parties were getting a free pass for way too long, I've finally managed to push myself tocreate some time for contributions to this blog and have also got some more people (with brains) involved. The 2010 election will be the war of the 'un'civilizations in terms of the amount of the weapons of mass deception that will be used by the 'tea'ception parties, and what they need is a hammer-strength response of unfathomable proportions that will make their tea party meetings seem like a Jerry Springer show. More to follow in my next article ...

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The pathetic ignoramuses who wag their tails when they see their fave Foxy News' maniac and will swallow any deception from the anchors ("wink wink nudge nudge, we know there are no death panels in this plan, but hey we'll say whatever it takes to get these beef-brains worked up and start screaming for that socialist's head"). The guys, like shitty Hannity have been at it from day one like to obliterate Obama, with no limits to the extent of manipulations and poker faced lies, cause he's 'liberal' and 'socialist' as per their twisted minds and they have to get rid of him. They'll say and do anything and keep blaming him for everything (similar to what the Democrats used to do with Bush but compared to the extreme measures and level of sliminess of the right-wingers that was a lovefest). With the economy in such a shape and people worried, the people who were originally against or skeptical of Obama, kept getting more and more brainwashed by these mealy-mouthed foxes, and got sucked into the vortex of dangerous deceptions.

I experienced some of that anger when one of my doctors' kept ranting and raving about the Sotomayor confirmation hearings and about Obama's empathy statement (the law is the law .... where does the heart come in?) and not taking eyes off the f-news screen while trying to do a procedure on me. It was apparent that the fuks news guys had hatched a typically dirt-minded plot to keep stoking the fires of their viewers till they start rampaging the streets and create a loud enough hue-and-cry to start a movement against the socialists who are 'destroying the country'.

So they decided to take it out on the healthcare issue (it could be potato farming for all they care) because that is the best issue to hit back hard at the President. Well, the jokes on you mister (but nobody's laughing) as all you end up doing with your lump-headed tantrums is ensuring that you continue paying a higher health insurance premiums and continue to have healthcare costs add to the deficits. So, enjoy it all you can, because at the end of it all, you will not be smiling either.

And another small note for the smug right-wing bull-heads who are stewing in their hatred and trying to drown their opponents in their rivers of rage, one small word of advise, give it up already, for the people on the other side are not push-overs like in the bush-rove era. This time, you bundle-brains try something that is unjustified and not right, we'll turn that roars into squeaks. Burst as many veins as you can, we are not going away and don't you are raise your voices cause we will scream louder than you. We are not going to rest till every one of you cavemen sees sense and we will keep hammering it into you slowly but surely.

For people who agree, all I can suggest, even if it seems like we're borrowing a page from their books, is to shove yoursleves and all like-minded people to townhalls and scream back louder. Show them that we will never bend, and we will not deviate from the path of justice come what may.  We now have that unshakeable faith that comes from knowing without doubt what it right and what is wrong.

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The real issue hidden inside the Robert Gates Jr. fiasco in Cambridge is not something too many people want to talk about. In fact, President Obama, who very bravely waded into this issue and as usual called right on the issue had to bow down before political pressures and hushed it up. I agree that it was wrong of Gates to get all worked up and refuse to show his the ID initially, but after he showed the two forms of ID there was no reason for the officer to arrest him. The  police officer did what a lot of people in power do … flaunt it cause he could and abused it. He arrested Gates just to get back at him because he was mad at Gates for showing attitude and not respecting him. I don’t blame the officer for getting mad either, but people in power or with power have to realize that they cannot use it for personal means, and the consequences for doing so should be severe. Oh BTW, just chuck the whole freaking race thing out of the window, for this issue had nothing to do with race. 

Just imagine a situation where you are going at 10 miles/hour over the limit. An officer stops you to give you a ticket, and you get a little worked up and ask the officer why is he ticketing him for only 10 mph over the limit. The officer says ‘but you were over the limit’ and you retort back with something like (depending on how bad a day you’re having) ‘What the heck officer, going 10 mph over is a standard practice and if that’s the case then you should be ticketing everybody else too’. How would you feel if the officer arrests you for ‘resisting a ticket’ or whatever applicable law can be cooked up by the officer (let me not get into what trouble an immigrant can get into for speaking like that). There would still be a section of people saying that the driver had to no right to speak to a police officer in that tone and disrespect him, as our officers are our heroes and they spend their days and nights defending our freedom. In my opinion, you have every right to speak to an officer like you would to any other person in an equivalent situation not involving people of authority. It’s all good and deserving to call them heroes and keep highlighting the tough job that our police does to keep us safe, but at the end of the day that is the job they have chosen and no matter how tough and dangerous your job you do not earn the right to abuse power for personal gains.

OK, all this is obviously my viewpoint, based on the 'facts' I've read, but one strange aspect of this case is the actual lack of facts. Why haven't newspapers and channels gone into the details of when Gates showd the IDs (if at all) and why did Crowley arrest him. Somebody is obviously suppressing the facts and I have a feeling that somebody is not Gates.   

What our dear countrymen have to realize and I will gladly hammer into their brains, one by one, if required, is that abuse of power will not be tolerated and injustice of any sort will not be tolerated. Kudos to Gates and Obama for bringing this incident into focus. But bigger abuses of power have happened and keep happening, from the student strip search for ibuprofen at the lower end of the totem pole to the manipulation of facts and initiation of the Iraq war at the higher end. The worst part about abuses like the ibuprofen search or an erroneous 'terrorism' arrest are the pointed refusal to give an apology. I will get into that in a separate topic though and the decency to apologize for a wrong deed is another thing that might need to be sledge-hammered into the brains of people from ‘swaggersville’.

Finally, the key point of this blog is not to tolerate injustice and 'do something about it' aka 'take action!'. I welcome suggestions on how to 'take action' and whom to contact to make our opinions and voices heard on this case and no matter what it takes, get to the root of the matter.

There was one point in Yesterday’s debate (besides others) for which the democratic strategy team and Barack Obama deserve accolades of the highest kind. One area where the democrats always used to bend down in the face of republican shrewdness was in projecting themselves as supporters and true friends of our troops and military, especially when it came to the Iraq war.  The republicans made support for the war synonymous with patriotic sentiment and painting anybody speaking against the Iraq war or calling for withdrawal as unpatriotic, weak, cowardly, defeatist and accused them of murdering the honor of the country and disrespecting the soldiers who laid their lives for the country. Even John Kerry and his campaign team could not come up with a equal response even once and ended up slipping into the republican’s trap whenever they tried to talk sense into people and tell them that it was a mistake to go for this war.

John McCain shamelessly tried using the same tactic again when he talked about getting a bracelet from a fallen soldier’s mother (I’m not disputing that he did) and used that as a emotional hammer to justify support for the war and implying that anybody who called for withdrawal was dishonoring the soldiers who gave up their life in the war. I think it is indeed sad that the parents and relatives of some brave soldiers who gave up their lives for the country, even after facing such a monumental loss in their lives, do not still fathom the enormity of war, the devastation it causes to so many innocent people on both sides and how going to war to is a decision of last resort under extreme circumstances which was not the case for this war. Instead of being be hit with the bitter reality that their loved one laid down their life bravely completing the mission of the commander-in-chief (and his cronies) who deceived them and the nation into this war, which had nothing to do with 9/11 or any immediate threat like they were told. Instead of realizing that despicable minds and horrible judgment were responsible for this tragic loss they get into the mindset trap of  ‘We should complete the mission my loved one was fighting for’ and anybody who calls the war a mistake is insulting my loved one’s sacrifice.

Navigating a political minefield of this kind, that the republicans set up, required great tact and a brilliant mind. You can’t say that you respect the soldiers’ sacrifice but still think this war is a mistake. You can’t say that the brave soldiers were misled into an unnecessary war because you would be implying that soldier was fighting in vain. You can scream till you’re blue in the face that you are actually supporting the troops when you’re calling for a withdrawal, because all the war did was to place Americans outside of our secure borders (after going through all that effort to secure our borders after 9/11!) so that Al-Qaeda could get some easy target practice and not even have to bother think of ways to get into our country, for Bush made it easy for them and brought the targets out but you still will not able to outfox the republicans and make a winning argument of that. Kerry and his team didn’t even come close to figuring out a way out of this political maze (Kerry had the authority to speak on this topic as he was a veteran but he miraculously managed to make being a veteran a liability for him), let along come up with a good counter-argument.

Any ordinary candidate would be fumbling for a response after McCain, following a brilliant Rovian script, came up with the bracelet tale and cleverly turned it into an appeal to American patriotic sentiment to win renewed support for his Iraq stance. To be prepared for such an approach from McCain in itself speaks volumes for the Obama campaign’s preparedness. But what was just sublime about Obama’s response how he started it, though the rest of the response and the delivery was exceptional too. He started off by giving an equal and forceful response to the bracelet example by stating that he received a bracelet too and that soldier’s mother also asked a promise from him that no other mother would have to go through what she’s going through. That took the wind out of McCain’s emotional drama and created an equally emotional and compelling appeal for ending the war. The quality of that response and such a magnificent ‘tit for tat’ back and forth is unique in modern debating history. Obama then followed that with another magnificient truth that would connect with and appeal to every man and woman. He said that ‘no solider’s death is ever in vain’ and the simplicity, beauty and truth in that statement would have to be acknowledged by every person watching the debate. He then made the perfect finish by tying McCain’s example to the very fact that it makes it even more important for the president to have good judgement especially when it comes to going to war because that is such an enormous step.

After that response I could almost feel the body blow that Rove must have felt and the wind coming out of the republican campaign’s most resilient manipulative play, of using bluster and exploiting americans’ patriotic sentiment to generate support for the Iraq war and war measures/laws and denounce everybody speaking against the war or any legislation regarding the war as traitors. Even though the number of people supporting the Iraq war has fallen since the 2004 election it is still a very important topic and it was still crucial for Obama to come up with a compelling argument putting forth his view which he did unimaginably well. Hats off to Obamaand his campaign team.

P.S: Further Kudos to Obama for not getting rattled by McCain’s shockingly rude behaviour on stage. If I was the moderator I would put the debate to a stop after observing such condescending behavior and despicable actions like ignoring a person and looking askance when that person is talking to him as if the person does not exist or does not matter. Again that kind of unspeakably lowly behavior is unparalleled in the US debate history.

During every election all passionate voters get into frequent bouts of armchair quarterbacking and will wax eloquent about what their candidate is doing wrong and what exactly their candidate should do to win the election. The campaigns of the candidates do get a lot of email and calls from such voters and they also keep track of the campaign’s successes and missteps from TV shows and papers. For the most part though, a campaign will use the current polls as the barometer of their success or failure and a very small portion of the valuable feedback from the average American voter (and more importantly the ‘battle ground’ average American voter) makes it through to them. 

Such feedback can be pretty valuable as it is such voters that watch the daily working of both the campaigns, and follow a good portion of their speeches, attacks, counter-attacks and talking points. How such a voter perceives each of their steps and what impact their ads are having on such a voter can be very valuable for the campaigns. The campaigns might trying to cull such tactical feedback (if they’re smart) from the voters but it is not something that is very easy in spite of the information age and they might be getting drowned in a lot of conflicting feedback. Also, every body and their uncle will claim to have the magic formula for victory and will be very vocal about offering advise on what the campaign should do. I belong to that segment of the vocal population too and (like them) I believe I have developed a crystal clear insight on what the democratic campaigns have been doing wrong in the past two elections (including this one) and I have listed out detailed steps (see below) , both strategic and tactical, that the democratic campaign should take to outfox the republicans, turn the tables on each of their attacks, and easily grab the momentum back from them. I do feel that I have a hand on the pulse of the average American (especially the battleground) voter, and hence that makes me suitably qualified to give advise on how to make an impact on them.

I strongly believe if the Obama campaign learns from the mistakes made in 2004 and adopts a revamped strategy comprising of the key components listed below then this election could indeed be a 'slam dunk' (with all due respect Georgie - I mean Tenet of course) for Obama. This might make Rove put on his thinking cap again instead of pressing 'replay' on the 2004 tape (which is what he's doing now).

Hit Back Hard – Smartly 

The democrats have always feared the famed republican attack machine, which is indeed very impressive (though almost always follows their ‘web of deception’ policy), and most of the time end up with an inadequate response and just playing into their hands. What the democrats don’t realize is that these attacks are actually god’s gifts for the democrats. John Kerry just needed to do one thing to win the 2004 election and that opportunity was dropped in his lap by the republicans. In response to the swift-boating attacks he should have announced that he is going to give his response on national television (so that enough votes see it, hopefully close to the election date). In that response speech all he had to do as stand straight like a ramrod and in a tough tone deliver a knockout punch to the republicans, with words to the following effect.

“My fellow Americans, I have been following over the past couple of weeks a despicable web of deception being weaved by the campaign and friends of George W Bush. I decided that I cannot stay quiet any longer because one thing I cannot and will not tolerate is somebody attacking my patriotism and service to our beloved country. I have fought for my country selflessly and with a lot of dedication because I love my country and whenever our country is in trouble I will be the first person the frontlines. It is downright shameful that people will stoop low enough to attack, disrespect and malign our veterans, whether it is me or my friend Max Cleland or any other veteran for that matter, for the sole selfish purpose of winning elections. Our veterans have fought bravely for our country, have shed blood, and have selflessly offered their life to our nation when our nation needed it the most. I, for one, will not stand by quietly when somebody ridicules the service of those very veterans, and especially when such statements come from people who have never worn the uniform and have tried every trick in the book to wiggle out of fighting for our country and risking their life.”

Something to that effect, maybe leading that speech to an ending note of “I will be as determined to defend our nation this time around too and I assure all Americans that I will launch a manhunt of unprecedented proportions to find the terrorists who dared attack our nation.” (you get the idea). I can almost guarantee you that the election would have been in Kerry’s pocket if he had given such a speech. Ten minutes and the election would have been won! So simple, and the people who are supposed to know the voters’ brains inside out couldn’t figure this out? The Kerry campaign got away pretty lightly considering their costly incompetence and the disservice they did to the nation.

Again, the reason why it was critical to give the response has to do with the perception of the candidate and how he relates himself/herself to the average American voter, and in this case especially the ‘battleground’ American voter. Especially for Kerry, this was a golden opportunity to shatter his image of a weak, waffling, French poodle (that the republicans smartly cultivated) and show some toughness and bluster that the battleground voter likes to see in their candidates.

 It is crucial that the Obama campaign understands this very well because the republicans are still sticking to the same strategy as 2004, because it is still working! (boy, they must be laughing their pants off). The republicans are really good at tarnishing the image of a candidate (using blatant deception most of the times) and diminishing the credibility of the candidate in the voters’ eyes. They are doing the same thing to Obama that they did with Kerry (remember the waffling French poodle) and Obama is dangerously close to having the image that republicans are painting of him stick to him forever (or at least till the election).

The sad part is that these attacks are actually gifts for the republicans as I mentioned before, and almost every one of them can be made to turn around like a boomerang and knock them out. For example, as I wrote in this post hitting back the right way, and at the right time, is all it takes to turn the tables on the republican attacks and make the attacks work against the republicans themselves. Another example of an unjustified republican attack is the one that the McCain campaign came up with recently accusing Obama of ‘Not being a leader during the financial crisis and not taking a stand’. Again, all Obama has to do is stand straight like a ramrod, and ina sincere and tough tone flood all the mediums (and make a public appearance on TV as this is an important issue) with his response, which should be something to the effect of:

“The McCain campaign has once again taking the low road and playing the politics of deception by deliberately distorting the truth. It is sad that they are willing to stoop so low to win an election and have taken to lying blatantly to win votes.  Now, let me tell you the truth on the financial crisis that we witnessed recently and is still by no means done with. Much before the crisis came to this stage I was one of the few advocating improving the regulation of the wall street companies as they were definitely not doing a good job of regulating themselves and were putting a lot of people’s money and the economy at risk. Now the whole financial world is coming around to that same conclusion and have recently announced that the wall street investment will be converted to commercial banks and will be subject to more regulation.

I have been right on the economy long before John McCain figured out what was wrong with it. In fact, the truth is that John McCain and the republican party was completely flummoxed by the recent crisis, caught unawares, at a loss for solutions, and have been flip-flopping on their statements every day. This past Monday, when the crisis was in full swing, John McCain said regulation is not the answer, and on Wednesday he flip-flopped and agreed that more regulation was indeed required. On Monday, he said that the government should not help AIG and interfere in free markets, and on Wednesday he changed his tune yet again. The truth is that McCain is clueless on the economy and on how to handle the financial crisis, and he is casting blatantly false allegations on his opponent to divert people from the truth and cover up his woefully inadequate and clueless response to the financial crisis.”

Again, words to that effect, with a nice head and tail, concluding with the democratic record on the economy and highlighting how his economic policies will help the average American and the economy. That is all it takes to blunt the republicans attacks and make them work against the republicans themselves. The risk of not responding to the attacks is that some of the mud that the republicans are throwing will stick on Obama’s image (hey, we know that many voters are gullible enough to fall for these deceptions). That is what the republicans are trying here again, to paint a negative image of Obama as somebody who does not have any leadership qualities and is clueless on the economy.

In conclusion, it is critical that the Obama campaign wakes up now, and open up a 24 hour communication room whose one important duty would be to pro-actively monitor republican attacks, plan monstrous responses to republican attacks, and turn the  republican attack machine against the republicans themselves. It is very important to understand the mindset of the battleground voter, who likes to see a little of himself/herself in the presidential candidate and when they see somebody who cannot defend himself, even against unjustified attacks, they perceive him to be weak, under-confident, lacking leadership or guilty as charged. Such an image, especially during a time of war, can be political suicide and the democrats need to work right away on building the image of their candidate (and also at chipping away the image of their opponent(s).

That was just one aspect, albeit the most important one, of the multi-pronged revamped campaign strategy that I’m advocating. The rest of the points that I have in mind, that should form a part of the complete Obama campaign strategy, are listed below. I will elaborate on each one of these points listed below in the coming days.

Do not zig while they zag

While the republicans were pounding Obama as usual he decided to attack back. Great. What exactly did he attack them with? While they were pounding him about the ‘Lipstick’ comment and Oil Drilling, he chose to send out an attack ad saying that McCain is out of touch (can’t type email) and that his term will be Bush’s third term. Huh? Firstly, that attack is stale and most importantly you have to attack back on the same topic. You cannot avoid a response to an attack and hope that it’ll go away. It makes you appear real chicken and that does not go down well with the battleground voter. More recently while McCain was bashing Obama about 'not taking a stand during the financial crisis' and 'not providing leadership' Obama decided to attack back by talking about McCain's social security program and economic policies. If you want to win, remember this very important rule - hit back on the topic of their attack FIRST and then talk about something else. Check out this article where I've given one example of how to take their attacks head on and turn their attack machine on themselves.

Do Not Blame Bush/McCain for Everything

Your attack strategy should go beyond "this problem is due to the failed policies of Bush/McCain". Look, we understand Bush is unpopular and you would like to keep on tying McCain to Bush. Got it. Now, let's move on. Over the past few years even democratic voters are getting tired of listening to empty critisicms and not anything more substantive (the critisicms are important mind you, but they have to be more substantive too). Recently when the financial world was crumbling Obama went on his usual 'tape' of "The failed policies of Bush/McCain are responsible for this mess". Firstly, it makes you sound like a typical politician because this statement has been repeated by every democratic offocie holder on earth for everything (if it gets too hot in summer then it's Bush policies on global warming). In fact, it behooves you to speak positively once in a while, especially when the other side has really done a good job, because it makes you look like you are an objective and magnanimous person and not the typical scheming politican. It rasies your image in the voters' mind, especially the battleground voter. If Bush did a good job with Gustav then tell the voter that "even though the Bush government totally mismanaged the Katrina aftermath they did a good job on planning for Gustav and I congratulate them for it". That way when you hit hard on the issues which need hard hitting people will listen to you intently and will believe you.

The Iraq war, 9/11 and security are still very important

You can never ignore security as a campaign issue, especially during the time of war. Add a little bit of bluster to your persona (Mr. Obama) and tell the nation how your judgement proved right on the Iraq war and how our brave soliders and their families paid such a big price due to one horribly wrong decision by the president. Get ANGRY (don't explode though) and tell the nation that the pieces of dirt who attacked us on 9/11 are still out there and whether it is important for Bush and McCain or not it will be one of his missions' during his presidency to hunt down the rats who killed Americans on American soil (a little bit of bluster is NECESSARY considering the voters you are targeting and very importantly will go some way towards taking that 'tough on security' mantle off the republicans which is very important). Do not ignore security and focus just on the economy as a campaign issue. Remember, the Iraq war still generates very strong passions amongst voters and you got to remind them that you were right and McCain is still wrong on it. Hit the republicans back HARD with the very security stick that they consider to be their sole domain.

Splash on some Americana and bond with small town Americans

Go for a training course if you have to, for god’s sake, and learn to relate and bond with the battleground votes which means that you should add a little bit of ‘Americana’ to your personality and delivery style. Heck (yeah, use that too) talk about football, talk about how great our country is (they like to hear that – America is exceptional!) and you’d like to keep it that way. Talk about one of your biggest priorities being hunting down Bin Laden and dragging him out of his rat hole to the States and teach him and his comrades the consequences of attacking America (bluster helps with these folks … yeah for that matter use ‘folks’ too). Tell them it’s obviously not a priority for Bush and McCain but you cannot rest in peace till we get the guys who killed 3000 americans … you get the idea. Now go for it, cowboy.

Fight Nationally.

Don’t just fight local in the battleground statesIt is a mistake to think the rest of the country doesn’t need to see/hear the campaigns you are fighting in the battleground states. Some of the issue though present conflicting interest in different states and those can be left alone, but is important that you build your image nationally as that is crucial for a presidential campaign and provides the synergy you need.

Wrest the initiative on the attacks.

Show the other side for what they are. Remember, you got to chip away on the other side’s image the same way they’re chipping at yours. 

Read my article on how to hit back at Palin and McCain. Click here to read my latest post on the final republican attack assault on Obama and how to turn it to Obama's advantage.

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I can't believe that the Obama campaign's comeback after Palin's Peak and some nasty attacks by Republicans consisted of the same recycled stale news that McCain is out of touch and is a Bush redux. Common guys, if you can't do better than that then admit it and resign and let somebody else do a capable job for the first time in a democratic campaign after JFK (and I certainly don't mean Kerry). I'll give you a quick rundown of what you should be doing.

Whenever the McCain campaign comes out with an attack ad (or verbal attack) HIT BACK with a HUGE RESPONSE which should just floor them. For example, I've outlined in my previous post how you should have responded to the 'Lipstick Ad' (Post link - http://www.hitbackharder.com/blogengine.net/post/2008/09/10/Why-isnt-the-Obama-campaign-hitting-back-harder-on-the-Lipstick-on-a-pig-comment.aspx). The response to the 'Sex Education' attack should have been equally forceful with the idea that the tables should be turned on their intention to use the attack to create a negative image of Obama as a person, make him lose his credibility and attack his very character to show him as person who is no way eligible to be president. These attacks are god's gifts to to the democrats and provide an effortless way to undermine the credibility of McCain and show their campaign (and their candidate by association) as scheming, immoral and knowingly manipulating the American voter's minds to get elected.

As I wrote in the lipstick post the monstrous response to every attack should include words like 'The McCain campaign has knowingly twisted Senator's Obama's words (and/or votes) and has adopted a lowly road to this campaign of trying blatantly cheap and dirty tricks to get elected.' The same approach can be used for the Sex education attack.  It is completely obvious from the law that Senator Obama voted for that this law can by no means be called sex education and is a very well-intentioned measure to prevent our children from getting abused and make our children aware of the predators that are around'. There is no room for doubt for any person who has read this law, so this clearly shows that once more the McCain campaign has adopted the disgusting tactic of spreading blantant lies about Senator Obama to malign him and create a nagative image of him amongst the voters. They have compromised their principles so far thay they don't even think twice about knocking down laws that protect our children fr0om the horrors of abuse.' ... I'm sure you get the idea and can take it up from here.

It is extremely critical that the response is given back immediately after an attack and should be so huge that it should flood every communications medium and should not only drown their attack but should show them in extremely poor light for adopting such underhanded and lowly campaign tactics. Any delay in responding or more importantly (which is what is happening) NOT RESPONDING seriously endangers the image of the candidate under attack (Senator Obama) which is very difficult to reverse once it sticks (like it happenned with John Kerry .. .very difficult to shake off the image of a waffling weak french poodle). Also, I'm surprised that the All American campaign teams cannot be insightful enough to figure out how an ordinary american average joe from the mainlands (the 'battlegrounds' which the Obama campaign is supposed to be focusing on) thinks. They respect a guy who stands up for himself and defends himself from unjustified attacks and would likely think of a guy to who keeps quiet under attacks as weak (or guilty as charged). That is one image you cannot afford to have for your candidate especially in a time of war when national security is always in the background of voters' minds. I haven;t spent all my time in America but it's amazing that I can feel the pulse of a regular American much more easily that the Obama campaign folks. There's very little time for you guys to change tack and I implore not to reject any advice outright and come up with a forceful campaign which gives due importance to the importance of image building in a campaign.

 More to follow .. there's so much so add on the winning campaign strategy. 

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 I am glad that all our effort of like-minded people who want Obama to hit back harder is paying off. This article gives us hope - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26667449.

Way to go Obama. Show that you are not a scaredy cat, that you can stand straight and defend yourself strongly against blatantly false and demeaning allegations.

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I have to admit that the final push for the site came from the right wing conspiracy which led to the Iraq war, which is probably the basis for a lot of liberal blogging out there and is a kind of cliched reason, but it wasn't just the war itself; it was more the events which followed the war, culminating in the 2004 election campaign by Republicans (and the wimpy response by Democrats) which finally made me kick through my lethargy and think seriously about getting this site out. It still took a long time coming after that but I knew I had to get this out before the 2008 election, as I always regretted not airing my views about how Kerry's campaign should be run as I believe that might have helped him.

I knew the American mainstream does not like to see a wimpy president (the clever gop campaign made Kerry look like one and he obliged by playing the scaredy cat), especially during a time of war, and Kerry had to hit back harder at them. I had the lines that I was sure would electrify the public and make him come out stronger from the swiftboating and host of other attacks (it's no use repeating those lines now but the clever GOP is using some of those for Mccain this time).  Well, this time I will make sure I will air my views and I hope that some of the Obama campaign folks manage to somehow read this and it somehow helps them, at the very least in not repeating the mistakes of the last election. Whenever the republicans attack the democratic candidate, try to diminishing his/her image, paint him/her in a negative light or throws false allegations at him/her, you have no choice but to hit back harder or else you run a real risk of a permamnt/irreversable damage to your image (remember the waffling french poodle) ... but you have to be real smart about to how to hit back harder and use their own words and attacks like a boomerang which comes back to give them a big blow. 

It's not tough at all but it is a shame that democratic strategists haven't shown that kind of smarts (and I'm not talking just about negative attacks here) and basic intuitive understanding of how a regular American (or a regular human being for that matter) thinks and how to build the image and credibility of a person so that it resonates with the common man's feelings. 

This blog does have a higher purpose though which I will pursue after the 2008 elections. Right now it is critical that we all focus our energies on this important task. Till then the main purpose of this site will be to devise an unbetable campaign strategy for the democrats and laying out in detail how to hit back harder at the republicans so cleverly that every one of their moves goes against themselves and they will be left scrambling for ideas .

Have fun reading and do drop a comment with your thoughts.

I have to admit that the final push for the site came from the right wing conspiracy which led to the Iraq war, which is probably the basis for a lot of liberal blogging out there and is a kind of cliched reason, but it wasn't just the war itself; it was more the events which followed the war, culminating in the 2004 election campaign by Republicans (and the wimpy response by Democrats) which finally made me kick through my lethargy and think seriously about getting this site out. It still took a long time coming after that but I knew I had to get this out before the 2008 election, as I always regretted not airing my views about how Kerry's campaign should be run as I believe that might have helped him.

I knew the American mainstream does not like to see a wimpy president (the clever gop campaign made Kerry look like one and he obliged by playing the scaredy cat), especially during a time of war, and Kerry had to hit back harder at them. I had the lines that I was sure would electrify the public and make him come out stronger from the swiftboating and host of other attacks (it's no use repeating those lines now but the clever GOP is using some of those for Mccain this time).  Well, this time I will make sure I will air my views and I hope that some of the Obama campaign folks manage to somehow read this and it somehow helps them, at the very least in not repeating the mistakes of the last election. Whenever the republicans attack the democratic candidate, try to diminishing his/her image, paint him/her in a negative light or throws false allegations at him/her, you have no choice but to hit back harder or else you run a real risk of a permamnt/irreversable damage to your image (remember the waffling french poodle) ... but you have to be real smart about to how to hit back harder and use their own words and attacks like a boomerang which comes back to give them a big blow. 

It's not tough at all but it is a shame that democratic strategists haven't shown that kind of smarts (and I'm not talking just about negative attacks here) and basic intuitive understanding of how a regular American (or a regular human being for that matter) thinks and how to build the image and credibility of a person so that it resonates with the common man's feelings. 

This blog does have a higher purpose though which I will pursue after the 2008 elections. Right now it is critical that we all focus our energies on this important task. Till then the main purpose of this site will be to devise an unbetable campaign strategy for the democrats and laying out in detail how to hit back harder at the republicans so cleverly that every one of their moves goes against themselves and they will be left scrambling for ideas .

Have fun reading and do drop a comment with your thoughts. 

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