The truthful one, or the made up shit?
On Wednesday, President Obama flew to Colorado, a key battleground, where he pushed the issue of access to contraceptives, which is also the subject of a campaign ad in swing states featuring quotes from Romney attacking Planned Parenthood.
In Denver, Obama was introduced by Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University law student who briefly became a political celebrity this spring when her comments about the need for Catholic universities to provide contraceptive coverage drew an attack by radio host Rush Limbaugh, who called her a “slut.”
While Obama sought to expand the gender gap, which is especially pronounced among single women, Romney spent a second day going after the president about welfare, using a line of attack that centers on the administration’s willingness to let states change current welfare-to-work rules.
Time’s up.
The problem with Romney’s ridiculous attack is how it’s so easily refutable. Indeed, Romney as governor asked for a waiver on the work requirement of welfare reform. He can run all the ads he wants but the first time the issue is brought up in debate– or indeed, any issue like healthcare reform that Romeny was against being against before he was against being for– Obama will hammer him for denying other people the same opportunities the people of Massachussetts have.
Which keys into the whole “elitist, out of touch, aphotic asshole” trope that Romney seems to determine to run on.
Meanwhile, President Obama’s issue of the rollback of women’s rights seems to be a sure-fire winner, in that it has the truth solidly behind it with someone in front of the issue who’s stance on it has been solid: no one questions Obama’s commitment to women’s rights and equality. From the Lily Ledbetter Act to the confirmation of Elena Kagan to the SCOTUS, no President has been as firmly on the side of women as Obama. Clinton, maybe, but you’d have to ignore the whole “Slick Willie” side of him.
Romney and Obama are both appealing to fears, but only Obama’s fear-mongering has the truth behind it and that’s thanks to the GOP as a whole. From Virginia’s transvaginal ultrasound to South Carolina’s support for rapists….you read that correctly…women across the nation should and are going to be terrified to vote for a Republican.
And who would blame them?
DOCTOR Jill Stein rides in on a 3rd party unicorn to save progressives from the taint of corporate duopoly.
and neither is the Green party. Too many latte-sippers. I’d guess there are two decdes or more of grassroots work and organizing still to do if we want an actual answer. The left has tried infiltrating the Dems for a while now and it hasn’t worked – it’s been used as canvassing and donation fodder then sidelined. Maybe there’s no Plan B answer but it’s surely worth a try.
Look at the rock-solid institutional foundations built by the USian conservative movement since 1968. Youth are not being cultivated in the progressive/liberal tradition with nearly the same depth & breadth.
Thanks to the steady encroachment of [g]libertarian agit-prop that piggy-backed into the public consciousness via the Reagan revol, we’re losing a generation to the cult of propertarian anarcho-capitalism. Progs desperately need to erect a solid, long-term base if they are to build a better tomorrow.
history shows that people accept fantasy instead…up to the point that it is flat-out impossible to ignore Fact any more.
Hence, Romney (however bad) still remains stubbornly viable as the counterbalance to Obama, the inconvenient fact being that Older, White America is still having trouble with a Black President, and that Whites aren’t the majority in most, of not all the high-population, high-output/profit/employment States.
Find ways to prevent those unwashed masses from voting, and the fantasy of White Conservative America still shimmers the mirage before the eyes…where those ‘others’ shut up and do as they’re told, and We’re still ‘in charge’….
blergh…
“It’s no longer IOKIYAR….It’s OK If You’re A Republican, but IOKBYAR–It’s OK BECAUSE You’re a Republican.” — Me
We don’t really care about either of these issues. I mean, people care but those folks have already chosen sides (and they don’t switch.) The ones in the middle out here are the ones who are looking at the economy, the lack of jobs, the failure in mortgage reform for any non-bank entity. Obama comes up stinky on all these issues. They distrust the FED and the constant pumping of money into the banks to keep the stock market propped up. To top it off, we live right next door to SLC, the Mormon boogey man isn’t so unfamiliar or scary to Coloradans.
This is Obama’s problem in CO: it’s hard to imagine Mitt Romney doing a worse job on the issues we care about. He definitely could do a worse job, but you would have to really work to envision how that would happen.
Do you live in a city on the Eastern part of the country? It’s not a slight on you, I’m just wondering because the frame of this article seems to come from that viewpoint of what is important in this election. If anything, the one social issue we might be receptive to right now would be gun control given recent events. But I’m guessing the big O said nil about that. Denver is not NYC or DC, the economy is slaying us out here man.
would be climate change as Denver enters it’s 85th (or close) day above 90 degrees this year. Neither candidate wants to talk about that, but let me tell you the farmers are getting very, very ready to talk about it.
Missed chances about what actually affects us deeply in the Midwest and West. This is why many people have checked out of this election, there is no candidate that is championing our needs above their own.