Remember the excuse? "Gibbs didn't scold the base. He attacked the professional left. Its different"

[Mefistofeles]

Every time the administration (Gibbs, Obama, Biden) attacks the base, defenders use the following defense: "He did not really attack the base. He attacked the "professional left," or "some democrats. he didn't say base."

That excuse just died today, as Joe Biden is quoted (not paraphrasing, quoting) as telling Democrats to "remind our base constituency to stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives. This president has done an incredible job. He's kept his promises."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/27/joe-biden-stop-whining-democratic-base_n_741160.html

[xchrom]

1. Joe Biden gives credit card companies a Boner. Nt

[avaistheone1]

6. LOL

[Snotcicles]

24. Gave me an idea for a bumper sticker.

Outsource the Orangesource
Ship Boehner to China

[avaistheone1]

25. roflmao

:thumbsup:


I think it's a winner.

[Moondog]

2. Apparently the leadership

needs to be reminded to stop whining about the base, and start representing the interests of the people that actually elected them.

[Melissa G]

38. Excellent response. The people who elected them vs the people who fund them.

That is the challenge. Who are they representing?

[Radical Activist]

3. "stop whining and get out there and look at the alternatives"

Good message! Way to go Joe!

This is a different message than the professional left comment, which wasn't directed at the average person. But, I know some people are eager to feel insulted by this administration.

[avaistheone1]

13. How inspiring!!!

Not!

[tinymontgomery]

42. How come the teacher is not forceing this student

to stay awake? :sarcasm: The teacher must be one of those below averge rated ones. It couldn't be that the parents let him stay up half the night, or maybe he is working so he has money to buy games. Of course I've known students that contributed to the family income out of need. Or maybe he wears a hat in class to hide his eyes but try to take it off during class and the parents will be all over the teacher. Also maybe he is finished his work, yea that's the ticket.

Just saying.

[old mark]

14. We sure didn't have to wait long for the clarification, either...nt

[depakid]

22. I guess we'll find out whether Joe is utterly tone deaf or a 3d chess player in 36 days

Personally, I think that this is probably the single most counterproductive thing that the administration could continue doing (unless as has been suggested by some, that they want to lose in order to improve their own re-election chances.

Rather than channelling Phil Gramm, they ought to be throwing out red meat and providing concrete plans for how they're going to further their constituencies' interests.

Of course, that's old school stuff- guys like Franken for example, with their populist rhetoric, they're playing checkers. Haranguing the base is much more effective in the current political and economic climate.

[Radical Activist]

33. Red meat and plans are there.

I don't see you posting about them though. Why not be helpful and spread the word about Obama's progressive proposals that are being blocked by the Senate? It might help increase the Democratic majority.

[depakid]

35. What, you mean the middle class tax cut vote? DOJ decisions that boggle the mind?

Hey at least Franken's out there with one- though I haven't seen the leadership running over to jump on his bandwagon with it.

Might be wise to do so.

[Catherina]

47. Yeah, Way to inspire voters radical DLC style. Fuck him and the idiots who support this n/t

[Mefistofeles]

4. He said this during a fundraiser. Obama attacked the left during a fundraiser too

Looks like hippie-punching=$$$.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/09/17/obama/index.html

[dionysus]

41. ah, recycling dreck from the lord high douchenozzle... classic.

:rofl:

[KittyWampus]

46. Yeah Newbie, like you aren't a transparent Shit-stirrer

[MineralMan]

5. Sounds like capital advice to me. When I consider the

alternatives, it scares the crap out of me, and should do the same for anyone with any sense of history and of the future. Sounds like something we should all be doing...every day. But, hey...that's just me, the pragmatic liberal. What do I know? :shrug:

[Skidmore]

7. recommending your response

[Mefistofeles]

8. What a sensible liberal

[MineralMan]

15. Why, thank you very much.

Approbation is so hard to come by that I feel very uplifted by yours. And how novel of you to include that cartoon in your post. I believe that's the first time I've seen that done. How clever! :hug:

[alcibiades_mystery]

12. Unlike the OP, your goal isn't, apparently, to get GOP radicals elected into the Congress

So there's that.

[MineralMan]

16. That is most certainly true.

To steal a quote from Martin Luther's catechism.

[prolesunited]

9. This post settles it for me

I'm never voting for another Democrat again!

[MineralMan]

17. Oh, had you been planning to before? Really?

[prolesunited]

28. Ooops, forgot this

:sarcasm:

[BlueCheese]

10. This GOTV campaign...

... may need to fine-tune their message a little bit.

[avaistheone1]

18. Bwah hahahahaahha!

:spray: :spray: :rofl:


Y'ah think so?

[glitch]

11. I wish they'd stop whining about the left. It makes them look pathetic and that

doesn't help GOTV.

[avaistheone1]

20. It's the new DLC "be very afraid" campaign.

Being very afraid is not just for republicans anymore.

[glitch]

26. Perhaps we should be happy they're disassociating themselves from the left.

It would be humiliating to be associated with something so craven.

[Bonobo]

36. Ava nails it.

Tea Baggers are the terrorists for the left to be afraid of.

Same strategy.

Only the names change.

Fear. Fear. Fear.

Don't hope, hope, hope.

[tavalon]

19. That just means that Joe isn't as good an abusive spouse

as the rest of the group. He loses points for plausible deniability.

[stray cat]

21. If we are free to disagree with them and hold them accountable -they are free to do so as well

[depakid]

23. LOL- here's news: it ain't a two way street

those who think it is are invariably in for electoral disappointment.

[scheming daemons]

29. The people whining the loudest fall into two camps:

A) Those who won't vote Democratic, and are more or less trolls and provacateurs.

B) Those who are disappointed and whine incessantly, but will vote Democratic anyway.



In either case... calling the whiners what they are is not going to affect any of their votes.

[depakid]

30. People who repeatedly tout conspiracy theory end up not being taken seriously

and I suspect that you too will find to your dismay that the "harangue and insult the base" strategy doesn't yield political dividends.

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[Radical Activist]

32. Perceptive comment.

[Alcibiades]

40. and c.

c. those who are disappointed and whine incessantly, and will vote Democratic, but won't donate their time or money

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[inna]

31. Are you effing kidding me??

Oh boy.

:nuke:

[MadHound]

37. No longer does a candidate have to run on their record or their platform,

Instead they're running on fear. Fear of the other side, fear of what will happen, fear, fear, fear.

It makes for a mighty poor way of running the country. Politicians are just that much less accountable for their record and platform. Instead, they just scream fear.

[spanone]

39. whine on

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

43. So, Joe is blaming the Left for the adminstration's failures and sell-outs?

“He reminds one of the man who murdered both his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.” - Abraham Lincoln

[SidDithers]

44. I see the Daily Outrage™ has been determined for today...

Sid

[Edweird]

45. "We suck a little less so shut up and like it." Yeah baby!