Barack,Where's the Outrage?

Yesterday I wrote about the need for a press conference or special speech regarding a clarification of Barack’s record and an effort to explain the truth of the Obama history and positions for all to see. Well, I have given this a lot of thought today, and after reading a lot of heartfelt and impassioned blogs and listening to Ed Schultz, Thom Hartmann and Mike Malloy on the radio, particular tonight, I have ramped up my opinion on what kind of reaction Barack and Joe should have on the lies being made against them on a daily basis.

It’s pretty simple, really. Call a liar a liar. When John McCain says that you have no record in the US Senate, you say, “Senator McCain, you are a liar! I have had enough of your lies and distortions of my record. You know damn well that…” and then you can clarify what the truth is. When Sarah Palin repeats her ridiculous assertion that being the mayor of Wasilla is kinda like being a community organizer, you should be saying, “Mrs. Palin, apparently you have not a clue what being a community organizer does,” and then you can go on to explain what you did as a community organizer, which is a fabulous and noble profession.

When McCain strategist Tucker Bounds told Campbell Brown on CNN that both Obama and Biden voted for the legislation containing the “bridge to nowhere,” which they absolutely did not, Obama and Biden both should have been on the TV within twenty minutes saying in a very indignant manner “Mr. Bounds speaking on behalf of the McCain campaign just lied to CNN about my record. I did not vote for the bridge to nowhere, and he knows that I didn’t and is being instructed to lie by John McCain and Karl Rove.” When the latest ad came out painting Obama as advocating teaching sex education to little children, Barack needs to come out immediately and completely and vehemently denounce this type of ad as unacceptable, below the belt, absolutely despicable and reflective of people who are so desperate that they’ll say anything to get elected.

I watched the Obama interview over the past two days on Keith Olbermann and with all due respect, Barack, you are too kind, too literate and just too esoteric. I suggest following the KISS doctrine that McCain and Palin obviously follow, which is keep it simple, speak in short spurts so that people of every level of intelligence get what you’re saying, and when they say that you’ll raise taxes, you say “I will not raises taxes on anyone but rich people. I have had enough of McCain lying about my record and position.” When Palin or any of the other Republican clones say that you are so weak on terrorism that you’ll insist that terrorist get their rights read to them, you say, “Well, I know this is hard for McCain and Palin to understand, but I actually insist on following the constitution of the United States.”

Barack, we can win this, and I know that you are a nice guy. As a matter of fact, Joe Biden is a wonderful and honest guy, too, but being nice and sweet and genteel will only win you points at a neighborhood barbeque. McCain, Palin, Rove and their attack dogs are playing hardball. They are in the process of defining you, just like they did John Kerry. Kerry was an acknowledged war hero that they turned into a US hating unpatriotic buffoon. That became known as Swiftboating. Let’s not allow it to happen again.