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“Cowardly”
DCCC Executive Director Brian Wolff sent the following message to DCCC supporters:
Dear Friend,
The Republican Convention is officially over and anyone who saw it this
week saw a Party so desperate to hold back the wave of change sweeping
America that their attack machine reached a new low. They didn't just attack Barack Obama, Joe Biden and all of our Democratic candidates for change. They turned their fire directly on YOU.
Devoid of new ideas and forced to defend the Bush-Cheney-McCain status quo, we knew they would try something daring. But mocking the very idea that grassroots advocates like you can create change is a move so cowardly and desperate that it needs the swiftest and strongest response we can muster. It's even more outrageous that it's coming from John McCain's campaign, when McCain has voted with George Bush 90% of the time.
The DCCC has activated our Rapid Response Team to fight back and not let any Karl Rove Swift-boat Style attack go unanswered. Let's make a powerful statement to the Republicans - that they can't stop our movement for change.
Contribute to our Rapid Response Efforts in the Next 24 Hours and your gift of $15, $25, or more will be MATCHED dollar-for-dollar by House Democrats.
The fire being spewed from the GOP attack squad must've brought tears of joy to Karl Rove's eyes. Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Palin, one after another, the GOP's heaviest hitters ridiculed the very idea that ordinary Americans can create change – whether it be through community organizing or grassroots support for change-minded candidates for Congress.
But let's remind them that this year is different. No attack will go unanswered and no smear against our candidates or our supporters will be tolerated. But we have to act fast.
Contribute to our Rapid Response Efforts in the Next 24 Hours and your gift of $15, $25, or more will be MATCHED dollar-for-dollar by House Democrats.
This election is too important to let the Republicans attack and distract their way into giving John McCain and Sarah Palin and more Republicans in Congress the chance to continue the out-of-touch Bush-Cheney policies for another four years.
But we need your help to respond in the next 24 hours. Let's show McCain that no spin can change the truth – we can't afford four years of John McCain.
Thanks,
Brian Wolff
DCCC Executive Director
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It was interesting to read through the transcript of John McCain’s speech. So much empty rhetoric and double-speak! So now the Republican platform is all about “change?” Change to what? Sure looks like more of the same to me: Addicted to Big Oil and war-mongering!
“Ground noise and static,” to quote McCain himself. Smoke and mirrors. Chewing gum and baling wire. Really, guys…a blind man could see through the thin veil that this irrational and irresponsible Republican ticket is attempting to use to disguise the inherent flaws of their party.
If you like the latest news about the economy, the 6.1% job loss rate and continued bleeding of American jobs to foreign countries, the millions without health care, skyrocketing fuel and utility prices without smart energy alternatives, global instability and lack of diplomacy to accomplish genuine and lasting peace among nations, the fundamental religious controlling your life, your body, and your thoughts, the condoning of teenage pregnancies instead of providing funding for educational prevention programs, and the proliferation of general ignorance…then keep believing that the “maverick” and the “hottie” are going to bring meaningful, sustainable change to our nation or be able to negotiate intelligent and responsible solutions and peaceful evolution to world problems.
I thought they pretty much presented the facts. They didn’t hit at me at all.
In order to counter the information, what has Obama ever led or managed and what signifant changes for the better has he led the way on since he’s been in elected office (or even before). What, in short, is his leadersip experience?
Thank you.
Someone needs to grammar-check your messages more closely. The following sentence from your message has a dangling modifer, and the result is that the sentence says exactly the opposite of what you mean it to say.
“Devoid of new ideas and forced to defend the Bush-Cheney-McCain status quo, we knew they would try something daring.”
A modifier “dangles” when the sense of the sentence runs one way but the grammar runs another. Here “Devoid” and “forced” are participles, the action of which is performed by the grammatical subject of the sentence (“we”), not the subject intended (“they”).
I hear your claim that that the Republicans mocked grass roots activism, but you don’t offer any evidence to back up that claim. A quote and someone else’s web page where it could be independently verified would be good.
Mr. Brian Wolff,
Please, please be honest when you communicate with us. You wrote in your email “But mocking the very idea that grassroots advocates like you can create change is a move so cowardly and desperate” and your statement is false. They did no such thing. They did not mock grass roots advocates. I watched the Republican convention and they did just the opposite by emphasizing the grass roots effort that put Sarah Palin in the governor’s office. Please include evidence to back your future claims as Eli Dumitru of Medford, Oregon requests in this blog.
What change are you going to make Washington? It is still unclear. Change can be for the better or for the worse and the devil is in the details. Please just tell us what you are going to do in Washington and stop attacking each other. Where is the dignity in these back and forth barbs?
Please STOP TAX INCREASES and shrink the size of our government. Congress can not manage existing programs let alone any new programs. REPAIR SOCIAL SECURITY AND MEDICARE PROGRAMS NOW! Both parties have misappropriated the reserve funds and bankrupted these programs. You spent the reserve money on other things and replaced it with an IOU. You have put the U.S. in the position of having to pay interest to foreign lenders on money our nation borrows rather than collecting interest payments on money we should have been loaning out. Our government is and has been bankrupt for decades. You just keep printing more money and our nation is deeply in debt. I just learned that Congress has guaranteed the Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac failures and added trillions of dollars of potential liability to American tax payers. Enough is enough already!
Thank you Mr. Wolff.