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HuffPo’s current headline:
NO MORE MR. NICE GUY
Obama Launches Ads Targeting 11 "Centrist" Dems
Ignoring criticism – namely from Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid – that intra-party targeting was ineffective, Barack Obama’s campaign arm is expanding its health care ad buy into the districts of key conservative House Democrats.
Late Friday night Organizing for America and the Democratic National Committee announced the expansion of the "It’s Time" ad purchase, which uses personal stories of health care struggles to drive home the need for reform. The initial purchase was on national cable and in eight states with critical Democratic and moderate Republican Senators.
Now the scope of the campaign is expanding. The ad will appear in the media markets that overlap with the congressional districts of 15 members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Eleven of those districts belong to Democrats, including Rep. Zack Space (Ohio), Rep. John Barrow (Georgia), Rep. Jay Inslee (Washington), Rep. Mike Ross (Arkansas), Rep. Bart Gordon (Tennessee), Rep. Baron Hill (Indiana), Rep. Charlie Melancon (Louisiana), Rep. Mike Doyle (Pennsylvania), Rep. Jim Matheson (Utah), Rep. Bart Stupak (Michigan), Rep. Jerry McNerney (California).
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B b b but two weeks ago, per WaPo:
In a pre-holiday call with half a dozen top House and Senate Democrats, Obama expressed his concern over advertisements and online campaigns targeting moderate Democrats, whom they criticize for not being fully devoted to "true" health-care reform.
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When it comes to democrats, the adjectives “centrist,” “moderate,” and “conservative” seem to all mean the same people, and so does the term “hypocrite.”
Hoo-yah to that!!! “Moderate” should be replaced by “Blue Dog Democrat” everywhere that it’s used.
As for Obama finally deciding that the Blue Dogs are the obstructionist “bad guys?”
Good!!! ‘Bout frakin’ time!!!!
This is only an evolution if you believe the characterization of Obama’s position in the Washington Post by Congressional sources, which I do not.
Moderator: The comment counts on the LATEST DIARIES panel (to the right) seem to be stuck. For example, this diary shows “0 comments”, even after I do a refresh on the browser.
Oops! My error. Somehow, one of my security plugins was blocking the updating.
speaking about how to whip the vote;
drifty schools the prez