--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" <jpgillam@> > wrote: > > > > I heard the documentary's director interviewed on the radio last > > weekend. Here are the blurb, URL and transcript: > > > > "The Dirty South > > > > "Lee Atwater became one of the most complicated and successful > > Republican political operatives in history by employing a triple > > threat; spin when you can, change the subject when you can't and if > > all else fails mine the voters' resentment, and fear, usually of > > blacks. Stefan Forbes, director of Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater > Story, > > explains the dark legacy of Atwater's Southern strategy." > > [snip] > > In light of the dirty tricks pulled on the Clintons during the > primaries (Bill called "racist" etc,) I'm wondering whether they > would think Atwater was more or less slimy than Obama was... > > Oh, also what G. Ferraro would think... > >From my understanding Mr.Atwater was one of Nixon's buddies... And, his philosophical tactics of destroying your opponent, was adopted by Karl Rove and friends. I don't see any of these tactics used by the Obama campaign.
Rather, it was the Clinton campaign used words like 'Fairy tale'... He's just like Jesse Jackson... Is he ready to lead(do we want a black leader). A black man can't win, said by Hillary campaigner, Gov. Ed Rendell. Hillary, when asked if Barack was a Muslim, 'not to my knowledge', she responded. Hillary said, 'You hang around with Chicago slum lords'(your just a ghetto kind of guy). Mine the fear of blacks, and appeal to: 'The white working people'... She never found her 'Joe the Plumber' to represent the 'white working guy', but nonetheless, she was using the same technique as you mention above. So, it was Clinton's campaign that adopted these stategies; I wasn't aware of any of these darker techniques were used by the Obama campaign. R.G.
