per Mark Penn, former Clinton advisor and strategist:
“The Paris Hilton ad also bore a Republican political trademark — attacking a candidate’s strengths rather than the candidate’s weaknesses,” Penn wrote. The spot attempted to portray Obama’s leadership for change as something fluffy and useless. Obama did not immediately hit back on the air.”
I’m guessing that mark revrels in the dirt of politics and can’t comprehend that there might just possibly be a tiredness in AMerica of the negative campaigning. WHat he instaed proposes is that the very thing that makes Obama so compelling, his general civility on campaigning is a weakness. According to Penn, one should never speak of their own positions, just attack the other candidate in unclear, nonspecific ways that bear no relationship to reality.
According to Penn, diversity is a bad thing, American thinking means thinking in the same stilted politics of the past, and any diversion therefrom is wrong. Maybe Penn should work for the republicans, he’s right at home in their dirt pile.
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