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[montana500]

• CBS fires four staffers after memo probe
• Character issue puts Dems on the defensive




http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=6&u=/usatoday/20050110/ts_usatoday/characterissueputsdemsonthedefensive

Imagine a Democratic presidential candidate and his allies assailing the character of the Republican nominee in ads and speeches every day for eight months.

Having trouble? That's because Democrats generally don't have the stomach or the discipline to do it. Often they don't even effectively fight back when under attack themselves.


But with George W. Bush's second inauguration next week, Democrats are pondering their choices in a Feb. 12 election for party chairman and rethinking what might be called their character problem.



The GOP owns the radio dial, the tv stations, and they are CONTROLLING EVERYTHING people. EVERYTHING. We will never win another race as long as this continues.

[Cocoa]

1. If Gingrich is the repub nominee

I could easily see the dems running on character.

Or Giuliani, or Jeb.

[montana500]

2. so thats a news story?

thta s a FREAKING NEWS STORY?

Dont you folks see what is going on here? a lthis talk about dnc chair, bla bl a bla, "we shold do this, we should say this" means SHIT.

it means NOTHING. The media is borked people. Too few huge corporations own too many stations both radio and tv, and they are all right wing.

[scarlett1]

3. This Good USA Today story

yahoo link sends the reader.
Ickes has a good quote:

Democrats "as a group are uneasy" about attacking and defending on character, says Harold Ickes, a former Clinton aide who heads the Media Fund, a political ad organization. "But they damn well better get the stomach," he adds, because "we've seen way too many of our candidates taken down on issues of character."

[montana500]

4. oh my god

""Democrats "as a group are uneasy" about attacking and defending on character, says Harold Ickes, a former Clinton aide who heads the Media Fund, a political ad organization. "But they damn well better get the stomach," he adds, because "we've seen way too many of our candidates taken down on issues of character""


DUH!!!!

Because the republicans own every single media outlet in the counrty!@!! LOL!!!!!

defending your character is IMPOSSIBLe when you have no platform on which to defend it. We dont have the 24/7talking point megaphone that the GOP does with the all right wing stations on thousand sof stations across the country. Jesus doesnt anyone get it? From the farm worker to the mechanic in Withcita Kansas - al lthey hear al lday al lweek while they work and play is anti-dem messages repeated 24/7 by all right wing hosts. The ENTIRE RADIO DIAL is fucking owned by right wing corporations that hoist nothing but right wing hosts. DOESNT ANYONE GET WHAT IS GOING ON HERE???

Thanks bIll clinton for the 1996 media ownership weaking. You have sealed the fate of the dem party.

[Bampa]

5. Character?

Look at the character of the puke right wing Shrub puke four & now plus years of lies and puke control. Did I say puke?