SMRs and AMRs

Saturday, May 19, 2012

In politics, money can buy you anything

‘Metrosexual Black Abe Lincoln’

By CHARLES M. BLOW, NYT

We knew this day would come.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that a Republican “super PAC” was mulling over a plan to resurrect President Obama’s former pastor and spiritual adviser, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., as a weapon against the president.

The proposal said that it would do what John McCain, whom it labels “a crusty old politician” (Ouch!), would not do in 2008.

It called for using Wright to “increase the unease” and “inflame the questions” among independents using the episode “that’s never been properly exploited.” How I love the use of sinister verbs.

(More here.)

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