ANGER MANAGEMENT
On ABC's “This Week", Ken Mehlman, Chairman of the Republican National Committee
took after Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Since the Senator is a frontrunner for her party's nomination for President in 2008, the Republicans have been off to an early start in trying to tear her down.
Referring to Clinton’s remark that Congress now seems to be run as a plantation, Mr. Mehlman said that the Senator seems to have a lot of anger. He then pointed out that historically Americans don't elect angry people. Apparently, he cannot remember Lyndon Johnson and a number of other presidents.
Some have opined that this comment singles Senator Clinton out since she is a woman and tries to cast her as a shrill woman. However, such Republican attacks have been gender neutral. During the 2000 Bush campaign one of the major themes in attacking Senator John McCain was that he had a tendency to rise to anger.
But why shouldn't a candidate, and all of us, be angry? Look at what we have to be angry about: runaway deficits, wanton tax cutting, ill-advised and poorly executed
war, invasion of privacy, misleading information or falsehoods about WMD, global warming, and budget issues. Despite the clever trumpeting of the terrorism issue by Karl Rove and President Bush, it is completely mystifying that the American people
did not reject Bush in 2004.
I suggest that the slogan for each Democratic candidate in 2006 and 2008 should be that "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore"
On ABC's “This Week", Ken Mehlman, Chairman of the Republican National Committee
took after Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Since the Senator is a frontrunner for her party's nomination for President in 2008, the Republicans have been off to an early start in trying to tear her down.
Referring to Clinton’s remark that Congress now seems to be run as a plantation, Mr. Mehlman said that the Senator seems to have a lot of anger. He then pointed out that historically Americans don't elect angry people. Apparently, he cannot remember Lyndon Johnson and a number of other presidents.
Some have opined that this comment singles Senator Clinton out since she is a woman and tries to cast her as a shrill woman. However, such Republican attacks have been gender neutral. During the 2000 Bush campaign one of the major themes in attacking Senator John McCain was that he had a tendency to rise to anger.
But why shouldn't a candidate, and all of us, be angry? Look at what we have to be angry about: runaway deficits, wanton tax cutting, ill-advised and poorly executed
war, invasion of privacy, misleading information or falsehoods about WMD, global warming, and budget issues. Despite the clever trumpeting of the terrorism issue by Karl Rove and President Bush, it is completely mystifying that the American people
did not reject Bush in 2004.
I suggest that the slogan for each Democratic candidate in 2006 and 2008 should be that "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore"
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