inthesetimes.com — Great article on the benefits of Obama's mantra to end the name-calling and accusatory style of politics that the Left has adopted to respond to the Right. Before our beloved Left goes ballistic, note this is from In These Times - a Left blog.
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tcp7Jul 14, 2008
FTA: "When we use demeaning or nasty rhetoric to attack our political adversaries, we're much more likely to turn off voters than win them over. In his fine book, Stand up Straight! How Progressives Can Win, Robert Creamer offers this piece of advice: "It's good to be tough. It's bad to be mean."Unless the American left can make a much cleaner break with this style of politics than we have up until now, we will never succeed in building the kind of public support that will be needed in order to enact a left-wing agenda in the years and decades to come. Barack Obama has articulated the need to avoid demonizing adversaries and oversimplifying arguments better than anyone else in recent memory. The long-range prospects of the American left may well hinge upon whether we ignore or heed Obama's advice."
tcbishop12Jul 14, 2008
Amen.