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Matalin and Penn Are the Worst of the New Breed of Political Consultants

June 02, 2008 11:24 AM ET | John Mashek | Permanent Link | Print

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George Allen

God: Please give Allen more opportunities to "set the record straight" in Virginia...

It's disgusting how much speculation there has been over Webb as a prospect for Obama's veep post. The squabbler has hardly been in office for a year and a half, yet the media is having a field day toyin' w/ the idea.

Father Day Reflection on Election Campaign 2008.

Father Day Reflection on Election Campaign 2008 :

Election 2008 is not a election but a decision for homecoming. Americans are on the crossroad of homecoming or a journey to the abyss. They are currently facing Great Depression II and the only conscious solution is to repeat what they had done in the last Depression and emerged as a much stronger country. In the 1930s Americans were smart enough not to elect a politician as president but to return home to their parents, FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, who had nurtured them back to health and wealth. Today, we are facing the same dilemma, should Americans elect a radical politician who has given them empty promises? Or, to return home to their parents, John and Hillary? The choice is really quite simple. Obama and Black supporters reminisced wrestlers whose matches are pre-arranged and play by hitting under the belt theatrics causing economic downturn just to win. So, stop watching American games. Obama's white supporters are insulting their own race as incompetent and incapable of managing their own country . Whether Obama will be elected his "super delegates", who endorsed at other's expense, must be sentenced to live in Black neighborhoods for more than four years to find out what they are really like. The democratic governor of Oklahoma who had just endorsed Obama must be executed for causing their supernatural tornadoes. The communication media of the U. S. are circus clowns not worth commenting on because they have never given any honest election comments. American voters in general are "blind" to good judgement. Hillary Clinton, best American candidate in history, can be identified with a unspoiling mother who has wasted her own $10 million just to warn her stubborn and ignorance daughter not to date strangers in the street. John McCain who has shown the ability to set aside party differences for the common good, working relentless for the American by running on many elections and his decency has earned the trust of most Americans. Together as a team John and Hillary will carry Americans out of the current Great Depression. But will a good father send his children to early grave for a war that cannot be won? Obviously, our parents are much older and less handsome than us but they have the experience we rely on and care we need. Happy Father Day!

RIGHT AND LEFT

I FEAR THAT THE RIGHTISTS MAY GO SO FAR AS TO FALL OFF THE FAR RIGHT EDGE OF THEIR FLAT EARTH.

Mary Matalin

The evolution of your magazine from center right to outright far left is the reason that I cancelled my subscription after many years. It's odd that you didn't mention Mr. Axelrod and his minions in Mr. Obama's campaign. I don't think that the Atlanta Constitution and The Boston Globe service by the writer are exactly examples of fair and balanced news and commentary.

Shame on you.

Truth is better than "consultants"

The only "spin" needed for the presidential election is that sensible people can't find the integrity in McCain running on anti-abortion while he and his wife, Cindy, have sold billions of beers that loosened unwed people up to NEED abortions in the first place---and probably thousands or even tens of thousands of such cases, even teenagers . Billions of beers over 25 years.

One quibble

They aren't the "new breed" anymore. They are history with many fine and honerable people coming into their own in the political sphere. Keep an eye on some of the lower rank people in the Obama campaign. That is where the real power is going to be in the future. Anyone who considers Matalin & Penn, considers them losers.

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About the Capital View Blog

John MashekJohn W. Mashek covered politics in Washington for four decades with U.S. News & World Report, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Boston Globe. His primary beats were Congress, the White House, and national politics. He covered every presidential election from 1960 to 1996. He was a panelist in three televised presidential debates in 1984, 1988, and 1992.

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