Swift-Boating

September 9th, 2009 7: 45 pm ET touchy area ... we allow "Swift-Boating", but not "documentaries"?

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But there's a striking contrast between the ambition of the Jobs With Justice goals, echoed by a call Thursday by 300 progressive economists for job-creating spending over deficit cutting, and the grim political reality in Washington in which "stimulus" has become a dirty word thanks to conservative Swift-Boating that Democrats responded to too late.

Art Levine: As Poverty Rate Jumps, Jobs With Justice, PDA Highlight Jobs Emergency in 100 Cities 2010

But there's a striking contrast between the ambition of the Jobs With Justice goals, echoed by a call Thursday by 300 progressive economists for job-creating spending over deficit cutting, and the grim political reality in Washington in which "stimulus" has become a dirty word thanks to conservative Swift-Boating that Democrats responded to too late.

Art Levine: As Poverty Rate Jumps, Jobs With Justice, PDA Highlight Jobs Emergency in 100 Cities 2010

But there's a striking contrast between the ambition of the Jobs With Justice goals, echoed by a call Thursday by 300 progressive economists for job-creating spending over deficit cutting, and the grim political reality in Washington in which "stimulus" has become a dirty word thanks to conservative Swift-Boating that Democrats responded to too late.

Art Levine: As Poverty Rate Jumps, Jobs With Justice, PDA Highlight Jobs Emergency in 100 Cities 2010

But there's a striking contrast between the ambition of the Jobs With Justice goals, echoed by a call Thursday by 300 progressive economists for job-creating spending over deficit cutting, and the grim political reality in Washington in which "stimulus" has become a dirty word thanks to conservative Swift-Boating that Democrats responded to too late.

Art Levine: As Poverty Rate Jumps, Jobs With Justice, PDA Highlight Jobs Emergency in 100 Cities 2010

But there's a striking contrast between the ambition of the Jobs With Justice goals, echoed by a call Thursday by 300 progressive economists for job-creating spending over deficit cutting, and the grim political reality in Washington in which "stimulus" has become a dirty word thanks to conservative Swift-Boating that Democrats responded to too late.

Art Levine: As Poverty Rate Jumps, Jobs With Justice, PDA Highlight Jobs Emergency in 100 Cities 2010

But there's a striking contrast between the ambition of the Jobs With Justice goals, echoed by a call Thursday by 300 progressive economists for job-creating spending over deficit cutting, and the grim political reality in Washington in which "stimulus" has become a dirty word thanks to conservative Swift-Boating that Democrats responded to too late.

Art Levine: As Poverty Rate Jumps, Jobs With Justice, PDA Highlight Jobs Emergency in 100 Cities 2010

As we noted below, the Swift-Boating group airing the initial Ayers spot, the American Issues Project, has made good on its vow to spend nearly $3 million to run the spot.

Obama Response Ad Ties Ayers Swift-Boating Spot Directly To McCain 2009

Here's video of the ad we reported on below that the Obama campaign is running in Ohio responding to the earlier Swift-Boating spot tying Obama to former Weatherman Bill Ayers ...

Obama Response Ad Ties Ayers Swift-Boating Spot Directly To McCain 2009

Looks to me like Swift-Boating isn't going to be necessary this election -- the Democrats who hate Hillary are doing the Republicans job for them by making such huge deals over issues like these.

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