JOHN DICKINSON WHO IS THE POLITICAL NEWS DIRECTOR FOR CBS NEWS HAS GIVEN SOME ASTOUNDING POLITICAL ADVICE TO PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR HIS SECOND TERM. IN AN ARTICLE FOR SLATE.COM HE WRITES THE FOLLOWING REGARDING THE REPUBLICANS
“Obama’s only remaining option is to pulverize. Whether he succeeds in passing legislation or not, given his ambitions, his goal should be to delegitimize his opponents. Through a series of clarifying fights over controversial issues, he can force Republicans to either side with their coalition's most extreme elements or cause a rift in the party that will leave it, at least temporarily, in disarray.”
HE FURTHER STATES :
"That fight will be loud and in the open—and in the short term unproductive. The president can stir up these fights by poking the fear among Republicans that the party is becoming defined by its most extreme elements, which will in turn provoke fear among the most faithful conservatives that weak-willed conservatives are bending to the popular mood.”
THIS FROM THE NETWORK WHO ONCE GAVE US EDWARD R. MURROW, DOUGLAS EDWARDS AND ERIC SEVARIDE. PERHAPS HOWEVER WE SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED SINCE DICKINSONS BOSS LES MOONVES, SAID ONLY LAST YEAR AT AN OBAMA FUNDRAISER "ultimately journalism has changed … partisanship is very much a part of journalism now."
THIS FROM THE NETWORK WHO ONCE GAVE US EDWARD R. MURROW, DOUGLAS EDWARDS AND ERIC SEVARIDE. PERHAPS HOWEVER WE SHOULD NOT BE SURPRISED SINCE DICKINSONS BOSS LES MOONVES, SAID ONLY LAST YEAR AT AN OBAMA FUNDRAISER "ultimately journalism has changed … partisanship is very much a part of journalism now."