DeLay’s quote is that Senator Obama is “… a very smart [Marxist] — he doesn’t let anyone know it.”
It’s useless to refute this attack by point to Obama’s declared positions, since DeLay’s claim is not that Obama is openly a Marxist but that he’s ‘secretly’ a Marxist. You would need to borrow DeLay’s mind-reading crystal ball to provide a refutation of this claim.
“He’s a Marxist but a very smart one — he doesn’t let anyone know it,”
Uh, couldn’t you use those words to say pretty much anything about anybody?
“That DeLay; he’s a Martian but a very smart one - he doesn’t let anyone know it”.
If he doesn’t let anyone know it how the hell does he know it? And indeed if he’s able to get away with not letting people know it, presumably the way he works is against (or at least not with) a Marxist agenda?
Tom “The Hummer” DeLay. Grimly and shrilly trying to be relevent. Nobody cares what you think, Tom. Karma’s a bitch, huh, Tom.
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Hang down your head, Tom De-lay
Hang down your head and cry
Hang down your head, Tom De-lay
Poor boy, nobody returns your calls…*
Correct. Fortunately, that means this dumb accusation will only be listened to by people who are prone to believing this crap and wouldn’t have voted for Obama anyway. They say this stuff about Clinton, too. I wish they would tell me where their secret crystal ball is, because some of them acknowledge “knowing” she’s a socialist even though she has never actually said or done anything that qualifies as socialist.
"Former Republican House Leader Tom DeLay was arrested last night on charges of disorderly conduct in an undercover sting operation. According to police, DeLay approached an officer in a public restroom and repeatedly made inappropriate physical contact, forcibly attempting to tuck a copy of *The Communist Manifesto * into the officer’s belt while exhorting him to ‘cast off the shackles of capitalist oppression and join the glorious international workers’ struggle.’
"DeLay has denied the charge, claiming that his actions were misinterpreted and had been provoked by fear of the officer’s repressive petty-bourgeois demeanor. He maintains that he was merely trolling for some innocent fisting action, citing his well-known Capitol Hill nickname ‘The Hammer’ as evidence.
“Meanwhile, former Congressional pages continue to step forward with accusations that DeLay frequently contacted them online to indoctrinate them with his international proletarian ideology…”
Well, Godzilla is a lizard. It’s all about bracketing the target. You establish that he’s an asshole, and now we can start discussion on what kind of asshole he is.