About this episode

The episode discusses the Republican party's strategies during the pivotal year of 2008 and their attempts to undermine Barack Obama.

Episode 993 of The Professional Left finally arrives at the pivotal year of 2008 — the moment the Republican party began eating itself alive — and traces exactly how a party that had just driven the country into a ditch decided that the best response was to sabotage the guy trying to pull it out. Driftglass and Blue Gal walk through the deliberate, coordinated Republican strategy to destroy Barack Obama before he even got started, complete with the death panels lie, the "government takeover" ...

People in this episode

Hosts: Driftglass, Blue Gal

Topics covered

• Republican party
• 2008 election
• political strategy
• Barack Obama
• government
• commentary

Keywords

• Republican party
• 2008
• Barack Obama
• political sabotage
• death panels
• government takeover

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Organizations: Republican party

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