As I look at what happened this week, I've always believed in politics that the counterpunch is more effective than the punch. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The website counterpunch is a little far left for my taste. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It is sad, very sad to watch a great champion being beaten in a one-sided fight where he cannot offer any meaningful counterpunch, which is what boxing is all about.
| Reply | Permalink why do you have a handwring-fest every time Obama hits back at the Clintons, but are silent when Clinton disparages Obama? of course this was meant to draw attention to the comments themselves as much as the messenger, a retired General supporting Obama. of course the counterpunch was a bit over the top, but that's to get it (and thus the original comment) recognition, and it certainly isn't more over the top than either the original statement or any of a half dozen Clinton/Clintonista comments over the past few days. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Osama Obama's "counterpunch" will be a farrago of "ummms" and outright lies. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Conservatives have a different cultural habit, a kind of counterpunch to progressives (somewhat less so to libertarians): ‘you think you’re so smart, but you’re not.’ ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Spaniard had to counterpunch much of the time against his elegant foe's clever leads and feints but ultimately his blows were harder and, in the final round, too persistent in a struggle that dragged every fine quality from rivals of contrasting styles and temperaments. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Arguably, this white identity politics helped swing the 2000 and 2004 elections, serving as the powerful counterpunch to urban white liberals, and the McCain-Palin campaign relied on it almost to the point of absurdity (as when a McCain surrogate dismissed Northern Virginia as somehow not part of “the real Virginia”) as a bulwark against the threatening multiculturalism of Barack Obama. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But for anybody in crisis mode looking to put together an instant PR counterpunch, Rodriguez's tango with ESPN Monday was textbook. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In going over to the site of the baltimorechronicle which I had never heard of before, it is quite obvious that it is just another far left wing mouthpiece, much like counterpunch which just parrots the type of lying crap that one might read on its right wing counterparts stormfront and rense. ❋ Unknown (2009)
But the GOP can easily counterpunch, noting the leading role that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises, had in bringing about the financial crisis. ❋ Karl Rove (2011)
Other political analysts have probed why the Clintons 'defenders didn't counterpunch this book like the old days, why they didn't try to polish the Clinton legacy one last time. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Loomis Corp. tried to buy out DHL early on, threatening to drive it under using by using Loomis's contacts with federal aviation officials "We've done it before," an executive explained, but Hillblom simply ignored shut-down orders from the government until he could counterpunch. ❋ Wayne Curtis (2012)
She offered a counterpunch of her own in noting the ages of some of the world's finest fighters: Manny Pacquiao (32), Floyd Mayweather Jr. (34) and the Klitschkos (Wladimir, 35, and Vitali, 40). ❋ Ben Cohen (2011)
Indian people think America is some kinda god own land where everything is perfect and blame sadly on their own shortcomings, we have lost our integrity and respect, people should read sites like anti-war. com, globalresearch. ca and counterpunch. com, watch bill maher real time to see the true color of American life. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Democrats had hoped a clear victory would deliver a powerful counterpunch to Republican Tea Party backers in Congress who have pushed for big spending cuts that could roll back health and retirement benefits for seniors. ❋ Unknown (2011)
