Barry Finegold, Democratic candidate for the 5th District congressional seat, supposedly has some top party operatives working on his campaign.
You wouldn’t know it from his latest press release, which was inane even by the lax standards of the genre.
In his statement titled “Eight Bold Steps to Move Our Country Forward” Finegold says,
“I’m not running to play politics as usual, but to focus on the real issues our communities and our country face. These eight bold steps are examples of the vision I have for the 5th District and for this country to do just that.”
Here are Finegold’s Eight Bold Steps:
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1. End the War in Iraq
2. Real Health Care Reform
3. Fight Global Warming
4. Earn College Tuition in Return for National Service
5. Help the Middle Class Do More than Just Get By
6. Care for Our Seniors
7. Care for Our Veterans
8. Bold Ideas, New Solutions
Did I mention these are “bold” steps?
These aren’t bold ideas. They’re barely ideas at all — just recitation of Democratic boilerplate.
Oh, Finegold wants to care for our seniors and veterans? Does he mean to imply his opponents want to beat them senseless with cudgels?
He wants to “fight global warming”? How and at what cost? He wants “real health care reform”? Is he talking about free market reforms or government control?
The last item reads like a David Letterman Top 10 list: And the No. 8 Bold Step from Barry Finegold … Bold Ideas.
This stuff is so nebulous it doesn’t even qualify as fog.
If this is the best “vision” Finegold has to offer, his campaign is in deep trouble.
