I’m of two minds about your basic point about the relative importance of the agenda of CAC vs the terrorist connection:
1. On the one hand, the failure of CAC to accomplish any measurable improvements and the radical agenda is a strong arguing point about Obama’s only real executive experience. (I completely discount the law review experience. I was an editor of a major law review and, while it isn’t trivial, it’s toy stuff compared to running a business or a country. It’s like asking for a PhD based on a Jr. High School Science fair project.)
However, this issue is really really hard to get into a 30 second commercial. I don’t really see how we make this point coherently over the active opposition of the old media in the next sixty days.
2. The terrorist connection is easy to make and encapsulate into a 30 second commercial. The problem with this point is a lot of people will just think it’s over the top, regardless of truth. By over the top, I mean not credible that anyone could get as far as Obama if he had terrorist connnections. Now, his connection with Wright for 20 years lends some credibility to the argument. But it’s still hard to make in a manner that doesn’t seem over the top. So it seems to me that this argument has to be pitched as a judgment question and tied in with the Wright issue.
Frankly, I think BO is quite sympathetic with terrorist goals, if not their methods. He is by far the most radical person ever to run for presdent on a major ticket, imho. But I don’t think the American public is ready to believe that about a presidential candidate.
But time is running out. We have to frame this issue one way or t’other in the next sixty days. And then we have to hit hard because it has died completely after a brief 527 flurry. It’s BO, 1, Good Guys 0 on this issue so far.
Oh by the way Penny is Obama's co-chair.
( cousin sued over mismangement goverment found tax fraud.) where is the press? Ithttp://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/1124/142a_print.htmls seem they love hidimng money overseas.