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Obama Campaign Plans to Hit At McCain's Age
US News ^ | April 11, 2008

Posted on 04/11/2008 3:40:11 PM PDT by Captain Pike

As they map out a strategy against Republican presidential candidate John McCain, Barack Obama and his advisers plan to emphasize big themes and generational contrasts.

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More broadly, Obama will be using the theme of "yesterday versus tomorrow," with McCain billed as the candidate of the past and Obama as the candidate of the future. This would also bring the age issue into the campaign. McCain would be the oldest person ever sworn in as president, at 72, and many Americans have expressed concern to pollsters that the Arizona senator is past his prime.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; agism; blameamerica; blueturban; dncstrategy; election; issues; liberals; mccain; muslim; obama; racist
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Obama's handlers probably are'nt old enough to remember Reagan's quip about age against Mondale in the second debate of '84.

Reagan: "I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience,"

Video at PBS.

1 posted on 04/11/2008 3:40:11 PM PDT by Captain Pike
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To: Captain Pike

You mean, Obama will resort to age discrimination,...


2 posted on 04/11/2008 3:47:11 PM PDT by Need4Truth
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To: Captain Pike

They’d better not get McCain pissed off. If he so chooses he can utterly destroy Obama in any debate over the Wright connection. (If he so chooses)


3 posted on 04/11/2008 3:47:36 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Captain Pike

Obambi is a putz. He has served a whopping two years in the Senate and done jack squat. Obambi, get your cookies and sippy cup and let the adults handle things.


4 posted on 04/11/2008 3:48:17 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Captain Pike

With age comes wisdom, patience, knowledge and in Mccains case EXPERIENCE!
Obama reminds me of a kid in college, he wants to save the world, he has all the answers, wet behind the ears, and
NO EXPERIENCE!


5 posted on 04/11/2008 3:50:52 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (I'd rather be hunting with dick than driving with Ted)
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To: Captain Pike

The Dems have already started, somewhat.

Just this morning on Fox&Friends, one of the commentators made reference to McCain having ‘memory’ problems as he was unable to distinguish al-Qaeda and Sunnis and Shi’ites.

By fall, they will be vocally proclaiming the GOP as the Grand OLD Party.


6 posted on 04/11/2008 3:51:04 PM PDT by TomGuy
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...and Obama as the candidate of the glorious proletriat revolutionary future, comrades!

There, I fixed it.
7 posted on 04/11/2008 3:51:52 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Captain Pike
They will start with the age thing , so that whenever he misspeaks the press can call it the blatherings of an old man . The next step will be outcries for his medical reports and finally , leaking cancer rumors. Get used to it , it will be unending .
8 posted on 04/11/2008 3:52:09 PM PDT by fantom
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To: Captain Pike

Reagan had the style to pull off making that kind of remark.

McCain doesn’t.


9 posted on 04/11/2008 3:52:33 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Captain Pike
Experience trumps age -

Patriotism trumps age

Service trumps age

ANYTHING trumps obamamama

10 posted on 04/11/2008 3:52:45 PM PDT by maine-iac7 ("...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time" LINCOLN)
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To: Army Air Corps
proletriat - proletariat
11 posted on 04/11/2008 3:52:52 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: TomGuy
McCain has ZERO style, the only thing he has going for him is rage. (that's the only think I like about him)

And if it is directed in the direction of the UnAmerican Dems and the Islamic cults, instead of us, it will have to do.

12 posted on 04/11/2008 3:55:04 PM PDT by roses of sharon ( (Who will be McCain's maverick?))
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To: Need4Truth

I think it is fair. It’s the same thing when Obama says we need change from what we’ve had meaning bush, clintin, bush and the one who wants to be President . It means he wants to move on. Everyone is too touchy about McCain’s age. So what about his age. No one can predict the future. I would ignore it all if I were McCain but...I DO think it is fair and can’t fault Obama for it.


13 posted on 04/11/2008 3:55:42 PM PDT by cubreporter
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Bubba Clinton, was saying today, when dredging up his wife’s Bosina lie, that she was past 60 and was sometimes forgetful.......
14 posted on 04/11/2008 3:55:45 PM PDT by Coldwater Creek
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To: TomGuy
Exactly.

McCain's biggest problem might be his lack of good character. Once the story of his adultery and his extreme lying, for example, get wider exposure, it will make him look bad.

15 posted on 04/11/2008 3:57:07 PM PDT by Dante3
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More broadly, Obama will be using the theme of "yesterday versus tomorrow," with McCain billed as the candidate of the past and Obama as the candidate of the future.

Now Obama is insulting everybody old enough to remember when John F. Kennedy was shot.

16 posted on 04/11/2008 3:58:28 PM PDT by Polybius
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O’Bama is not old enough to remember that. His campaign was domed after what he said about small town Pennsylvania but now it is double domed.


17 posted on 04/11/2008 3:59:13 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Law of the Excluded Middle)
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To: Captain Pike

Last I checked, McKennedy - er McCain at least wasn’t drugged out or had any serious disease. Let’s see - OLD, or SICK. Read more below:

From http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/04/the-drug-abuse.html

“...In his riveting volume In Sickness and In Power, former Foreign Secretary and medic David Owen reviews the health and medication of leaders over the last century. The chapter on Kennedy is jaw-dropping.

Owen starts by convincingly asserting that Kennedy was much sicker than is commonly appreciated and certainly much sicker than was appreciated at the time. His Addison’s disease was very debilitating and needed constant attention....”


18 posted on 04/11/2008 4:00:53 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Army Air Corps
Obambi is a putz. He has served a whopping two years in the Senate and done jack squat.

But the man that impregnated his mother before leaving her two years later was black.

In Democrat circles, where you are judged by the color of your skin, not on your accomplishments or the content of your character, that trumps everything else as long as you are "articulate and clean".

19 posted on 04/11/2008 4:04:04 PM PDT by Polybius
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...many Americans have expressed concern to pollsters that the Arizona senator is past his prime.

You know, I heard Luciano Pavarotti live, twice, in small opera houses. He was off his game both times, sweating and nervous (once he was singing for President Reagan at Ford's Theater in DC), and off the beat of the music. But even at his worst, he was better than any other tenor, then and now.

I'll take any Republican past his prime over either of the Democrat contenders in this election.

20 posted on 04/11/2008 4:04:21 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (The best argument against democracy is a 5-minute conversation with the average voter.—WChurchill)
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