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.
(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...
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.
You mean, Obama will resort to age discrimination,...
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)
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.
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!
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.
Reagan had the style to pull off making that kind of remark.
McCain doesn’t.
Patriotism trumps age
Service trumps age
ANYTHING trumps obamamama
And if it is directed in the direction of the UnAmerican Dems and the Islamic cults, instead of us, it will have to do.
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.
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.
Now Obama is insulting everybody old enough to remember when John F. Kennedy was shot.
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.
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....”
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".
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.
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