Posted on 05/20/2008 10:54:48 AM PDT by Winged Hussar
General Sun Tzu wrote 2500 years ago that if an opponent is oversensitive (e.g. to personal insults) you can goad and enrage him into doing something stupid. The Art of War cites a case in which a general sent his opponent a full chamber pot instead of the customary gift. The opponent let his temper get the better of him, and allowed his rage instead of his judgment to guide his decisions. The results were predictable. It seems like the way to stop Obama is to focus more attacks on Michelle Obama, as shown by the following.
If they [Republicans] think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful, because I find unacceptable the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family.–Barack Obama
Michelle Obama is an issue in this campaign just as Hillary Clinton’s spouse is an issue. Some Democrats are attacking Cindy McCain just for being a multimillionaire, while Elizabeth Edwards (whose personal character makes her more suitable for public office than her husband) was a positive asset for John Edwards’ campaign. Anyone who participates materially in a political campaign is a legitimate target for campaign-related criticism so, if they can’t take the heat, they should stay out of the kitchen. Michelle Obama can’t express contempt for our country–a contempt that Barack Obama shares as shown by his refusal to respect our National Anthem–by saying she has never been proud of the United States until her husband ran for President, and then expect nothing to be said about it. She can’t write a senior thesis that reinforces a very comprehensive picture of Barack Hussein Obama as a Black Nationalist and very possibly a racist, and then expect it not to become an issue.
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I second you all the way.
. . . at least, it's always worked for ME!
Mccain needs to use God Bless America as a campaign slogan. It is positive and reminds everyone who hears it every time they hear it of where they heard the opposite.
Bet he doesn't, though.
Stanley Kurtz, on NRO has an excellent article on Obama and the Black Liberation Theology. I think that Obama’s relationship to Wright is more important than his relationship to his wife.
This is from the first article that Kurtz did on Wright and BLT for the Ethics and Public Policy center:
The black intellectual’s goal, says Cone, is to “aid in the destruction of America as he knows it.” Such destruction requires both black anger and white guilt. The black-power theologian’s goal is to tell the story of American oppression so powerfully and precisely that white men will “tremble, curse, and go mad, because they will be drenched with the filth of their evil.” In the preface to his 1970 book, A Black Theology of Liberation, Wright wrote: “There will be no peace in America until whites begin to hate their whiteness, asking from the depths of their being: ‘How can we become black?’”
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Imagine if B Hussein O-wah-wah picks John Edwards as his running mate.
Ladies and gentlemen - get ready for Michelle 'Aunt Esther' Obama, and Lizzy 'unapologetic rich-bitch' Edwards - woohoo!
:-)
Mrs. McCain also said her husband never flinched when, from 1989 to 1992, she became addicted to painkillers after undergoing two spinal surgeries. The addiction eventually led her to steal pills from her own American Voluntary Medical Team.Druggie trophy wife who stole medicine from the sick... nope, Jonny ain't gonna go there, or allow others to do so on his behalf.
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