Posted on 07/07/2008 8:37:18 PM PDT by yoe
The campaign of 2008 started on July 1 when Obama launched his first national advertising buy of the season.
How McCain responds and whether or not he does, will have a big impact in determining whether Obama can solidify or expand his current lead in the polls. As always, the media fails to cover the significant events of the campaign but this is one of the most critical.
The Obama ad, which introduces him as someone who worked his way through college, fights for American jobs, and battles for healthcare also seeks to move him to the center by taking credit for welfare reform in Illinois which, the ad proclaims, reduced the rolls by 80 percent.
But there's one problem Obama opposed the 1996 welfare reform act at the time. The Illinois law for which he takes credit was merely the local implementing law the state was required to pass, and it did, almost unanimously. Obama's implication, that he backed "moving people from welfare to work," is just not true.
With Obama running the ad in all the swing states (Alaska, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Virginia), this gross usurpation of credit affords the McCain campaign an incredible opportunity for rebuttal.
For the past two weeks, Obama has moved quickly toward the center. He has reversed his previous positions for gun control, against using faith based institutions to deliver public services, against immunity for tele-communications companies that turn records over to the government in terror investigations, for raising Social Security taxes, for imposing the Fairness Doctrine on talk radio, and a host of other issues.
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If you believe in the Tooth Fairy you will believe in these polls......seems Obama is no different than the Clintons...fast, smooth mendacious talkers.
Does Obama even have a record?
Has McCain used this opening to pound him...???
This is a serious question. If he has great...if not why not?
he is distorted. he is the magic negro. he can do anything, sarc
But the truth is there, and it is coming out all over.
He JUST might be thowing the election... I’m dead serious... see my tagline
Obama supporters drove this guy to close his web site
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Posted on Monday, July 07, 2008 10:57:45 PM by ncfool
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042198/posts
But about McCain, I fear he may be in over his head - not over experience but rather in his lack of ability to project an image to which voters will warm up. Not to mention his seeming lack of will to fight, shrugging off the disgraceful attack by he who will not be VP, Wesley Clark.
Perhaps he should run on the one virtue that it seems will get him most of his votes - he is way less bad than the alternative.
Maybe we should have a slogan contest to play on that strength.
I've heard he has some parking & speeding tickets...
“Does Obama even have a record?”
He’s building one, every day (a bad one).
So she’s Dick Morris’ wife, and she looks tough”
she probably had to be - major infidelity/hooker scandal some years ago she had to go through. I enjoy watching DM and respect his intellect and political acumen, but he’s had his “problems”.
“Perhaps he should run on the one virtue that it seems will get him most of his votes - he is way less bad than the alternative.”
We thinking people know that, of course - question is, are there enough of us? I fear the masses love a “rock star”. Why, they don’t really know, they can’t say and they don’t care. They just do and that’s who’ll they’ll vote for.
“Distort” is such a mild word. Tell it like it is-—big, fat LIES.
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