US Election: It's the Most Vicious Election Campaign Ever - and Here's Why (Poor Obambi)

The Observer ^ | Sunday, August 31, 2008 | Paul Harris

[kristinn]

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Now that machine is focused with laser-like intensity on Obama. The clamour is loud and shrill: Obama is vain, inexperienced, liberal and dangerous. It is backed by a clandestine chorus whispering that he has a secretive Islamic past and it uses racially loaded language. It is also only going to get louder. This week, as McCain and the Republicans gather for their party convention in the Minnesota city of St Paul, the noise will become deafening. It has one purpose - to keep the White House in Republican hands at all costs and against the odds.

The current mastermind of the Republican attack machine is known as the Bullet. He is Steve Schmidt, a protégé of Bush's guru, Karl Rove. Nicknamed for his results as much as his bald head, he made his name as commander of the war room that wiped out Democrat John Kerry in 2004. Brought in to shake things up in July, Schmidt imposed discipline on a disorganised campaign. He dissuaded McCain from his off-the-cuff chats with reporters, and honed the focus solely on making Obama unelectable.

Schmidt works on the principles of repeating simple messages loudly and often. Ads attack Obama as a 'celebrity' or a faux-messiah. By doing so they hope to turn Obama's greatest strength - his ability to inspire - into a fatal flaw. That is backed up by another line: that Obama is simply not fit to be president. NotReady08 is the name of a website set up by the campaign. The language can be harsh. 'We are in the hunt for the White House. Barack Obama is going to have to step up with more than a smart tongue, snappy words and a nice suit,' said Maryland Republican politician Michael Steele.

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[kristinn]

This article is a wonderful whinefest of boo-hooing about the mean conservatives and what they are doing to Barack "Chicago Rules" Obambi. I recommend reading the whole thing with some popcorn at the ready.

[elk]

I thought I noticed a difference in things in the McCain camp this summer — this explains it.

[TexasCajun]

Have you seen this yet?

Barack The Barbarian

[sionnsar]

When the count of blatant dishonesties and less than half-truths passed a half-dozen I lost interest in reading more.

I did get beyond the opening paragraph, so I might not have been paying close attention.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

Doesn't that far left lib rag (The Guardian) have anything better to focus on (like all of their own shortcomings in Jolly ol England) like their having succumbed to being a castrated Dhimmi country as opposed to sticking their nose in our politics?

That was rhetorical as the Guardian as well as most European media are as bad as our lame stream media as being in the tank for The Messiah and will do anything they can to insure his coronation next January.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Lee Atwater is up there looking down and he is proud! Schmidt has made a big and very noticeable difference.

[paudio]

But that is the key to the success of the Republican attack machine: the past does not exist. What matters is what works now.

Bwhahahaha... the author must have gotten all his materials from the American MSM... Did he even ask--let alone investigate-- Obama's past?

[Billthedrill]

Harris, you’re ignorant. McCain/Palin. Suck it up, buttercup.

[Tzimisce]

Cause Conservatives aren’t rolling over and handing it to Obama?

[Ronin]

Ha! This schoo hasn’t got the word, has he?

Since yesterday nobody on the Republican side is voting against Obama - We’re voting FOR Sarah! The sharpest, smartest, Mom in government! OK, there’s this guy McCain in the mix somewhere, but hey, she’ll keep him under control.

Obama? Obama-shama-yo-mamma? And this guy Biden? Hey, are you serious? The ears and hairplug duo might as well pack it in now.

They can run, but they’ll only lose tired and broke.

[FrdmLvr]

How come all Republican political strategizing is viewed as Machivellian by the liberal media, but considered brilliant when it’s Democrat strategizing?

[dforest]

Well, there you have it. The Democrats are all hapless victims.

The nutcase that wrote this piece must have run out of tinfoil befire he even finished.

[stboz]

Barack...boy....

Don't mess with a barracuda, you could lose a hand or more.

[RobinOfKingston]

The clamour is loud and shrill: Obama is vain, inexperienced, liberal and dangerous. It is backed by a clandestine chorus whispering that he has a secretive Islamic past and it uses racially loaded language.

Well, yeah. But, it's all true. If the man was a horse-thief I would expect that to be made known also.

[Jim Noble]

It's the most vicious election campaign ever

In the words of a great Chicagoan, Finley Peter Dunn: "Politics ain't beanbag."

Get over it, you little pussy.

[Signalman]

From the Article:
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Rush Limbaugh

A colossus of US conservatism, his radio show is heard by millions across the country. His rants espouse a deeply conservative point of view that believes global warming does not exist and terrorists lurk behind every corner. He frequently makes an issue of Barack Obama’s race -
but asked his listeners to back Obama in the Democratic race in what he called Operation Chaos as part of a strategy to keep the campaign as split as possible.
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So if the author is so completely wrong on something like this, how can I believe the rest of it.

[Navy Patriot]

It is also only going to get louder.

Sure is Paul, the truth has to be whispered only in Cuba.

[STE=Q]

“Barack Obama is going to have to step up with more than a smart tongue, snappy words and a nice suit,”

The morons don’t understand that all Obama IS:

is a smart tongue, snappy words and a nice suit!

STE=Q

[okie01]

It's the most vicious election campaign ever...

Well, then, that would explain this headline, just a few items downthread on the "Latest Posts" page...

Buckets of urine, slingshots, anti-bus weapons seized in raid on anti-RNC protesters

Yeah, I guess he's right.

[Popman]

That is only half-true. Democrats do launch attack ads and campaign negatively but no one does it like the Republican party. Under a succession of dark geniuses, the party has perfected the black art of negative campaigning. It has created the most effective attack machine in the Western world, with the sole purpose of destroying opponents and winning elections.

Cue the Darth Vader music