Posted on 09/09/2008 9:03:15 AM PDT by bobsunshine
YESTERDAY'S Gallup poll had John McCain ahead of Barack Obama by an astonishing 10 points among likely voters. A Washington Post poll had that lead at only two points, but clearly showed a McCain surge - especially among women. This wasn't what Democrats were expecting when they left Denver - yet they have nobody to blame but themselves.
Obama's toughest challenge has always been to connect with working-class swing voters. So attacking the poster child for small-town values, Sarah Palin, was a bad strategy.
No, Obama didn't engage in the mass sneering at Palin - but he did fall into the trap of disrespecting her. When McCain chose her, the Obama campaign's first response was to ridicule the size of her town. Then the candidate himself began referring to her as a "former mayor" when she is in fact a sitting governor.
When she retaliated (justifiably) by mocking his stint as a organizer, the Obama camp was clearly rattled. Obama himself actually began arguing about the importance of community organizing. His supporters amplified this cry - claiming Palin's attack was a racist slur and passing around e-mails titled "Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor."
Meanwhile, the rest of the country was probably wondering what being a community organizer has to do with being president.
Lured by the McCain camp, Obama supporters engaged in an argument about who had more overall experience - the top of the Democratic ticket or the bottom of the GOP ticket. This diminished Obama.
Meanwhile, the media lit up in all their cultural-elite splendor.
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He wasn't too much on (immoral) tax collectors, elite rich folks (who ignored the beggar at their gates), and (unrepentant) sinners and self-righteous Pharisees either.
I notice he DID like (working) fishermen, (righteous) tax collectors, and HONEST (Roman) soldiers.
Maybe he needs an Obama/Biden bumpersticker put on his mirror so that he is reminded daily he is running at the TOP of the ticket against McCain.
Dear liberals,
Please keep up the smears on Gov. Palin, its doing wonders for our poll numbers and donations.
Regards,
Your future President,
Sen. John S. McCain
Check out the new book on Obama:
This article just gets better after a second reading.
They are actually comparing Obama to Jesus?!
Rush tying one hand behind his back just to make it fair!
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Rush uses both hands! He ties HALF HIS BRAIN behind his back.
She is clearly far too intelligent to be a liberal, she will grow out of it.
Oops, you’re right, my bad. Brain fart, happens all the time now. It’s seems much farther from my brains to the my fingers on the keyboard now than it did 50 years ago. Of course it was typewriter then and it took more energy to make mistakes.
Thanks for catching that.
Obama blew it for sure, this round.
Palin is popular, GOP is not.
Why this prolife conservative, yours truly, think Obama will end up in the White House? Because the media shunt dark horse Ron Paul will announce his candidacy tomorrow, as an independent. That shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone, especially the powers that be.
Ron Paul will be the spoiler to the GOP just like Ralph Nader was to the DEMs. That’s why Obama will win, most unfortunately.
Things are just getting interesting.
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