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Obama Campaign Begins Counterattack
Washington Post ^ | September 13, 2008 | Jonathan Weisman

Posted on 09/13/2008 8:13:19 AM PDT by billorites

Sen. Barack Obama and his campaign launched a promised counterpunch against Sen. John McCain on Friday, portraying him as an aging, out-of-touch politician who would cater to "fat-cat" lobbyists and continue President Bush's economic policies.

With two new television advertisements, a campaign memo to supporters and a two-day trip through New Hampshire, Obama sought to regain his footing amid faltering poll numbers, a continuing assault by his Republican presidential rival and rising worries among Democrats about his campaign.

"They've been talking about lipstick and they've been talking about pigs and they've been talking about Paris and Britney," Obama told a boisterous crowd of 1,500 packed into a gym at a technical college here. "They will spend any amount of money and use any tactic out there in order to avoid talking about how we're going to move America forward to the future."

Attempting to shift the focus away from Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and to McCain, Obama quoted his opponent saying Thursday night that "it's easy for me to go to Washington and, frankly, be somewhat divorced from the day-to-day challenges people have."

"So from where he and George Bush sit, maybe they just can't see," the Democrat told supporters and some self-identified undecided voters earlier in the day in Dover. "Maybe they are just that out of touch. But you know the truth, and so do I. . . . We just can't afford four more years of what John McCain and George Bush consider progress."

If Democrats were expecting a dramatic change in words, tone or temperament, they did not get it. While McCain attacked him as a pampered, fading celebrity, a sexist and a desperate bully, Obama stuck to familiar themes linking the senator from Arizona to Bush and Washington lobbyists. < snip >

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: electionpresident; mccainpalin; nh2008; nobama08; obama; obamabiden
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1 posted on 09/13/2008 8:13:21 AM PDT by billorites
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Sen. Barack Obama and his campaign launched a promised counterpunch against Sen. John McCain on Friday, portraying him as an aging, out-of-touch politician who would cater to "fat-cat" lobbyists...

I thought he we referring to Biden.

2 posted on 09/13/2008 8:15:38 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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The sexist pig Obama is now attacking, a War Hero's disability to use a computer.. geeeze Osama.. err Obama what a vicious anti-American sexist pig you are.

3 posted on 09/13/2008 8:16:33 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Our Mamma beats your Obama)
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lol!! nice!!!!


4 posted on 09/13/2008 8:17:33 AM PDT by TrueFact (I'm voting for Sarah.)
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Yeah, ‘great’ attack job. Now they can spend two days explaining how they don’t know how to use Google after attacking McCain for his war wounds and his not being able to email easily because of his arms.


5 posted on 09/13/2008 8:17:39 AM PDT by txzman (Jer 23:29)
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One more thing to Obama’s smear control team, if you are reading this , can you do anything to help Obama control his lipstick smear?


6 posted on 09/13/2008 8:17:56 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Our Mamma beats your Obama)
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Obambi needs to pick out a shade of blue lipstick he likes!


7 posted on 09/13/2008 8:17:58 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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His counterattack is to go back to some old standby of linking him to Bush?

Really?

Yeah, this blimp is about to land in New Jersey.


8 posted on 09/13/2008 8:18:28 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (Stand Up For Chuck 2008!)
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If offending elderly people, and most other people that consider themselves computer illiterate, is their “counterattack”, then they are in huge trouble. That ad of theirs is a huge turnoff to anyone that watches it, with exception to far left kooks.


9 posted on 09/13/2008 8:18:33 AM PDT by KoRn (Barack Obama Must Be Stopped!!!)
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I can't wait for the next strategic initiative by the Obama campaign. It's like Christmas every day with these guys. What will it be?

During my administration kittens and puppies will be rounded up for a 'Feed the Homeless' program.

10 posted on 09/13/2008 8:18:59 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson (How do I change my tagline?)
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Another attack on the elderly....after a certain age, they aren’t worth anything. Bush’s economic policys? Exactly what don’t they like about them? Easy to say you don’t like them but what is it, exactly that they don’t like?


11 posted on 09/13/2008 8:19:02 AM PDT by RC2
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Idiots at Washpost are quoting the email ad, not realizing the gaff it is.

Stupid.


12 posted on 09/13/2008 8:19:23 AM PDT by Mrs.Z ("...you're a Democrat. You're expected to complain and offer no solutions." Denny Crane)
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Wow! I see what they mean. I was listening to nObama speak here and it sounds a lot different than he does here.

The sharpness can also be seen in these two speeches here (from last week) and here (from yesterday).

13 posted on 09/13/2008 8:19:29 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (OBAMA: He was a flop before he became a flipper.)
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Sen. Barack Obama and his campaign launched a promised counterpunch against Sen. John McCain on Friday, portraying him as an aging, out-of-touch politician

I wonder if Obama's camp has discovered yet the McCain can't use the computer because he is disabled. McCain can not type. Pretty ignorant attack that is gonna backfire.

14 posted on 09/13/2008 8:19:39 AM PDT by Always Right (Obama: more arrogant than Bill Clinton, more naive than Jimmy Carter, and more liberal than LBJ.)
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Does anyone notice that Obama is leading a counterattack and no one is following him? No Joe, No Hillary, No Pelosi, no Howard Dean. haha..some commander-in-chief Obama would be


15 posted on 09/13/2008 8:19:43 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( Our Mamma beats your Obama)
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“Sen. Barack Obama and his campaign launched a promised counterpunch against Sen. John McCain on Friday, portraying him as an aging, out-of-touch politician”

Funny, I thought Obama was portraying McCain as a loser because he was a tortured war vet who couldn’t use a keyboard due to injuries endured while in prison camp for 5 years.


16 posted on 09/13/2008 8:19:54 AM PDT by frankjr (Stand up Chuck, let 'em see ya!!! Ohhhhhh.)
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It looks as though we’re about to see the “angry black man.”


17 posted on 09/13/2008 8:20:07 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Whites lift McCain to slim lead over Obama in poll" - Ass. Press ---09-12-08)
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sounds like more of the same from obama!


18 posted on 09/13/2008 8:20:50 AM PDT by BooyahPower
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To: Labyrinthos

Hunter Biden quit his lobbying job.


19 posted on 09/13/2008 8:21:05 AM PDT by griswold3 (Al qaeda is guilty of hirabah (war against society) Penalty is death.)
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20 posted on 09/13/2008 8:21:24 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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