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 >
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I thought he we referring to Biden.
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.
lol!! nice!!!!
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.
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?
Obambi needs to pick out a shade of blue lipstick he likes!
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.
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.
During my administration kittens and puppies will be rounded up for a 'Feed the Homeless' program.
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?
Idiots at Washpost are quoting the email ad, not realizing the gaff it is.
Stupid.
The sharpness can also be seen in these two speeches here (from last week) and here (from yesterday).
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.
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
“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.
It looks as though we’re about to see the “angry black man.”
sounds like more of the same from obama!
Hunter Biden quit his lobbying job.
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