Obama on the ropes (Sarah Palin is dancing like a butterfly, stinging like a bee)

The Post Gazette ^ | September 14, 2008 | by Jack Kelly

[library user]

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Some conservatives think it unseemly for a Republican to complain about sexism. But they miss the genius of what the McCain campaign is doing. Whether their outrage was real or faux, the McCain campaign has Mr. Obama, looking rattled, talking about the Republican candidate for vice president instead of talking about issues that might win him votes. The GOP television ad about the lipstick remark was designed for an audience of one, and it worked. Mr. McCain is so far inside Mr. Obama's OODA loop that I almost feel sorry for the senator from Illinois.

The OODA loop is a concept coined by fighter ace John Boyd. It stands for Observation-Orientation-Decision-Action. You see something. You figure out what it means. You decide what you're going to do about it, and then you do it. The winner in a dogfight is the pilot who goes through the OODA loop faster.

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It's amazing to me that Mr. Obama spends so much time attacking her. He's running for president. She's running for vice president. When you punch below your weight card, you do not add to your stature.

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The McCain campaign is betting Mr. Obama's ego is so great and his skin so thin that he can't resist responding to the barbs Ms. Palin delivers with such a sweet smile. So far, they're winning the bet.

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But Mr. Obama has a legitimate beef with the news media. Were it not for their vicious, baseless characterizations of Ms. Palin and her family, the audience for her speech would not have been comparable to his in the Barackopolis. Nor could she have delivered to Mr. McCain on the following night an even bigger audience than Mr. Obama attracted.

For Republicans, the irony is delicious.

[tsowellfan]

Mr. Obama’s not doing well in the Native American population either.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-ijnLgHKA8

Found this through the website:

http://www.nativeamericansagainstobama.com

[StAntKnee]

The whole loop is so bizarre — where the media and 0 campaign yammer about Sara Palin 24/7 — that I’m beginning to think it’s a rational strategy. Talk about her so much that the public get tired of her via overexposure.

Quite brilliant, too, I think. Just wait till the Sarah Boredom Effect kicks in. I’m thinking “In the Year 2424.”

Yeah, man, that’s the ticket. GoBama.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I think attacking the SENIOR Senator from Arizona is “above the pay grade” of the JUNIOR Senator from Illinois.

[D-fendr]

comparable to his in the Barackopolis.

Good. But, Obamaopolis is more poetic..

[TomasUSMC]

Sarah Palin is dancing like a butterfly, stinging like a bee)
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The massive bleeding out of the obambi, could not be caused by a bee sting, but most certainly may be attributed to a
PITBULL .

[Burkean]

For too long the GOP has let itself be defined and confined by liberals—liberals who are then shocked when a female VP emerges, or when Dick and Lynne Cheney don’t disown their pregnant lesbian daughter, or when their own side like Lieberman jumps the fence to side with us. It shows a clear misunderstanding of the party.

[SlightOfTongue]

Actually, for Obama to intelligently comment about Palin is above his pay grade - literally!

[lowbridge]

When They Were Kings: Obama vs. Palin