Biden's tax return showing $995.00 as the largest annual charitable gift given over the last 10 years. Most years, he hangs around in the $360.00 range. That's Joe's classic generosity.
Posted on 09/15/2008 12:46:57 PM PDT by hop1ite
Obama Admits He Wins Contest of Publishing Negative and Irrelevant Ads
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"If we're going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily," Obama said.
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Obama's Exclusive Interview With 'GMA'
Latest Accusation of Campaign Low Blows Via Attack Ads By MARK MOONEY
Sept. 15, 2008—
Sen. Barack Obama insisted today that his campaign commercial pointing out that Republican Sen. John McCain doesn't know how to use a computer wasn't a sly shot at his rival's age.
"I didn't say that. What I said was ... that John McCain is out of touch," Obama told "Good Morning America." Obama was asked about the ad by "GMA" co-anchor Chris Cuomo as both major party candidates stepped up the number of attack ads.
Last week McCain was forced to defend a couple of his ads on ABC's "The View" when co-host Joy Behar said they were "lies."
Even Republican attack-master Karl Rove said the two campaigns were in danger of going overboard.
"Both campaigns are making a mistake, and that is they are taking whatever their attacks are and going one step too far," Rove said on "Fox News Sunday." "They don't need to attack each other in this way."
It was Obama's turn to defend his campaign tactics when pressed by Cuomo today.
"It paints him as an old man. You say he can't use a computer, he's never sent an e-mail. What does that all mean?" Cuomo asked.
"What it means is that we've got a 21st century economy. And John McCain does not have a vision for how to move that forward," Obama replied.
Bolstering his defense that the ad wasn't aimed at the fact that McCain is 72, Obama persisted with the campaign's "out of touch" theme.
"When his health care adviser was recently quoted saying that 'We don't really have an uninsured problem because people can just go to the emergency room,' well, that has nothing to do with age," Obama said. "That indicates somebody who is not spending time thinking about what people are going through day to day."
Obama rejected suggestions that his campaign ad was a low blow.
"If we're going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily," Obama said.
What Obama apparently meant was that McCain, not Obama, has put out more negative ads.
McCain has been questioned about an ad stating that Obama insulted GOP running mate Sarah Palin by using the expression "lipstick on a pig" while dismissing McCain's claim that he would bring change to Washington. McCain was also challenged over an ad in which he accused Obama of proposing sex ed for kindergarten students.
Obama tried to highlight the complaints about McCain's tactics with a new ad that opens with a picture of McCain and a quote from the Republican saying, "I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land." The announcer then asks, "What happened to John McCain?"
Obama Doesn't Regret Not Picking Clinton
Despite his complaint that the campaign was veering away from issues that concern voters and concentrating on unimportant controversies, Obama rebuffed Cuomo's suggestion that he accept McCain's offer to hold a series of town halls together.
"This whole thing about town halls I think is a little bit of a gimmick," Obama said. "We've got three debates coming up."
During his interview with "GMA," Obama indicated the big shift of white women voters to McCain was part of a "cycle" in a long campaign rather than McCain's selection of Palin as his running mate.
Obama said he wasn't having second thoughts about snubbing Sen. Hillary Clinton for Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate, despite the surge in white women for McCain and Biden's comment over the weekend that Clinton "quite frankly ... might have been a better pick than me."
"That's Joe's classic generosity. I mean, I think that's part of what makes Joe so endearing, that despite the fact that he's been in Washington a long time, he's just a generous person, and a self-deprecating person," Obama said.
Obama, who picked up $66 million in campaign cash over the past month, is stumping in Colorado today. McCain, who raked in $47 million in the last month, will be making stop in Florida.
Palin will be campaigning in the crucial state of Ohio today.
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How about this BARRY, YOU NEVER BEEN IN TOUCH
The reporter actually wrote this? LOL!
I don’t agree he misspoke. He knows he’s the “lower blower”, is unapologetic, and is smarmy enough to say it knowing the MSM will cover his skinny tush with “what he meant was...”
Then we have an Obama ad which portrays Senator McCain as 'out of touch' because he cannot type an email.
I see these in the following context: Although they didn't come right out and say it, Obama's audience implied Sarah Palin is swine.
On the issue of the Email, I got the impression the Obama camp thinks McCain is a doddering old man who wouldn't know where to find a computer in a room, much less use one.
...What Team Obama didn't count on was the fact that they've once again stuck their collective feet in their mouths, not realizing McCain sustained multiple wounds from being imprisoned in the Hanoi Hilton for five hellacious years, and that there are many other POWs out there who've encountered far worse and may not enjoy the mobility many of us take for granted.
Another tidbit uncovered (thanks by in large to NRO's Jonah Goldberg) is the current POTUS, George W. Bush is a email fanatic, but for security reasons, does not utilize this mode of communication from the Oval Office.
As for the Palin insult, this has not gone over well with two core constituencies the Obama camp desperately needs to win this election: Caucasian women and men, particularly those who live in Flyover Country.
...So when Obama stated his campaign was going over the line with the negative ads as compared to his rival, he accidentally told the truth.
Where’s the youtube??
“””If we’re going to ask questions about, you know, who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily,” Obama said.””
AHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHA!! you got that one right O’ lol
“What Obama apparently meant was that McCain, not Obama, has put out more negative ads.” apparently meant? I think not. Words? Just Words? Not with this guy.
He unconsciously spoke the truth, as he has several times, as it relates to him and the MSM keep bailing him out by pointing out what he “apparently meant” to say...
And if Barry becomes President, who is going to bail his narrow ass out of trouble when he comes back from "talking" to the Iranian nutbag and next we see Israel under a mushroom cloud?
With that, he also deserves the title of SOFA KING!
He probably asked Lindsey Lohan how to answer this one.
MSM reporter, Obama staffer, a difference without a difference.
Biden's tax return showing $995.00 as the largest annual charitable gift given over the last 10 years. Most years, he hangs around in the $360.00 range. That's Joe's classic generosity.
And on another note, Stephanolis tells us that Obama meant to say, “My Christian Faith”.
Isn’t it *interesting* how they all feel the need to cover for him?
B.H. Obama is becoming more and more bitter, negative and sour. He does not have a very positive message but only how bad everything is living in the U.S.
Dear Senator Obama,
Don’t use big words like promulgating if you don’t know what they mean!
Dummy!
It won't be AIPAC, I'll tell you that.
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