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‘Attack by Association’ Viewed as Fair Game by McCain Camp
wsj.com ^ | 08/19/08 | Laura Meckler

Posted on 09/19/2008 6:54:44 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3

Don’t be shocked if you see the McCain campaign pull the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright out of mothballs in new attacks against one-time parishioner, Barack Obama. McCain advisers say that they see “attack by association” as fair game now, arguing that Obama’s campaign has been using that technique to go after McCain. In particular, the Obama campaign has hammered McCain on the stump and in TV ads on the number of one-time lobbyists working for his campaign. (The McCain campaign is also angry about a Spanish-language TV ad that ties McCain to Rush Limbaugh on immigration, without ever saying that McCain took on Limbaugh and others to fight for comprehensive immigration reform.) “They played it one way, we played it another way,” said one of McCain’s top advisers, Mark Salter. “Now we’re both going to play it the same way.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ads; associations; electionads; jeremiahwright; mccain; mccainpalin; obama; obamaandgod

1 posted on 09/19/2008 6:54:44 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
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To: TornadoAlley3

Attack by Association’ = OBAMBI AND LARRY SINCLAIR coming to a town near you soooooooon


2 posted on 09/19/2008 6:56:27 PM PDT by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: TomasUSMC
Let's Get Ready To Rumble!
3 posted on 09/19/2008 6:57:20 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
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To: TornadoAlley3
without ever saying that McCain took on Limbaugh and others to fight for comprehensive immigration reform

...and loss BTW, because as he later confessed, "he learned his lesson" the "others" mentioned in this reply wouldn't be the American citizen who shut down the congressional switchboard over the amnesty bill would it?

4 posted on 09/19/2008 7:01:08 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: TornadoAlley3
Let's get ready to RUMBLE!!!!


5 posted on 09/19/2008 7:03:07 PM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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To: Doogle

you better believe it! :) that seems so long ago, calling and calling and calling.......


6 posted on 09/19/2008 7:04:55 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
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To: TornadoAlley3

THEN DO IT!!!!

For the next six weeks the voters need to have ads on Wright and Ayers 24/7, among others.

LET’S GET IT ON!!!


7 posted on 09/19/2008 7:08:16 PM PDT by KoRn (Barack Obama Must Be Stopped!!!)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Resume of: B HUSSEIN OBAMA

1.) COLB
Proven fake by more than one source
2.) Sketchy childhood
We know some details - Lots of gaps - muslim?
3.) College thesis has vanished
Was it anything like Michele’s?
4.) Overseas travel
Pakistan? Why? On what passport?
5.) Law records
What cases did he represent?
6.) Senate records disappeared
What was he trying to hide?
7.) Associations
Rev Wright, Ft Flager, Ayers, Rezko, Davis, Michele etc.
8.) Senate voting record
That speaks for itself
9.) SCOTUS
Who would his choices be?
10.) Proven Liar
11.) Inexperience
12.) Racist, Sexist, Radical, Marxist views

____________________________________________________________
You would think the associations would end it all.


8 posted on 09/19/2008 7:08:58 PM PDT by mouse1 (McCain/Palin 08 Palin/Jindal 12)
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To: TornadoAlley3

‘Attack by Association’ Viewed as Fair Game by McCain Camp

Its attack by 23 year membership.

Maybe Hussein didn’t know he was a member at that church.


9 posted on 09/19/2008 7:10:14 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' Barney Frank 9-10-03)
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To: mouse1

THERE ARE NO Records of his completing classes either.

He is exactly like the financial mess we are in: an unqualified PC AA product.


10 posted on 09/19/2008 7:12:26 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' Barney Frank 9-10-03)
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To: mouse1

THERE ARE NO Records of his completing classes either.

He is exactly like the financial mess we are in: an unqualified PC AA product.


11 posted on 09/19/2008 7:12:29 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis,'' Barney Frank 9-10-03)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Laura Meckler

She came to the Journal from The Associated Press Washington bureau

12 posted on 09/19/2008 7:14:35 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: TornadoAlley3

Obama sure attacked McCain by association, and in at least one ad completely lied about it, both by misquoting Rush Limbaugh, and then mis-associating him with McCain.

Associating Larry Sinclair with Obama would be wrong, but it would be more fair than the association Obama drew between McCain and Rush.

After all, Sinclair is saying he had an association with Obama. McCain and Rush both deny they have an association.


13 posted on 09/19/2008 7:24:40 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: KoRn

Rush is on Greta on Fox news now! Love it:) Obama is a street agitator etc..........


14 posted on 09/19/2008 7:26:37 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
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To: TornadoAlley3

Rush is letting them have it! I love it!

Especially the reference to Wright. I think Obama has just stirred up a hornets nest with this, and it’s going to backfire.


15 posted on 09/19/2008 7:32:10 PM PDT by KoRn (Barack Obama Must Be Stopped!!!)
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