Exclusive: Obama to preempt McCain assault

Politico ^ | 4 Oct 2008 | Mike Allen

[Rokke]

Branding his opponent as “erratic in a crisis,” Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is preempting plans by Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to portray him as having sinister connections to controversial Chicagoans.

Obama officials call it political jujitsu – turning the attacks back on the attacker.

McCain officials had said early in the weekend that they plan to begin advertising after Tuesday’s debate that will tie Obama to convicted money launderer Tony Rezko and former Weathermen radical William Ayers.

But Obama isn’t waiting to respond. His campaign is going up Monday on national cable stations with a scathing ad saying: “Three quarters of a million jobs lost this year. Our financial system in turmoil. And John McCain? Erratic in a crisis. Out of touch on the economy. No wonder his campaign wants to change the subject.

“Turn the page on the financial crisis by launching dishonorable, dishonest ‘assaults’ against Barack Obama. Struggling families can't turn the page on this economy, and we can't afford another president who is this out of touch.”

Then Obama says: “I'm Barack Obama and I approved this message.”

McCain officials told Politico that the new offensive is likely to focus on Rezko and Ayers. The officials said the campaign will not bring up the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama’s former pastor, because McCain has forbade them from using that as a weapon. Without being specific, the officials said outside groups may focus on Wright.

When word of the planned attacks leaked Saturday, Obama officials said within hours that it was an attempt by McCain to distract voters from the economy.

“We think the McCain campaign made a huge error by telling the press that their strategy was to distract from the most important issue facing voters,” a senior Obama official said. “Every attack going forward will be easy to characterize for what it is – an attempt to distract from the Bush-McCain economic record."

McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds hinted at the tough new line Saturday on “Fox & Friends.”

“There are associations that are important to who Barack Obama is as a candidate, who he’d be as president,” Bounds said.

Obama-Biden communications director Dan Pfeiffer said about the new ads: “If John McCain thinks he can ‘turn the page’ on the economic crisis facing American families, he is even more out of touch than we imagined. Now there may be no good answers for John McCain due to his erratic response to the financial crisis, but his desire to avoid discussing the economy is something we will remind voters of everyday for the next month.”

[CycloneGOP]

It’s that “association” thing....

[Hanna548]

Did you all see the show on FOX tonight “Saving our economy, whats next”

They are tying Obama into the mortgage mess. It is going to come at him from every direction.

[unspun]

Meanwhile, we have to do the job.

Everyone -- Click the links -- Send them to everyone, GOP officials, campaign organizers, media, friends, family, neighbors -- and the unsuspecting Obama supporters you know.

Evidence indicating that Barack Obama wants to grow government either directly into socialism, or into economic collapse, in order to bring an ACORN-agitated Socialist revolution. That was the goal of Saul Alinsky. That is the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Frank Marshall Davis, ACORN, William Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, et. al.

James Simpson, a former White House economist, has just published "Barack Obama & the Strategy of Manufactured Crisis" - on AmericanThinker.com.

Download Interview of James Simpson by Sandy Rios, Tuesday 9/30 - WYLL 1160AM, Chicago, IL
From http://www.culturecampaign.com/culturecorner.aspx

Further documentation connecting the dots of all the neo-Marxists who have invested in the development of Barack Obama may be found on discoverthenetworks.org

Simpson documents his research in his article using Web links and provides a rough flow chart.

"CHANGE"

[LegalEagle61]

It is about time and the timing is perfect. It doesn’t matter about the issues if you have a communist/terrorist in the White House. This info will sink Obama and I have a feeling the GOP has stuff we don’t even know about yet.

[penelopesire]

Not if they watched the Fox News Special on it tonight. It made it very clear that this was a democrat scandal and that Obama, early in his career, worked as an attorney for ACORN and ‘bullied’ banks with lawsuits to give subprime loans. They named names...LOL. SHUMER,FRANK, DODD and OBAMA!!

This meltdown has the potential to bring the entire democrat party down when the American people learn the true story.

[xkaydet65]

No! Palin referenced a Times article 12 hours after it was published. The Times put the idea into circulation. If you watch her delivery it all refernces the fact that she read it in th Times. OODA!!!

[LegalEagle61]

Yes I saw it twice tonight. Great a full assault on the ONE! he won’t know what hit him. Doesn’t he know that GOOD always triumphs over evil???? Fox usually runs their specials over and over PLUS Fox News has been growing in audience size ever since people started catching on to the MSM bias. Plus tomorrow night on Hannity’s America, Sean is doing a full hour on Ayers and Obama, I think it is about ALL Barack’s associations.

[Hanna548]

The next Presidental Debate (Townhall meeting) is only 2 days away. Just enough time for this to fester to boiling point:)) Man this one may be real entertaining.

[indianyogi]

You are right about Politico...what I do not understand who Fox and Greta have made them a regular? They stink in their opinion — bias bias bias.

[JennysCool]

“Turn the page on the financial crisis by launching dishonorable, dishonest ‘assaults’ against Barack Obama. Struggling families can't turn the page on this economy, and we can't afford another president who is this out of touch.”

Then Obama says: “I'm Barack Obama and I approved this message.”

This is supposed to be some major "gotcha"? It sounds like all Obama's other ads! When your whole campaign has been overblown hype, it's hard to get people to tell your new overblown hype from your old overblown hype.

Obama has the most hackneyed, least creative advertising and marketing people imaginable.

[ken21]

who is the moderator?

[LegalEagle61]

I sent that to that link on Fox News that says UReport a few days ago and said please have some one check this out. Everyone should do the same so they know it is important to the people.

[dannyboy72a]

My response to the Bush McCain mantra would be, “I have as much to do with the Bush Presidency as Barack Obama has to do with the Bombs his friend William Ayers set off at the Pentagon.”

or

“I’d rather be associated with a man who the voters of this nation elected President twice than a man who elected himself judge, jury, and executioner by blowing up the pentagon; Baracks comrade William Ayers is a man who publishes an article on September 11th saying he wished he had done more - maybe he was applauding the hi-jackers he knew were coming to NY. It was published in the NY Times after all. Is that coincidence?”

[Aria]

You have such a good plan - I wish they’d listen to us.....on second thought maybe they do. They have finally unleashed Sarah.

[unspun]

I sent that to that link on Fox News that says UReport a few days ago and said please have some one check this out. Everyone should do the same so they know it is important to the people.

Exactly. Flood the inboxes of the media. Call your Republican members of Congress, too. Call the White House. Contact the FBI. Do everything.

[Salvation]

Keep going, Senator McCain. You are on the right road. Hit Obamanation hard.

[gidget7]

I hope and pray McCain's campaign not only goes after associates of obama’s, but also points out Rezko and his pal obama are responsible for a lot of the economic crisis. And that his bring this out in the open points to NOT giving the economy a chance to fall to their kind of crooked tactics, ever again!

We MUST throw this crisis back in the laps of the culprits who caused it, and point out again, in video, who caused it! Rezko and obama are up to their necks in it. Tell America we cannot afford to put the foxes in charge of our economy.

[ken21]

thank you.

[Shelayne]

This info will sink Obama and I have a feeling the GOP has stuff we don’t even know about yet.

Someone I was talking to recently said that he has been following the Phil Berg situation, and said that Berg wants to get this done with ASAP, so the Dems can get someone else on the ticket (Hillary, I presume). He believes that the Pubbies have something devastating on Obama, and he wants to beat them to the punch. I haven't been following the Phil Berg thing very closely, so I don't know how accurate that is, BUT it certainly makes sense. And I pray that he is right!

[LegalEagle61]

Agreed, Obama must be stopped. WE have to do it so tell everyone! Bug the hell out of them until they listen. Don’t let the MSM and Obama win this!