Posted on 10/04/2008 8:36:34 PM PDT by 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 Tuesdays debate that will tie Obama to convicted money launderer Tony Rezko and former Weathermen radical William Ayers.
But Obama isnt 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, Obamas 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 hed 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.
Observe Orient Decide Act. This idea is instinctive among air force fighter pilots and naval aviators. It was taught by Boyd in his well known lectures at the National War College. Attended by Captain John Sydney McCain USN.
“I have a bracelet, too!”
that is amazing.
i was just reading it on the link as you posted to me.
i remember when i was an undergrad i worked in the university bookstore and cloward and piven books
were used by the sociology and political science departments for classes.
Hahaha my sentiments exactly. Obambi sounds like a little kid, I know you are but what am I, and the old I’m rubber you’re glue!
i hope so.
if it gets messy, so be it.
better messy now than a socialist government later.
Barack, how can you preempt on Monday something that was started two days earlier by Palin?
Sounds like a "have at it" order, to me.
Here’s hoping McCain can multitask...tie Obama to fannie/freddie fiaso as well as tie him to terrorists and radical marxists.
Exacta-mundo friend. 0baby can’t take the high road, lies do get exposed sooner or later. Sooner or later. I prefer NOW!!!
They should hit and keep on hitting until his world is spinning in pain. He’s so incredibly vulnerable in so many ways, and everyone loves to put Palin on TV.
Hit him thus:
1) never voting on important issues
2) having made a statement to support just about anything, liberal or conservative, that could be supported. That way, they can say things like, “As I said before, I respect the 2nd amendment”.
3) standing by Chicago politicians while they took advantage of the people he was supposed to stand up for - he supported them, campaigned for them, and today, he profits from those connections.
4) being nothing but a salesman, a con artist, an imitation public servant who sold his soul a million times over.
I have to question why McCain - - or any other candidate - - would tip off the scumbag leftists newsrooms about their strategies. I mean, McCain wouldn’t have told the Germans, “Hey, we’re going to be storming the beaches at Normandy on June 6th”, would he?
Obama had to already know this was coming. You don’t have associations like those and expect that your opponent won’t use them at the opportune time.
In a crisis, Barack Obama does nothing and hopes someone else takes care of it.
Meanwhile, Barack is friends with just about every extreme left wing kook known to mankind.
So, who in the McCain campaign leaked the strategy. It was out before Palin went on the offensive.
The old warhorse...old fighter pilot...OODA loop......
Obama also UNDERESTIMATES the POWER of US and other conservative bloggers like us.
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