The U.S. Voted Wearing Their Change Goggles ("Style over Substance")

Fox News.com ^ | November 12, 2008 | Mike Baker

[Lou L]

His campaign was centered on trying to tell people why they shouldn't vote for Obama and not on why people should vote for McCain. If nothing else good comes from this campaign then maybe it'll be the death of that Rovian strategy.

There's nothing wrong, IMO, with bringing up questionable circumstances (or evening damning facts) about your opponent. But I agree with you, McCain needed to offer something, some reason by which to vote for him. The dose of "negative campaigning" should be limited to perhaps 20% of the overall message.

[padre35]

There is more to a Presidential Election then winning the Presidency, Rove is one of two counselors to have a sitting President gain seats in Congress in off year elections, REpublicans expanded majorities in 02 and 04..

[Non-Sequitur]

There is more to a Presidential Election then winning the Presidency, Rove is one of two counselors to have a sitting President gain seats in Congress in off year elections, REpublicans expanded majorities in 02 and 04..

And one of the few Republican counselors to lose 30-plus seats in the other.

... REpublicans expanded majorities in 02 and 04..

And gave up over 50 seats in 06 and 08. I guess the sheen wore off Rove just a little bit?

[padre35]

Rove didn’t lose his sheen, GWB at 25% approval was impossible to overcome in 08.

[MHGinTN]

Actually, until Chucky Schumer took the trouble to out a major bank (Indymac) as on the verge of failing thus creating a run on that bank for it’s cash, McCain was winning the election according to polling. President Bush is way ahead of the Congress in approval, too, yet democrats pick up seats in House and Senate.

[Grampa Dave]

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94I3RCG0&show_article=1
Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama with racial epithet
Nov 19 12:20 PM US/Eastern
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF and LEE KEATH
Associated Press Writers

CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Al-Qaida’s No. 2 leader used a racial epithet to insult Barack Obama in a message posted Wednesday, describing the president-elect in demeaning terms that imply he does the bidding of whites.

The message appeared chiefly aimed at persuading Muslims and Arabs that Obama does not represent a change in U.S. policies. Ayman al-Zawahri said in the message, which appeared on militant Web sites, that Obama is “the direct opposite of honorable black Americans” like Malcolm X, the 1960s African-American rights leader.
In al-Qaida’s first response to Obama’s victory, al-Zawahri also called the president-elect—along with secretaries of state Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice—”house negroes.”

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Even al Qaeda says that Zer0 the 0re0’s appointments represent no change.

George $oreA$$ is controlling his house 0re0 very closely with these appointments/selections from Biden to $inator $hrill.