Posted on 03/02/2008 9:08:25 PM PST by SmithL
The attack will include an assault on his thin record of achievement and his limited experience coupled with sometimes anonymous insinuations about his cultural background. Republican officials can hit him high while talk-show hosts and independent groups hit him low.
It could go something like this: He was the most liberal senator of 2007, according to the National Journal, a respected Washington research publication. He's weak and untested on national security. He's dangerously naive. (And pssst: his middle name's Hussein, and his last name rhymes with Osama.)
Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain already is challenging Obama on issues. While he acknowledges Obama's inspirational persona, McCain contrasts his own record -- a 71-year-old war veteran and experienced conservative lawmaker -- with that of a 46-year-old, first-term liberal senator who has no military experience and says he'd raise taxes.
As for the National Journal rating, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis predicted that it would be all over campaign mailers: "That'll be right there on your refrigerator under one of those magnets."
McCain senior adviser Charlie Black said that when the race narrows to a McCain-Obama duel, as expected, voters will take a long, hard look at Obama, whose success thus far has been largely a reflection of his personal charisma.
"This country is a right-of-center country," Black said. General-election voters "don't want more government spending, they don't want higher taxes, they don't want to see their health care system have more government involvement."
Regarding Obama's Muslim relatives, Black said, "I can't imagine that being anything we're going to talk about."
On another front that could turn off some voters -- Obama's admitted marijuana and cocaine use as a youth -- Black said: "I think McCain's unlikely to touch on that. John McCain is not a negative campaigner. He especially does not like negative personal campaigning."
But McCain wouldn't have to use such tactics himself.
The Republican Party would launch its own attacks. Already, Republican researchers are drawing up timelines contrasting what student Obama or young-adult Obama was doing while adult McCain was in Vietnam or legislating in Congress.
And some conservative talk-show hosts and bloggers like to portray Obama as a Muslim.
Michael Reagan, the former president's son and a conservative talk-show host himself, opposes Obama's liberal policies but despises the fact that some of his callers refer to Obama by his middle name.
"I truly believe when someone uses Barack Hussein Obama, that's ... their way of saying the N-word, and it's copping out."
"Do you remember Ronald Reagan's middle name? Do you remember Jimmy Carter's middle name? Conservatives are using it as the N-word. The man was named by his father, who happened to be Kenyan. I hope it does not work. ... The idea he is some Manchurian Muslim candidate is outrageous to me."
Then there are independent groups, which may run their own ads attacking Obama.
Jerome Corsi, a co-author of "Unfit for Command," the text behind the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth" assault on Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's war credentials in 2004, said that Obama's background would be picked over and some of it aired, perhaps by Corsi himself.
"The time he spent in Indonesia, what was he doing there?" said Corsi, who also writes for WorldNetDaily, a conservative online news site. (Obama was 6 to 10 years old while he was in Indonesia.) "The drug years: What period were they and when did they really start and stop?"
Corsi also intends to research Obama's late mother, Obama's connections to Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga and Odinga's ties to Muslim groups, and some of Obama's early mentors who took radical leftist or separatist stands.
Those mentors include community organizer Saul Alinsky and Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., who's retiring as the longtime minister of Obama's church and has praised the anti-Semitic Nation of Islam founder Louis Farrakhan. Obama has condemned Farrakhan and stressed his support of Israel to Jewish leaders, but he remains a member of Wright's church.
The photo
Last week, Barack Obama contended with a photo circulated anonymously that featured him on a 2006 visit to Kenya wearing a Somali outfit and looking vaguely Muslim. At a John McCain rally, an Ohio talk-show host repeatedly invoked Obama's middle name, "Hussein," a tactic that McCain denounced.
Obama's father's side of the family is African and Muslim, and Obama spent some childhood years in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation.
But he was raised by his divorced American mother, who wasn't Muslim, and her parents. As an adult, Obama joined the United Church of Christ, albeit in a black Chicago congregation whose preacher has a somewhat radical reputation.
"I truly believe when someone uses Barack Hussein Obama, that's ... their way of saying the N-word, and it's copping out."
"Do you remember Ronald Reagan's middle name? Do you remember Jimmy Carter's middle name? Conservatives are using it as the N-word."
Then why do we still, to this day, call President Kennedy; JFK. Because in the early '60s everyone used President Kennedy's full name; John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Without his middle name, Barack Obama is just B.O.
lololol...
Barak in Hebrew means lightening..
attack, attack, attack
hillary failed, if mccain fails we will have another jimmy carter on our hands.
1- that church??
2- crazy wife who is going to fix our souls
3- che in the house
4- no american flag pin
5- won’t salute flag
6- anti missile defense- doesn’t seem to be such great judgement
7- most liberal member of the senate
8- ties to marxist when “organizing in chicago”
9-affirmative action admittee- this doesn’t work so well since mccain brags about bad grads at annapolis
Baraq was that donkey or horse that Muhammed claimed that he rode it into heaven. He said that horse had the face of a woman and the tail of a peacock. That horse was supposed to have left his footprint on a rock in Jerusalem on temple mount. So just call him “Baraq”. Muhammed’s winged horse! It has the same pronunciation, just another spelling.
"Baraq was that donkey or horse that Muhammed claimed that he rode it into heaven."
Also, Ehud Barak, from 1999 t0 2001, was the former Israeli Prime Minister.
http://www.sonsofapesandpigs.org/2008/02/press-release-america-is-being.html
America is being fooled by Barak Hussein Obama!!
“YES, MUSLIMS ARE MEMBERS IN OUR CHURCH.” “WE HAVE MANY MEMBERS IN OUR CHURCH WHO ARE MUSLIMS.”
Do you think that the Ancient Order of Hibernians will endorse McCain? Lots of police and firemen are in that organization.
It’s almost like your making the case that McCain is the real Democrat in the race. So, in fact, this is an election with no Republican choice.
Wilson and Earl (I think).
Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush.
Hmmm. Maybe middle names aren't used as much as I thought.
The middle names were used when the presidents were living, breathing newsmakers.
Obama is now a living, breathing newsmaker.
BHO’s church has a NON-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA and has a lot of Muslim members...this is only a small part of why BHO will never be elected...the DhimmiRats are in the process of diving right over the cliff. The illogical Reds for BHO just can’t keep that Socialistic shitte stew bubbling for any longer!
Truman didn’t have a middle name, just the initial, S.
>>McCain is not going to campaign negative. It would be interesting to see if GOP decides to take negative route.
No, that’s our job. Didn’t you get the memo?
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