Obama: McCain Is Trying to Score Cheap Political Points
Submitted by jmeasley on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 00:48.
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was on ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson tonight, where he directly addressed the recent attacks by Sarah Palin that accused him of palling around with former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers.
When asked about Ayers, Obama said, “Why don't we just clear it up right now. I'll repeat again what I've said many times. This is a guy who engaged in some despicable acts 40 years ago when I was eight years old. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois. And we served on a school reform board together, by the way, that was funded by Walter Annenberg, who had been an ambassador and close friend of Ronald Reagan. And so I have talked to him about school reform issues.”
Obama said that that these attacks make no sense in the middle of an economic crisis, “And the notion that somehow he has been involved in my campaign, that he is an adviser of mine, that he -- I've palled around with a terrorist, all these statements are made simply to try to score cheap political points. And, you know, the idea that the McCain campaign would want to make this the centerpiece of the discussion in the closing weeks of a campaign where we are facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and we're in the middle of two wars, I think makes very little sense not just to me but to the American people.”
He made it clear that McCain/Palin can talk about whatever they want, but he is going to talk about the economy, “And if, you know, look, I can handle these attacks for the remaining four weeks, but it's certainly not serving our democracy right now. We need to be having a debate about how we're going to yank ourselves out of a very difficult situation. And that's what I'm going to spend my time talking about.”
Evidence of how poorly these attacks are playing is found in the fact that this interview was dominated by the economy. The Ayers question was the last one of the interview. If the mission of these character attacks is at least in part to distract from the economy, then they are failing miserably. In the context of what is going on in the world around us, bringing up Bill Ayers now, makes no sense.
People want to hear about the economy, and the McCain campaign is talking about character. There is a fundamental disconnect between what voters want to hear , and what the Republican campaign is talking about. On the economy, this interview was a repeat of many of the same points that Obama has been making during the presidential debates. One of the most basic rules of campaigning is that the candidate who is most in tune with the mood of the electorate wins the election.
Obama beat Hillary Clinton because understood the political landscape better she did, and he is beating John McCain, because McCain refuses to talk about the issues that really matter to voters. McCain’s behavior is like a waiter who brings you what he wants to serve instead of what you ordered. No matter how good the food is that is brought to the table, if it isn’t what you want to eat, you’ll send it back. In political terms, John McCain is on the verge of being sent back, because he has no interest in filling our order.
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McPalin
It's plain to see that the McCain/Palin ticket is long lost, so their true colors are coming out. They are both political hacks at best, and desperate beyond their means of governing. Sarah Plain.....total zero, and so far out of her league, she makes Curly Howard look presidential. McCain.....forget about it. Out of touch, dishonest, and a liar supreme. Anyone who wants these two morons running our country, should fall in line behind "Billo the Clown." The only thing that might keep Obama out of office, is the same voter fraud that elected what's his name...twice.
Dangerous precedent by McCain's pitbull...
Palin is dangerously walking the path of destruction of McCain's campaign for presidency. By inciting fears and accusations of Obama being a terrorist, just because he has done worked with Bill Ayers funded by the philanthropist Walter Annenberg, a Republican. Palin runs the risk of the dividing the country by using scare tactics,just like 4 years ago, during Bush re-election campaign.
I was a big fan of McCain, especially after my personal visit to Hanoi, Vietnam two years ago. In Hanoi, I had a chance to visit a small museum right on the former site of the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" jail. In there, I have a privilege to see McCain's original flight-suit and his helmet in an encased-glass cabinet when he was shot down during Vietnam War in Oct. 1967. It was a somber moment indeed, and you feel thankful and appreciate what he's done to his country. The night prior to my visit the museum, in my hotel room, I was lucky enough to watch an HBO movie based on McCain's biography where it depicts his story before he joined the Naval Academy, and during his captivity in Hanoi, and after he returned home.
Then...came his presidential campaign against Obama. The so called maverick picked his running mate "out of the woods" (per John Stewart's comment)with no substance. Palin to me...is perfect in running the mayoral or gubernatorial candidacies but...VP slot... not a chance! She's a disaster! The mud slinging that they're using right now directed to Obama (as he called him "that one" in his Presidential Debate II) is just deplorable! Where's your honor McCain as a former military person, that you should treat your opponents with honor and respect, regardless. Obama is not just your presidential opponent, he still your fellow senator. Branded or referred to Obama as "a terrorist" so your base can have something to cheer on is unthinkable! You supposed to attack Obama on policy issues, and your plans to get us out of this economic crises and two wars. Why bother with Obama's guilty-by-association-ploy while your own running mate as recent as this year send her video greetings to the Alaska Independent Party's convention, whose idealogy is to seceed from United States of America. Palin is not only guilty by association, she's a symphatizer and her husband was once a member too. The worst part of it she never denounced her association with AIP, unlike Obama that has denounced his pastor, Rev. Wright. McCain, do you think your running mate seeing America like the rest us seeing America? Did Obama's campaign ever hit your running mate with personal attacks of her role in her former brother-in-law firing, or her associations with AIP? that can be damaging to her and your campaign. Instead, Obama is concentrating in the real issues that voters wanted to hear...can you for once, back to the real issues, or your campaign will be doomed forever!
Former McCain's fan.
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