John McCain and more specifically Sarah Palin have been trying to attack Barack Obama on his ties to Bill Ayers (a former, though currently unrepetant domestic terrorist) and Reverend Jeremiah Wright (a preacher who has delivered anti-American and anti-white sermons). But those attacks have largely backfired. Because they delivered them wrong, this is how McCain should have done it.
"The real issue here is not whether Senator Obama should have walked out of church during Reverend Wright's sermon, or whether he shouldn't have held a campaign fundraiser in Bill Ayers's living room. What matters is that these people support Obama. Why does Reverend Wright love Obama so much? Why did Bill Ayers launch Obama's political career in his living room. Why did Louis Farrakhan call Obama the messiah? Why did Jesse Jackson say Obama would take power away from "Zionists?" Because they want to drastically change this country. And that's what Senator Obama has been telling them he would do for the past two years. Change, change, change, change, change. Now I want change too, but the kind of change I want is more honesty in Washington. No more earmarks. No more partisan bickering holding up crucial legislation. But that's not the kind of change Wright, Ayers and Farrakhan want. Will they get what they want in an Obama Administration? I don't know. But they think they will. And that's why Barack Obama is too risky for America."
The real issue here is that we're slogging through an expensive, ill advised war while Americans lose jobs and homes and watch their retirement accounts and stock holdings go to hell. Right or wrong, that is why so many independent voters like me have become staunch Obama/Biden supporters (and for disclosure's sake, I'm also a donor).
ReplyDeleteThere is alot that Obama could have said better, particularly re: Palin and her secessionist husband, but all this stuff plays second fiddle to Americans' wallets and general feelings about where the country is going.
I thought of "What I Should Have Said Theater" when Obama was asked in the last debate whether Palin is capable of being president, and he kind of danced around the question and complimented her. Good points Damino
ReplyDeleteThis post is about campaign strategy not Presidential policies. I find it much more interesting (and much less divisive) to debate the strategies than the issues.
ReplyDeleteI understand and agree with you Paul. My point was that because times are so tough, many Americans are looking beyond the minutia of campaign strategies and are voting based on what's most critical to them.
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