Making McCain Look Small
I thought the Obama Show tonight was pretty well done. Who knows how many undecided voters actually tuned in to watch it, but those who did had to have noticed the contrast between the Obama campaign and that of his opponent. Obama's campaign is clearly about big issues. Whether or not you agree with his policies or think he'll be able to do what he says, his campaign is quite clearly about making life better for the American people. It's about health care and jobs and education and the economy.
And what was McCain's campaign about today? He and his running mate spent the whole day calling on the LA Times to release a video tape of a farewell party that Obama attended for a Palestinian professor at the University of Chicago in 2003.
That contrast pretty much sums up this entire election. Obama is talking about big things. McCain is talking about very small things. As Obama is fond of saying:
And what was McCain's campaign about today? He and his running mate spent the whole day calling on the LA Times to release a video tape of a farewell party that Obama attended for a Palestinian professor at the University of Chicago in 2003.
That contrast pretty much sums up this entire election. Obama is talking about big things. McCain is talking about very small things. As Obama is fond of saying:
If you can't beat your opponent's ideas, you distort those ideas and maybe make some up. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run away from. You make a big election about small things.
posted by A.L. at 8:36 PM
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Obama put together a powerful, policy-driven ad that never once mentioned McCain or Bush. Unlike his opponent, Obama has real meat to his plan and doesn't have to build a campaign built just around the other guy.
I really am sad for those people who cannot see the clear difference in the two campaigns. John McCain has run a disrespectful, disgraceful, and down right embarrassing campaign.
Lot of comment on the net and in the papers that "the infomercial won't change anything".
But the main point IS the number of comments. They consume a news cycle and might even give Obama a minor convention-type surge. That means McCain cannot surge over the same period. And then the clock is down to 4 days, with a 5 to 6% gap to bridge (not counting Obama's GOTV efforts).
Even so, change or no change, I think the infomerical was great.
Of course there is a clear difference between McCain and Obama, but there was also a clear difference between Hitler and Stalin. Obama will be better than McCain in countless ways, but hundreds of thousands of innocent people (yup, people outside of the US are humans too; amazing, I know) will die because of him. That is inexcusable.
Lot of comment on the net and in the papers that "the infomercial won't change anything".
Of course, if you are Obama, you are quite happy with nothing changing for the next five days.
WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND is this: McCain is, arguably, a more qualified candidate than Obama, a war hero, a bipartisan, get's things done, etc.
WHY DON'T RIGHT-WING PUNDITS EVER MAKE THESE RATIONAL ARGUMENTS why we should vote for McCain. Instead, Hannity, Hewitt, Gallagher, Praegar, etc., only make these INSANE arguments about Obama attending a party for a college professor of Palestinian ancestry; arguments that are totally unconvincing; whereas arguments about McCain being more experienced, bipartisan, etc., would be far more convincing. Why do the right-wingers insist solely on making the crazy, unconvincing arguments?????????
Doesn't Mike Gallagher know that everyone hates McCain because of him??? Is he secretly a democrat???
"....hundreds of thousands of innocent people (yup, people outside of the US are humans too; amazing, I know) will die because of [Obama]. "
McCain is already responsible for hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi innocents in the war he sponsored. He never took any responsibility for his support of the war, he only started criticizing it when it was an obvious disaster. It was McCain who said the US would be greeted as "liberators". The surge, a dubious success, is supposed to erase that stain.
With an erratic, belligerent wannabe War President like McCain in charge, what other countries would suffer?
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