Is Obama up for the GOP hate machine? I haven’t heard him do anything to counter-punch these attacks. He’s looking more and more like Kerry.
GOP memo calling immigration a “tar baby” (Politico)
… [McCain] has standing among Hispanics. Barrack Obama has not made the sale to Hispanic voters. Thus, this issue is a tar baby for anyone who touches it, with land mines everywhere.
Prince Frederic von Anhalt, aka Prince Von A-Hole, called Barack Obama’s wife a “washerwoman.” (TMZ)
Barack Obama’s camp wouldn’t respond to the video TMZ posted of Prince Frederick Von Anhalt trashing Barack’s wife.
Bush Compares Obama To Nazi Appeasers (Huff Post)
“We have heard this foolish delusion before,” Bush said in remarks to the Israeli Knesset. “As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American Senator declared: ’Lord, if only I could have talked to Hitler, all of this might have been avoided.’
Though Obama did respond to Bush’s comments:
“…George Bush knows that I have never supported engagement with terrorists, and the President’s extraordinary politicization of foreign policy and the politics of fear do nothing to secure the American people or our stalwart ally Israel.”and
Robert Gibbs, the communications director for Senator Barack Obama, called Mr. Bush’s remarks “astonishing” and an “unprecedented political attack on foreign soil.”
Look at how successful ignoring all the Osama/Obama remarks have done. When are Dem candidates going to learn they have to immediate attack back or lose the media war. Look at what Corker did to Ford in TN, and that is just a small taste of what is in store. Instead the only thing they have embraced is the GOP tactics of swiftboating, whisper campaigns, and misleading phone banking.
The media and GOP haven’t even begun their attacks yet. I personally am against having 8 more years of Clintons in the White House, but you have to admit she is vetted and able to handle and counter these attacks.
Front page
And yes
I don’t think a politician is smart to engage tabloid journalist covering Zsa Zsa husband’s comments, but he should stick up for his wife.
ok, i'll confess:
despite pledging to myself not to read anymore horserace or election posts (they are raising my blood pressure too much) your title totally caught my eye and made me laugh out loud.
short version of my opinion: no, the obama people aren’t ready for it. they have no idea what’s coming, they aren’t planning for it correctly, and they are completely underestimating the degree to which racism motivates the voters. sadly, i’m pretty sure obama understands all this. the problem is, as it is for most dem pols, the beltway/consultant class/media people who surround him. they live in a fantasy world, and have no idea about what is operative here in Flyover Land.
that's ok
It’s not really an election post, and I think it’s old news, I just mostly wrote it for the title.
I’m not in any camp anyways, they’ve all gone nuts. The key thing is that somehow they have all wrastled defeat from the jaws of victory.
I mean how is McCain winning in every projection???? How can the oldest man ever, the worst economy in a long time, the highest oil/gas ever, lowest dollar value, iraq war… etc.
How do these do-nothing Dems turn this into a nail biter with McCentury? I mean McCain looks like he is hissing on TV.. Come on?!!
Kerry-esque Response
I thought Obama’s response to Bush yesterday with his “sad”, “time to turn the page” and then denying specifically Bush’s charge sounded very much like John Kerry. It was long winded and took mostly a tut-tut attitude instead of hitting Bush back. I also didn’t think it was smart politically to deny democrats are appeasers by saying you want to return to the foreign policy of “JFK, Nixon and Reagan.” Basically, Bush is wrong about me and democrats and to prove it, I’m going to promise to go back to the foreign policy of two Republicans and a cold war democrat who has bee dead for more than 40 years.
Then add in his apparent effort to dismantle media 527s. And you have a candidate ripe for swiftboating.
If he thinks he can pull off with McCain what he has with Hillary, letting the media and misogyny do all his dirty work, he is sorely mistaken. I used to think that he was just playing politics when he claimed what a negative race Clinton had run and that he’d already shown he could take whatever is thrown at him. Now, I’m starting to worry they really believe that latter part.
But then what can I expect from a guy who is intent on bringing Tom Daschle back.
Huh?
I mean how is McCain winning in every projection????
He’s not, he just wins all projections against Sen Obama, against Sen Clinton he loses pretty badly.
See http://www.electoral-vote.com and http://hominidviews.com
(According to hominidviews Sen Obama picks up PA as of 5/15 and is much closer to McCain than he was)
Apparently Obama Is Planning
to hit back very hard today against Bush’s attack yesterday (via TPM). Is that an admission is first try was somewhat lame or is he just slow? The worst president in history called you (albeit indirectly) a terrorist appeasers. Hitting back hard immediately is Politics 101.
yup-even the attack is a rerun of 04--
it’s almost exactly what they used against Kerry back then.
everyone but O hit hard--
he didn’t.
Foreign Policy/Hawk stuff is going to kill him w/McCain as the opponent.
he's on TV live now, and
not at all hitting back—he’s dismissing it like he always dismisses attacks. And he’s talking Iraq instead of his stances on I/P.
It's like an electoral flashback
He’s Kerry Dukakis! A drone clone
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“A true friend stabs you from the front” -Oscar Wilde
totally, and
having Kerry all over tv as a surrogate yesterday just makes Obama look even more like him. We saw everyone but Obama yesterday, and today this weak stuff from him himself.
plus,
the audience didn’t boo Bush/McCain at all—his advance people did not do their job.
Based on every other poll
Look at the history of polls on Polster http://www.pollster.com/08presidentialpr…
Or look at any of the sites with Regression testing. Like http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/
At any rate McCain is probably winning.. And it’s too close to call for anything especially a huge number of swing states.
How can they boo?
His whole schtick is “post-partisanship”. If the crowd boos and he smiles or gives them a few seconds to let it all out then he’s a hypocrit and they bang him. If he waves them down and says something nice/respectable about Bush/McBush then they soundbite the hell out of him in the GE. Why even bother at that point?
Personally, I could live a long time without ever hearing the name St. Ronnie Reagan again. Especially coming from a Democrat.
Obama understands?
I don’t think that Obama gets it at all, CD.
If he did, he would not have run the primary the way he did. The GOP is now free to do all sorts of dog-whistling, because he allowed his surrogates and supporters to accuse the Clintons of dog-whistling when that wasn’t happening.
If Obama had answered like Biden it would have
increased his cojones credibility.
“That’s bullshit” was the money quote.
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“A true friend stabs you from the front” -Oscar Wilde
totally--instead he validated their attack
like a fool.
they boo Hillary's name all the time--
they should be booing every mention of Bush and McCain, but his crowds don’t.
it’s sad.
"This is America"--poorman
“… Everything is just like this. … yelling, yelling, yelling over everyone. And you can say what you want, and be as right as you want, but he’s going to keep yelling, and yelling, and yelling until you get sick of it, and at the end of the day everybody knows that Barack Obama goes to secret Muslim church. Everything is like this. An election won’t fix it. This rules the world. …” — http://thepoorman.net/2008/05/15/this-is…
And why isn’t Obama understanding this, and operating accordingly? He’s propagating their attacks and wholly validating them as legitimate.
and if he believes so strongly
in diplomacy over war and his judgment and new way of doing things, etc, he should have defended his stance instead of responding to and repeating tired, asinine accusations — and pointed out that Hamas is a democratically elected and legitimate government—unlike Bush’s owners the Saudis and many others. Or that Bush himself appeases and talks to terrorists and terror funders like Libya — and the Saudis — etc, and that removing our bases from Saudi Arabia was exactly appeasing those who funded 9/11 and other terrorists, and that the Saudis—not Iran—have been the bulk of those attacking us in Iraq too.
polls give McCain a 40pt lead on
“experience and knowledge of world affairs” over Obama.
http://www.slate.com/id/2191497/ — “… By pivoting from the economy to foreign affairs, each candidate thinks he has something to gain in the battle of temperaments. McCain looks to paint Obama as naive, appealing to the sentiment of voters who give the Republican higher marks on experience and knowledge of world affairs. As a recent ABC/Washington Post poll shows, McCain leads Obama by more than 40 points on those attributes. …”
You May Not Want
eight more years of Clinton in the White House but the fact is she’s the best of the three and it isn’t even close.
I’ll gladly take eight more years of Clinton. Competence and passion for sound progressive policy are more important than any other consideration.