But that's exactly the point. When you hold them to the same standard, the glow wears off Obama's halo. Obama has not been a known quantity. He ran his early campaign on the basic premise that he would be different, and it is starting to look to people like he isn't different. McCain, by contrast, is already a known quantity with a long voting record in the Senate, which is why issues like his minister matter less.
I'm not accusing Obama of anything, all I'm doing is giving you is my prediction of how people are going to process all of this information. I still like Obama, but he has a large and growing image problem with Wright and Ayers in particular. He needs to address it head on, concretely, in a way that reassures people about his love of the USA. Why is that such a big deal? He wants to be President. People want to know that he loves the country that he wants to govern, and they are starting to get nervous and think that maybe he doesn't really love the country that much. They want to know that he loves the whole country, not just liberal bastions like Chicago and San Francisco. The reason Obama can't win in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania has nothing to do with race and everything to do with class. Blue collars whites have started to see him as a liberal ivory tower elitist who doesn't understand them, who indeed looks down at them. Wright and Ayers just re-enforce that impression. Fair or not, Obama is getting painted with the John Kerry/Mike Dukakis brush. And it isn't even the Republicans doing it. The Clintons are doing the dirty work, as is their specialty. On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Larry L wrote: > Given that McCain's minister is the christian fundimentalist extremist > John Hagee, are you willing to apply the same criteria? Or does McCain get a > buy because he's the presumptive Republican nominee? Or that some of his > chief supporters have been under corruption investigations? Such as having > accepted more than $100,000 in donations from employees of Greenberg > Traurig, the very firm where Abramoff once reigned? > > In other words, if you're going to be accusing Obama of that sort of crap, > remember your Johnboy McCain is at least as corrupt if not more so - > remember the Keating Savings and Loan scandal in which McCain was a central > figure. > > At least Obama had the decency to look embarrassed. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;192386516;25150098;k Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:259177 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
