Without addressing McCain's foibles, lets call them, accusing Obama of extremism, racism, corruption and or sleaze is just hypocrisy.
>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: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:259197 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
