Still its a matter of hypocrisy, if you are criticizing Obama for his association with his pastor, then it follows that you ought to be slamming McCain for his nut job pastor. Otherwise you're just being hypocritical.
> 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:259275 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
