Are you still talking about Hagee? The guy has endorsed him, no more. Larry Lyons wrote: > 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: > > >
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