08/20/2008
Obama Gets Tougher, Appears to Address Dem Anxiety
The New York Times reports that Barack Obama, is beginning to hit back harder following what most consider to be a poor showing at the Saddleback Church forum, targeting McCain's definition of rich (as having over $5 million) and putting in contrast his own economic plan:
"Mr. Obama, whose candidacy has been built in part on a promise to transcend traditional politics, is running the negative commercials on local stations even as he runs generally positive spots nationally, during prime-time coverage of the Olympics. The negative spots reflect the sharper tone Mr. Obama has struck in recent days on the stump as he heads into his party’s nominating convention in Denver next week, and seem to address the anxiety among some Democrats that Mr. Obama has not answered a volley of attacks by Mr. McCain with enough force. 'If you can go quietly negative, that’s what he’s done; I think the perception is that he’s still running the positive campaign,' said Evan Tracey, president of the Campaign Media Analysis Group of TNS Media Intelligence, which monitors political advertising. 'It’s a pretty smart, high-low, good cop/bad cop strategy.'"
One of Obama's recent appearances at an Albuquerque, New Mexico town hall and an ad that's running in local markets in battleground states, according to the Jed Report, AFTER THE JUMP...
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He can get as tough as he likes. It won't change my mind. I won't vote for him partly because of the bisexual double standard that liberals propagate. We gay and bi men aren't the "hot bi babes", don't forget. We don't serve their patriarchal, masturbatory interests in the way the "hot bi babes" do.
The one thing you need to understand about liberalism is this: it's a movement driven by male heterosexual fantasy rather than intellectual consistency. Once you understand this, nothing more need be said.
Posted by: jason | Aug 20, 2008 9:28:05 AM
He's going to win.
Posted by: FASTLAD | Aug 20, 2008 9:38:16 AM
(Jason it doesn't sound like you have a mind left to change).
Posted by: FASTLAD | Aug 20, 2008 9:40:02 AM
"Once you understand this, nothing more need be said."
We understand, we understand! (Since you make the same inane comment on every thread, we've had ample opportunity to get it.) Now please keep your promise.
Posted by: Ernie | Aug 20, 2008 9:50:14 AM
If Americans ARE STUPID enough to Vote for McCain...then America DESERVES ALL the ILLS that come with him!!! McCain winning WILL be the Further Demise of America for ALL the world to see.
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Posted by: Disgusted American | Aug 20, 2008 10:00:11 AM
Ironic that Obama rails against the selfish rich while the presumptive Democratic nominee is a millionaire and yet his brother is living on $1 a month in a shanty shack in Nigeria: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/barackobama/2590614/Barack-Obamas-lost-brother-found-in-Kenya.html
What a hypocrite Obama is for abandoning his brother to poverty while he lives the high life claiming to care about the poor of the world -- except for his brother, apparently.
Posted by: ANOTHERDEMOCRATICIDIOT | Aug 20, 2008 10:09:04 AM
The campaign should also nail McCain his "cross in the dirt" claim lifted from Solzhenitsyn. (Apparently he no longer can tell the difference between things that happened to him and things he read in books.)
It's not as if the press gave Hilary a pass on her Bosnian sniper claims, did they?
But then we can't say anything bad about McCain: he's a war hero!
Posted by: Kevinvt | Aug 20, 2008 10:15:23 AM
ANOTHERDEMOCRATICIDIOT, at least you recognize your idiocy by stating it in your moniker. Now, what about Cindy McCain's half sister living in Phoenix and completely ignored by lovely Cindy, who always refers to herself as an "only child"? And of course she was screwing McCain while he was still married to his first wife, who had his children, all of whom are ignored thanks to the divorce engineered by his good and sleazy fellow war hero attorney. At least Obama acknowledges his extended family. Perhaps his brother is living the life he wants to live and perhaps Obama offered help and it was declined? You constantly make a lot of hateful assumptions and are no more a Democrat, idiot or otherwise than McCain is a progressive. So unless you have something more relevant, bugger off.
Posted by: Bob R | Aug 20, 2008 10:22:02 AM
Barack Obama doesn't care about gay people.
Posted by: daveynyc | Aug 20, 2008 10:36:12 AM
Bob R.:
Your obsession with whom John McCain was screwing 30 years ago drips with the sex panic and sex hysteria of that sex phobic Pam Spaulding who gets her panties in a bunch everytime someone has an affair or taps his toe in a toilet stall. Many of you democrats are getting as uptight, judgmental and self-righteous about the private sex lives of people as those on the religious right.
It's disgusting to see Democrats adopt the same values of Republicans -- as Obama is doing in his bid for power by condemning gay marriage as not in accordance with his good Christian values which purportedly allows God in the mix only for straight marriages.
Try coming out of the political closet and vote for the Green Party which actually supports full LGBTQ equality, and get over your delusions that the Democrats give a rat's ass about us.
Posted by: ANOTHERDEMOCRATICIDIOT | Aug 20, 2008 10:36:51 AM
Yes, everyone PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE vote for the Green Party and hand John McCain the presidency on a silver platter.
Now, who's the idiot?
Posted by: John in Manhattan | Aug 20, 2008 10:46:12 AM
"Now, who's the idiot?"
Gay people who stay in the closet out of expediency rather than remaining true to themselves are idiots; gay people who vote for homophobic candidates such as Obama out of expendiency rather than remaining true to themselves are idiots.
Be true to yourself, vote your conscience, and damn the consequences. When the Democratic Party gets sick of losing without our support, then maybe it finally will embrace the LGBTQ community as equal-class citizens.
Get out of your political closests and get some balls!
Posted by: Anotherdemocraticidiot | Aug 20, 2008 10:52:38 AM
i don't think anyone gives a flying fuck if mcbush is rich... hell, we all want to be rich... we idolize rich people... we watch the academy awards (or any awards show) where millionaires strut their stuff on the red carpet... america has always been about you can get rich too...
Posted by: the queen | Aug 20, 2008 10:59:11 AM
Another Democratic Idiot, it's interesting that you totally ignored Bob R.'s point about Cindy McCain's sister. How convenient to ignore a point when it totally slams yours down.
And let's not forget that at least Obama earned his money by working all his life for it, whereas McCain married into a good chunk of his riches.
Posted by: Donny B | Aug 20, 2008 11:02:49 AM
Lectured.
About coming out of the closet.
By a troll.
Who changes screen names more often than he changes his underwear.
Uh huh.
Posted by: 24play | Aug 20, 2008 11:08:43 AM
Donny B:
So both Cindy McCain & Barack Obama are selfish millionaires who don't give a rat's ass about their immediate family members living in poverty. I agree: there is little difference between Republicans and Democrats. That's why I'm voting Green.
Posted by: ANOTHERDEMOCRATICIDIOT | Aug 20, 2008 11:09:34 AM
It didn't take that 24PLAY troll long to come out of his cave this morning. Another dollar from the Obama campaign for your post, 24PLAY? Go ahead and vote for your homophobic Christianist Obama, 24PLAY, it obviously says a lot about you.
Posted by: ANOTHERDEMOCRATICIDIOT | Aug 20, 2008 11:12:02 AM
I still think it's more important to concentrate on the House and Senate regardless of who becomes president. Any chance of repealing DADT and DOMA reside there. If McCain is elected they can be tied to war funding if need be.
Posted by: anon | Aug 20, 2008 11:21:04 AM
ANOTHERDEMOCRATICIDIOT:
Your passion for staying true to your principles is admirable, there's no denying that. But I think what you fail to realize is that there are real, major, very dangerous differences between McCain and Obama, and to most liberals those differences are important enough to look past Obama's very common opposition to federally-mandated, nationwide, instant legal gay marriage.
The most important of these is the 150,000 troops in harms way fighting in a completely imaginary front in the war on terror. One candidate wants to bring most of them home and send the rest to the real war on terror on the Afghani/Paki border, one wants to keep them right where they are.
Should John McCain win, thanks in part to your efforts, Roe v Wade will probably be overturned before his first term is up. Let's face it, Justice Stevens is running on empty. Do I really need to debate the consequences of that with a fellow liberal? Isn't that alone worth doing everything in your power to get a Dem in the White House??
Why would you work so hard for something with such obvious, serious consequences for the advancement of your own ideology and vision for the country?
Posted by: JeffRob | Aug 20, 2008 11:50:32 AM
sorry, anotherdemocraticidiot, 24play has been a regular contributor to the comments on this website certainly longer than you have. you don't get to accuse him of being a troll.
Posted by: Sami | Aug 20, 2008 12:04:31 PM
SAMI:
The reason why 24PLAY is a troll is because he never offers any substantive detail in his postings but resorts merely to gratuitous attacks against anyone who dares challenge the fact that the Emperor a/k/a Obama has no clothes. I understand that Obama has some good points -- as does McCain for that matter -- but when posters such as 24PLAY respond to any criticism of Obama with knee-jerk invective then it seems clear he is little more than a tool for the Obama campaign.
JEFFROB:
My problem with the Democratic promise to get us out of Iraq is that I do not believe it. We voted in a Democratic Congress upon their promise to get us out of Iraq but instead -- with their power of the purse -- they continued to fund the war. I do not believe for a moment that if Obama becomes President he will get us out of Iraq. If the LGBTQ community -- and others -- generally want progressive change, then we all have to stand together to vote for our principles rather than settling for second best. The Democrats have had control over the Presidency with Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, control over the Congress for decades, and even for a brief while had control over both the Congress and the Presidency: And what the heck did we get from Democratic power except for DADT and DOMA?
Posted by: anotherdemocraticidiot | Aug 20, 2008 12:39:43 PM
Time to put the troll on a diet, people.
Posted by: 24play | Aug 20, 2008 12:45:48 PM
24PLAY probably supports the warehouse prison the DNC has built in Denver for those protesting the coronation of the Emperor next week. The Obama response to dissent: jail them! As Obama supporter 24PLAY implores: let there be no dissent!
Posted by: ANOTHERDEMOCRATICIDIOT | Aug 20, 2008 12:51:15 PM
I absolutely love how Democrats love to run to the abortion issue. Oh My God, they'll take away our rights!!!
First, the Supreme Court gets to choose every year which cases they will and will not hear. Even with these extremely conservative administration the court has not chosen to hear cases directly related the establishment of Roe V. Wade. I realize some may disagree over the issue of partial birth abortion but I saw that case as more of a establishment of guideline to Roe than a restriction.
Currently the court is made up in a more liberal framework. Anyone who debates that point right now is woefully out of touch with current decisions or so far to the left that they are considered the "kook base" anyway.
Any President who tries to put forth a candidate for the Supreme Court is facing a tremendous uphill battle due to the restrictions of the confirmation process through Congress. As we have seen the Democrats have done a tremendous job of blocking Bush's nominations for Federal courts over the past six years.
Even IF John McCain were to be President I hardly see him moving so far to the right in a court selection that he would be able to get TWO judges through that would overturn Row V, Wade.
The court also has a general history of not restricting existing established rights in general in overturning previous decisions. It's more likely to overturn restricting laws like the sodomy laws than anything else...I'm talking in a overall arc not just the last 8 years.
So can we just stop with the abortion hysterics? It's tiring and overused thus taking away its effectiveness as a issue.
Posted by: Las Vegas | Aug 20, 2008 12:54:55 PM
...and I might also add that after hearing Mr. Obama's thoughts on gay marriage and his Christian values the Democrats may seriously want to think about HIS stance on abortion. Mr. Obama doesn't really believe in marriage as an option because it goes against his moral beliefs. His easy way out was civil unions because it makes it easier for him to reconcile his moral beliefs against governmental responsibility. You don't get that option with abortion at all...it's too black and white...either you allow to kill the unborn or you don't. I don't see too many Christians out there supporting Planned Parenthood and I certainly don't see a history of Mr. Odama's record of support. Don't take his views at face value just because there is a (D) next to his name.
Posted by: Las Vegas | Aug 20, 2008 1:03:00 PM