GOP's Image Of Obama Gains Traction

Politico: New McCain Ad Tries To Paint Democrat As A "Celebrity" Candidate

(The Politico)  This story was written by Carrie Budoff Brown.

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Barack Obama’s critics laid down the foundations of the strategy months ago: The Republican National Committee started the “Audacity Watch” back in April, and Karl Rove later fueled the attack by describing the first-term Illinois senator as “coolly arrogant.”

It wasn’t until the last week, however, that the narrative of Obama as a president-in-waiting - and perhaps getting impatient in that waiting - began reverberating beyond the e-mail inboxes of Washington operatives and journalists.

Perhaps one of the clearest indications emerged Tuesday from the world of late-night comedy, when David Letterman offered his “Top Ten Signs Barack Obama is Overconfident.” The examples included Obama proposing to change the name of Oklahoma to “Oklobama,” and measuring his head for Mount Rushmore.

“When Letterman is doing ‘Top Ten’ lists about something, it has officially entered the public consciousness,” said Dan Schnur, a political analyst with the University of Southern California and the communications director in John McCain’s 2000 campaign. “And it usually stays there for a long, long time.”

Following a nine-day, eight-country tour that carried the ambition and stagecraft of a presidential state visit, Obama has found himself in an unusual position: the butt of jokes.

Jon Stewart teased that the presumptive Democratic nominee traveled to Israel to visit his birthplace at Bethlehem’s Manger Square. New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd amplified the McCain campaign’s private nickname for Obama (“The One”).

And the snickers about Obama’s perceived smugness may have a very real political impact as McCain launched its most forceful effort yet to define him negatively. It released a TV ad Wednesday describing Obama as the “biggest celebrity in the world,” comparable to Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, stars who are famous for attitude rather than accomplishments. (Watch the ad)

The harsher treatment from comedians and columnists - coupled with the shift by McCain from attacking on policy to character issues - underscores the fine line that Obama is walking between confident and cocky. Once at pains to present himself as presidential, Obama now faces criticism for doing it too well.

“I was puzzled by this notion that somehow what we were doing was in any way different from what Senator McCain or a lot of presidential candidates have done in the past,” Obama said Sunday, speaking about his trip at a conference of minority journalists. “Now, I admit we did it really well. But that shouldn't be a strike against me.”

Obama and his supporters dismissed the line of attack as the latest desperate missive from a foundering Republican campaign.

Bloggers at the Huffington Post launched a backlash to the backlash against Obama’s overseas trip, arguing in part that he wouldn’t face such criticism of acting premature if he were white. Separately, the Obama campaign pushed back hard at journalists who used a report, which detailed Obama’s move to assemble a transition team, to describe him as presumptuous by pointing to an interview in which McCain had owned up to the same thing.

Some Democratic operatives described the narrative as a Beltway creation, the pastime of journalists looking to keep the presidential race competitive.

"Self-absorbed press speculation,” concluded consultant Bob Shrum, the chief strategist during John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign. “Most Americans are not paying the slightest bit of attention to this.”

Mark Mellman, a pollster for Kerry, said Obama acted the same when he was struggling last year against Clinton.

“The only people who are making him seem inevitable are the commentariat,” Mellman said. “He seemed this confident and self possessed when he was down 30 pints to Hillary Clinton. He is a confident and self possessed person.”

Republicans have long tried to turn his assuredness into a shortcoming. National party operatives began sending e-mails to reporters in the spring detailing some of Obama’s bolder moves, including using a faux presidential seal at a policy roundtable. The RNC rolled the headlines onto one site, “Barack Obama Audacity Watch,” that it unveiled Wednesday.

The McCain campaign piled on with its “Celeb” ad, which juxtaposed Obama’s speech to 200,000 people in Berlin with photos of Spears and Hilton.

“Do the American people want to elect the world’s biggest celebrity or do they want to elect an American hero?” asked Steve Schmidt, one of McCain’s top aides, on a conference call.

They stayed personal later in the day when responding to Obama’s suggestion at a Missouri town hall meeting that Republicans would use his unusual name and his race to paint him as a risky choice.

“This is a typically superfluous response from Barack Obama. Like most celebrities, he reacts to fair criticism with a mix of fussiness and hysteria,” McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said.

By later Wednesday, the Obama campaign responded within hours to the “Celeb” ad with one of its own, accusing McCain of taking the “low road” and “practicing the politics of the past.” (Watch the ad)

Responding to questions from reporters about McCain's ad, Obama said: “I do notice that he doesn’t seem to have anything to say very positive about himself.”

The strategy has very real potential dangers for Team McCain. Obama’s unmistakable charisma and his campaign’s deft brand of stagecraft have created an often lopsided contrast with McCain’s sometimes painful-to-watch public events. As presidents as diverse as Ronald Reagan and John Kennedy showed, Americans do like a touch of celebrity in their commander in chief; though not too much.

Obama’s steely sense of self-confidence, even destiny, is also one of the traits his supporters like most and which could, as the fall campaign heats up, be one of the qualities that help him make the sale.

But the slippery slope for Obama is allowing a McCain campaign that is searching for a consistent theme with which to attack him to latch on to a way of making him seem alien to ordinary Americans. Douglas Schoen, a Democratic pollster, argued that Obama was not yet in a danger zone, but he needed to pay heed to the gathering storm.

“My sense is that all of those attacks individually are frankly not particularly potent, but taken together, they are creating a narrative about Obama that is not helpful,” said Schoen, who worked on President Bill Clinton's 1996 reelection campaign. “It is a warning sign for Obama that he’s got to get back on the trail and make the case that there is a real contrast.”

[seah5]

Obama is so Vain

He wants to be a Super Star

He Wants to win the Popularity Contest.

He wants to be hot and all dat''

Mr Hollywood using Politics to make it to The stars.

[briannorwood]

Karl Rove later fueled the attack by describing the first-term Illinois senator as %u201Ccoolly arrogant.%u201D

Why doesn''t the GOP just come out and say what they are really trying to do. That is, paint Obama as an "Uppity N--ger".

We know how their playbook goes. Use code words to scare the under-educated, lower-class white folks and roil their just-below-the-surface racism.

It is sickening!

[samthetvcat]

---%u201CTop Ten Signs Barack Obama is Overconfident.%u201D---

LOL I''m skeptical of that CNN poll which shows that people find Barack and McCain equally arrogant. Maybe if the pollster had asked whether people think Barack comes across as presumptuous the results would be very different (?)

Because sometimes the GOPigs use the word ''arrogant'' in a way that makes them sound like they''re complaining that he''s ''uppity'' which he''s not.

I think if the GOP strategy is to show that Barack becomes a different person who is dismissive of the ''little people'' once he doesn''t need them any more that would be one thing. But if they''re trying to play the race card, that''s something totally different. Very fine line - which is it they''re trying to play?

Also, they''re economic platform really sucks. Without showing understanding of the everyday concerns of people does anybody even care that Barack''s presumptuous and dismissive (?)

[ddaryl1]

weird...

but the people in this country do have their heads up their ***** most of the time.

If only more Americans could actually think for themselves instead of being easily swayed by media quotes and perceptions. But the fact is they are easily manipulated and you have to give the GOP credit for being great mass manipulators.

[zerato-2009]

Let me get this straight, the republican strategy is to paint obama as popular, confident, intelligent and competent. Sounds like a winner to me. (rolleyes)

[lochlan-2009]

Well, they should know all about celebrity candidates, with Reagan and Schwarzenegger, but who''s keeping track anyway, certainly not the bootlickers.

[erichsh]

If only more Americans could actually think for themselves instead of being easily swayed by media quotes and perceptions.
Posted by ddaryl1

Actually, they are. That''s why McCain is making progress in the polls despite the nauseating, slobbering attention lavished on him by the MSM.

[micma-2009]

McSame is getting desperate and turning to the dirty tactics of spin an smear that his buddy Bush used. Americans are tired of this.

It''s time for a real national discussion of the issues that Americans care about. We don''t give a rat''s @ss about flag pins. We want to be able to afford a decent life, health care, and education.

[cbk16]

The Paris Hilton comparison is valid. What has Obama accomplished except being a Celebrity? He is a one time senator that has spent all he time in the senate running for president. He has no legislative accomplishments. His two policy stances that come to mind haven''t seemed too appealing, he was against the surge, (the surge ended the Iraq war) and he is against drilling. (Drilling will help the ecomomy fix the $4 gas problem.) He does look good, and speaks like a rock star. However rock stars don''t solve problems.

[erichsh]

Why doesn''''t the GOP just come out and say what they are really trying to do. That is, paint Obama as an "Uppity N--ger".
It is sickening!

Posted by briannorwood

No, Brian, it is exclusively YOUR side that keeps accusing Republicans of that. Obama plays the same game - any day now, real soon now, those dirty Repug basstards are gonna call me a nig***.

[ramos937]

Obama is missing a bet by now responding to the Celeb ad with humor or ridicude.

I am glad McCain showed the Berlin thousands who came to wish Obama well and hear his speech. Contrast that with the many times Bush was greeted with riots and demonstrations worldwide. Contrast that with McCain''s overseas visits where his staff has to beg for coverage. Look for McCain to have more senior staff turnovers.

[micma-2009]

OBAMA VS McCAIN


1) Over 70% of our National Debt was created by just 3 Republican presidents.

2) Real middle class wage growth is double when a Democrat is president compared to when a Republican is president.

3) 90% of Americans would pay less taxes under Obama''s proposed tax plan compared to McCain''s.

Countless millions of Americans vote Republican because they believe they''ll pay less taxes and that they''ll have their money spent more responsibly. As you can see, those beliefs are directly contradicted by the facts. Of course we can choose to ignore the facts and instead focus on which candidate is wearing a flag pin (you ever notice that McCain doesn''t wear them?

[tonyd_31]

McSame is getting desperate and turning to the dirty tactics of spin an smear that his buddy Bush used. Americans are tired of this.

Posted by micma

The Repub machine can try all the smear and negativity they can muster but it will not do any good. The American people are too smart and too battle weary (Bush''s last 8 tragic years) to fall for their ***. Just 3 more months and we will be at the "End of An Error"

[hasher471]

What has Obama accomplished except being a Celebrity? Posted by cbk16 at 09:52 AM : Jul 31, 2008
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Starting with his work as a state senator -
HEALTH CARE and PUBIC HEALTH" 233 bills.
2003: A number of measure that would extend health care converage for those just above the federal poverty line.
2004: A bill that would establish a commission to develop a plan for providing universal health care in Illinois.
2005: A bill that would permit embryonic stem cell reserch. - bill voted on after Obama left office.
POVETY and PUBLIC ASSISTANCE: 125 Bills
1997: Abill that would initate a long-term study about welfare success rates, making the information available to universities and research institution.
1999: A bill that would provide job skills training for recipients of federal aid [to get them off the dole]
CRIME: 112 bills
1997:A bill that would establish a program to help juvenile offenders re-integrate into the community.
2003: A bill that would require police to videtape interrogation and criminal suspects.
continued

[hasher471]

CIVIL RIGHTS: 60 bills
2003: A bill that would initate a study of the race of people stopped for traffic violations.
2003: A bill that would allow officers to stop cars for seat belt violation.
2005: A bill that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation - Voted on after Obama left office.
ETHICS: 21 bills
1998: A bill that would ban nearly all gifts by lobbyists and barred the personal use of campaign money.
2003: A bill that would add state inspectors to investigate ethics violations.
ENVIONMENT: 20 bills
2005: A bill that would require utilities to purchase a portion of their energy from renewable resources - voted on after Obama left office.
GUN CONTROL: 15 bills
2001: A bill that would require applicants for a firearm identification card to meet with a law enforcement officer as part of the [background check] - bill failed.
IMMIGRATION: 1 bill
2003: A bill that would create an office of immigrant assistance to provide education and outreach serves.

[micma-2009]

McSame is not even in the same league as Obama. When these two are put side by side in a debate, the difference will be glaringly clear. McSame is just another Bush lost without his talking points.

This country can''t take another Bush term. We don''t need McSame.

Let''s vote for CHANGE.

[hasher471]

Obama as an "Uppity N--ger".
Posted by briannorwood
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A white guy presents himself like Obama he''''d be considered smart, self assured and confident.
Let a black guy do it and he''''s considered arrogant.

p.s You''re an ignorant racist :-)

[tonyd_31]

It''''s not the GOP''''s image of Obama, it''''s the truth. Obama is an empty suit, tightly controlled by people behind the scenes. He''''s a puppet.

Posted by ddhinnyc


If Obama is an empty suit (even though he is intelligent, thoughtful and articulate) then what in the world was Ronald Reagan and GWB? I would say that they were "Oxygen Thieves". Repubs wrote the book on putting "Empty Suits" in office.

[vastr-wcon]

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Given the loony-left liberal media''s ALL-HUSSEIN, ALL-THE-TIME propaganda, one gets the impression that it is a one-person contest. Obviously, that is the only way a Kerry-like shallow, arrogant, platitude-spouting, inexperienced, elitist, narcissistic, flip-flopping gas-bag, who is so mentally deficient from extensive drug use he even has to plagiarize his hollow platitudes, could win an honest election.

Unfortunately, the loony-left liberal media will continue to treat hussein as if he has already been elected/appointed president -- showing that they have now fully and completely abandoned all journalistic ethics and will do anything to ensure victory for TheOne.

Sorry, hussein sycophants of the liberal media - but everybody can see right through this sham. Just as the simple-minded got bored with the over-exposure of Hilton and Spears, so too will they soon tire of the hussein hype. (The parallels between these three are overwhelming - e.g. both Hilton and Spears have created as much useful legislation as hussein; all three have the same level of foreign policy expertise; they are equally shallow and self-absorbed; they are equally experienced drug users; and so on, and so on, ad nauseam.)

/

[hasher471]

Drilling will help the ecomomy fix the $4 gas problem.
Posted by cbk16
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Ok let''s review for about the 100th time.

Big Oil has 41 million leased offshore acres.
Only 19.8% are in production.
That leaves approx. 32 MILLION acres to explore, drill, and bring into production.
These lease acres DO NOT have a moratorium on them.
Write and ask your Congressman or woman why Big Oil is NOT developing already existing leases.

It is false to says it%u2019s Congress or Democrats or Environmentalists are preventing drilling.
Nobody is stopping Big Oil from drilling. Let %u2018em drill!

[micma-2009]

Of course McSame has to lie about and smear Obama. McSame has nothing to offer Americans but more of Bush''s failed policies.

[hasher471]

THIS IS JUST ONE OIL COMPANY

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Exxon Mobil once again reported the largest quarterly profit in U.S. history Thursday, posting net income of $11.68 billion on revenue of $138 billion in the second quarter.
%u2026
The big international oil companies have been criticized for plowing much of their profits back into stock buybacks and other programs to benefit shareholders, as opposed to exploring for more oil which could bring down the price of crude for everyone.
Critics charge the oil companies with deliberately restricting production in an attempt to keep prices high. %u2026
%u2026.Presumptive Democratic nominee BARACKOBAMA wants to tax oil companies at a special rate every time crude goes over $80 a barrel.
Most plans would either use this newfound tax money to fund investments in renewable energy, or give it to low income Americans struggling with high energy prices.
But so far those efforts have been BLOCKED %u2013 MAINLY BY REPUBLICANS %u2026
Ref: Exxon posts new profit record
World''s largest publicly traded oil firm makes $11.68 billion in the quarter, but misses forecasts. 7/31/08
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/31/news/companies/exxon_profits/index.htm?cnn=yes

[tonyd_31]

The fact is, Obama is dodging McCain left and right.
Obama is a girly man. He is a metrosexual who cannot pull off acting like a man. This is going to hurt him in November. Real Americans don''''t want a womany male president.

Posted by ddhinnyc

Wow, if you really believe that Obama is intimidated by McSame, I have this wonderful bridge in Brooklyn that I would like to sell you for a few hundred dollars.... You nutty folks should not think that the American people are as foggy minded and confused as you neocons are obviously are.

[omega39-2009]

From The LA Times:

A Center for Media and Public Affairs study found that, over the last six weeks, the major news networks have expressed proportionately more negative assessments of Obama than McCain.

So much for the "liberal" media.

[cbs4me3]

Long, long overdue. While I have been adamant about his shortcomings, these stay confined to me. Now through the public media, we can expose his shortcomings through the humor of Letterman, Leno, Stewart and indeed the newspaper columnists. One comic strip also has begun, what I call the "vetting" of Obama. Long, long overdue.

[micma-2009]

If John McSame was honest with the American people, his campaign platform would be:

"Let''s stay the course that Bush has set. All my friends are getting rich off of this war and 4 dollar gas."

[wellhell3]

Obscamma created this image himself by trying to scam you with goofball ***** like hiring rock bands to get people to come to his rallys and make it look like support! Talk about bait and switch!

His campaign has been nothing but a used car sales pitch! It''s like the more he lies, evades, scams, and puts on that smirking chimp smile...the more the gullible and stupid vote goes for it!

It''s also called a shill! You get the product home, and then find out you should''ve bought the real deal!

[zerato-2009]

MAO and Obamie is already playing the RACE card,

Posted by airmanc5

So show me where obama is now using the "race card"

[dnsallday]

I guess if the worst things you can find to say about your opponent is that you are popular, people really like and respect you and that you are self assured and have self respect, then I think we have a chance of actually ending up with a President who actually cares about America and the people.
Rather than the Republicons who seem to take some kind of perverse pride in raping the American Middle Class and robbing our Country blind.

[hasher471]

The fact is, Obama is dodging McCain left and right.

Posted by ddhinnyc
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Why should OBAMA engaged in these rinky dink townhall meeting of 300 people when he a address thousand of people. Remember, OBAMA is the unknown guy in this race. He has to get his message out.

Don''t fear though. There are, at least, scheduled debates between OBAMA and Mc Cain.

[briannorwood]

ddhinnyc:

I certainly wouldn''t hire the one who should have already retired by now!

[tonyd_31]

Um...Tony
? It''''s already hurting Obama. Did you not read the CBS headline above?

Because of David Letterman''s "Top Ten" list? I have to laugh as you clowns are so desperate that you are grasping at straws. :) I guess you didn''t read last weeks''s editorial how McSame is confused. First he wanted Obama to go on the World Stage and when Obama did then how he is jealous about the coverage Obama received and then he said Obama should not be on a foreign trip but here where the Americans have real problems. McSame is doing a wonderful job. So good in fact, that he is going to help Obama win. :)

[micma-2009]

So now McSame is stooping to the same old dirty politicing that his buddy Bush is famous for.

Americans are ready for a CHANGE.

The working people of this country can''t handle another term of Bush''s failed policies.

[omega39-2009]

If you were the CEO of a large corporation and you were hiring and got two resumes:

One with no experience
One with a long history of experience

Which would you choose?

Posted by ddhinnyc

If I was today''s on the go CEO I would hire the guy with no experience so I could pay him much less. Remember last year when Circuit City laid off all of their older, more experienced and better payed employees?

[concerns47]

Rice has not accomplished one major thing in her years with Bush, she is a token and so Obama is trying not to be a token president by inspiring people into a dazed and dreamy state, like being hypnotized when you wake up after the elections and see that the backdoor taxes cut into the middle-class tax break you will realize you were hypnotized into voting for just another politician.

Vote third party as a protest, they both are the same and that is why they are so close in the polls, neither one can gather enough to move into double digit leads in the national polls.

[downsteamjim]

We must first reinstate the fairness doctrine and deny license to any station that carries Limbaugh or similar programming. Next we should jail anyone who denies the Messiah Obama.

[hasher471]

Mc Cain''s "experience"

KEATING FIVE: Corruption allegations
Gray testified that several U.S. senators had approached him and requested that he ease off on the Lincoln investigation. These senators had been beneficiaries of $300,000 (collective total) in campaign contributions from Keating. McCain received $112,000 by 1987 from Keating and Keating''''s relatives and employees to McCain''''s Senate campaign, more than any of the other Senators. The Arizona Republic reported that in addition to campaign contributions, McCain''''s wife and her father had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986 The paper also reported that the McCains, sometimes accompanied by their daughter and baby-sitter, had made at least nine trips at Keating''''s expense. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating''''s opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay. McCain also did not pay Keating for some of the trips until years after they were taken, after he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln. [3] Lincoln Savings and Loan''''s collapse is said to have cost taxpayers $3.4 billion [4].

The ethics committee''''s investigation focused on five senators: Alan Cranston (D-CA); Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ); John Glenn (D-OH); John McCain (R-AZ); and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI), who became known as the "Keating Five".

[micma-2009]

John McSame is running on the failed policies of the worst President in history.

No wonder he''s having to smear Obama. He''s got nothing to offer the American people but another disastrous Bush term.

[peterp111]

Exactly, DD- that is the real question. The other thing is the only one bringing up the "race" card is Obama and the Democrats, and they spin it around blaming McCain for their own insecurities. The Democrats, including Congress, have not produced any tangible results in along time inspite of their promises, which does not mean they can''t, it just means their record is tarnished, too. Supporting a Democrat is a blind ambition, one which can have negative consequences, one that in spite of the "change" everyone speaks of, can be even more unsuccessful and disappointing with an inexperianced and unqualified leader. Think about it.

[hasher471]

McCain''s "experience", the early years:

1954: Can''''t get into Naval Academy. Daddy gets him in.
1958: Graduates in the lower 10% of his class.
1960: Graduated flight school where he earned a reputation as a "party man".
Stationed abroad the USS Intrepid and USS Enterprise where he crashed twice and once collided with power lines.
1965: Marries Carol Shepp, who he will eventually cheat on and leave when she is badly scarred in an automobile accident.
1967: Assigned to the USS Forrestal where he cause an accident killing 134 sailors.
1967: Out of cowboyish stubborness, disobeyed orders resulting in him getting shot down, beaten, and sent to a POW camp
1968: VC realize he is the son of the Commander US Forces in VietNam and provide "preferential treatment
1969-1972: Makes propaganda films for NVC.
1969: His wife suffers crippling/disfiguring accident. She does not tell McCain because she does not want him to worry.
1973: Released from POW camp.
1979: McCain meet Cindy Lou Hensley. McCain starts an affair with Ms Cindy Hensley. McCain leaves wife.
1980: McCain divorces his wife of fifteen years.
1980: McCain marries Cindy Hensley.
1980 to Present: been sucking off of Uncle Sam%u2019s and Cindy%u2019s T I T ever since

Says a lot about Mc Cain''s experience and character.

[ersheido]

It''s very obvious that the McCain campaign is getting desperate. They have nothing good to say about McCain himself, his voting record, or his judgement so they resort to attack ads that will, hopefully, hurt them in the future. The Independent-McCain of 2000 is dead! The Bush-McCain is now running.

[michaellhays]

Speaking of Obama as presumptuous is code talk for saying that he is "uppity," and we all know who the "uppity" are--right? All those comedians and columnists now talking up his self-confidence as presumptuous are disclosing their racism.

[omega39-2009]

We must first reinstate the fairness doctrine and deny license to any station that carries Limbaugh or similar programming.

Posted by downsteamjim

God forbid you automatons get both sides of an issue and have to personally consider them before you form an opinion.

[erichsh]

So show me where obama is now using the "race card"

Posted by zerato at 10:11 AM

Go to Drudge, right now, for your proof! Links to an article where Obama is once again portraying himself as the victim of all them basstard Repugs saying he "looks different" yadayada.... BS. Obama is playing the race card, trying to gain sympathy from non-existent Republican "attacks".

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080731/D928PB3O0.html

[arakaczky]

It''s a shame that John McCain has so little to sell himself on that he has to smear his opponent. His tactics are getting a little down in the gutter and it''s becoming tiresome. Why doesn''t he stick to the issues? for that matter, why don''t the both of them pick a position on something and stick to it. Both are getting as slippery as eels. Both are deterioriating into run-of-the-mill pols of the old school.

[micma-2009]

OBAMA VS McCAIN


1) Over 70% of our National Debt was created by just 3 Republican presidents.

2) Real middle class wage growth is double when a Democrat is president compared to when a Republican is president.

3) 90% of Americans would pay less taxes under Obama''s proposed tax plan compared to McCain''s.

Countless millions of Americans vote Republican because they believe they''ll pay less taxes and that they''ll have their money spent more responsibly. As you can see, those beliefs are directly contradicted by the facts. Of course we can choose to ignore the facts and instead focus on which candidate is wearing a flag pin (you ever notice that McCain doesn''t wear them?

[zerato-2009]

If you were the CEO of a large corporation and you were hiring and got two resumes:

One with no experience
One with a long history of experience


Which would you choose?

Posted by ddhinnyc

If you were the CEO of a large corporation and you were hiring and got two resumes:

A dynamic and charismatic leader with great communication skills and a thorough intellect.
A 72 year old company man that adheres to the same policies of the current ceo
Which would you choose?

[michaellhays]

Speaking of Obama as presumptuous is code talk for saying that he is "uppity," and we all know who the "uppity" are--right? All those comedians and columnists now talking up his self-confidence as presumptuous are disclosing their racism.

[erichsh]

We must first reinstate the fairness doctrine and deny license to any station that carries Limbaugh or similar programming.

Posted by downsteamjim

Ban Republican talk radio - yeah, that''s "fair", sure, sure.

[tonyd_31]

A Liberal who is now in favor of age discrimination? Do you see now why you Liberals are not taken seriously?


Posted by ddhinnyc

I just want to tell you with your silly posts, that you are not seriously taken. Go to bed and then get up and try again. :)