VP Barry Hussein Obama, R.
GAAAAAAAAAACK!
Posted on 04/20/2008 7:30:52 PM PDT by Jean S
In a slip-up that could potentially have general election and primary ramifications, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Sunday said Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) would be a better president than George W. Bush.
Much of the Democratic strategy against McCain has been to assert that he would provide a continuation of the Bush presidency and be essentially the same as Bush – a tack Obama has used as well.
But Obama on Sunday grouped McCain with himself and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) in saying that any of the three major candidates still in the race would be an improvement over Bush.
“You have a real choice in this election. Either Democrat would be better than John McCain,” Obama said during an event in Pennsylvania, as quoted by the Associated Press. Then he added: "And all three of us would be better than George Bush."
Clinton seized on the comments in her effort to win the Democratic nomination. Her campaign has tried to cast her as the better general election candidate, and Obama’s comments provide an opening for them on that front.
The Pennsylvania primary will be held Tuesday, and Clinton is looking for a decisive win to keep her campaign alive.
“We need a nominee who will take on John McCain, not cheer on John McCain, and I will be that nominee,” Clinton said in a speech in Johnstown, Pa.
I don’t see how this is a “slip up”. In the democrat point of view anyone would be “better” than Bush.
True but I think Obama would be VP no matter which party it is. Maybe that’s why he’s being nice to McCain.
It’s too early to be “reaching”.
Just goes to show you, they are mostly three peas in a pod.
Right. McCain is going to pick Obama for VP? Not if McCain wants to win he won’t.
Obama is trying sneak a hideout to cover his past woeful track record via John McCain. By "pulling" on his John McCain face, he hopes some of the Rpublican nature of John McCain morphs onto his own Obama image. And that in so doing, he is rhetorically positioning all three current candidates (Hill, BO, JMc) at an "even the playing field" imaging. Some of the BO and Hillary ugliness slops over onto John McCain.
This strategery definitely sounds like it was devised by Big Vibes Guru Howard Dean.
You know, Mr. Dean... if you look far out in time, far out in space, you'll see the back of your head?
My opinion is they are about the same thing, and that thing is bad.
Of course Hillary and Obama are equally horror shows.
“Right. McCain is going to pick Obama for VP? Not if McCain wants to win he won’t.”
My theory is that the Democrats will nominate John McCain for President to avoid a floor fight at their convention. That way their nominee becomes President, but they will peddle it as a unity ticket. Then they name Obama for VP, and tell everyone to vote for McCain as Democrat rather than a Republican so their VP joins him in the White House. And with McCain as old as he is . . . well, if that happens he better get a food taster.
It may sound crazy, but it is no crazier than actually believing that Obama is going to do anything other than emulate George McGovern if he is on the top of the Democrat’s ticket. It would probably succeed in getting McCain elected as a Democrat, what with all the conservative dislike for John McCain. Certainly a lot fewer Republicans would vote for him if the Democrats also nominated him.
It depends upon McCain falling for the unity candidate bullwash, but McCain is vain enough to believe it.
VP Barry Hussein Obama, R.
GAAAAAAAAAACK!
If you are a liberal, McCain is certainly an improvement over Bush. So, it is a fact - not a slip up.
Exactly what I was thinking. This is Obama’s way of co-opting (as the liberals like to use the term) the “moderate” republican image of McCain in order to diffuse the “bitter” comments about small town Americans.
Ain’t gonna work. It doesn’t impress the nativist small towners who don’t like McCain anyway, and it won’t get past the bluedog dems who already are inclined to see McCain as better than Bush.
That is ridiculous. McCain IS NOT like Barack Obama. Shame on you. You can say it a thousand times, it doesn’t make it true. It’s childish.
I said there was no difference between McCain and Bush. There certainly is a difference between McCain and Obama.
It’s a slip-up because BHO has constantly harped that McCain would only be a “third Bush term” - see? But once again, in an unguarded, unscripted moment, he now speaks the REAL truth. I love it.
How ironic you mention McGovern - I’m seeing him on cpsan right now. Dead man walking and still spouting the same incredibly stupid rhetoric. (Lord, I apologize) :-)
yes, there ARE differences, many, between McCain and Bush. Remember ‘04 when they ran against one another? Each greatly disliked the other, and they disagree on many things. Don’t drink the Dem’s koolaid.
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