Posted on 05/10/2008 4:48:06 PM PDT by Baladas
BEND, Ore. (AP) — Barack Obama began sketching the outlines of his expected presidential contest against Republican John McCain on Saturday, saying the fall election will be more about specific plans and priorities than about questions of political ideology or who is more patriotic.
Barely mentioning Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama said he was open to campaigning with McCain in "town hall" events. But he also warned that controversial issues such as McCain's ties to the Keating Five savings and loan scandal are fair game, and he called McCain's proposal for a temporary halt in the federal gasoline tax a pander and a gimmick.
"In a contest between myself and John McCain," he said, "there is going to be a very clear choice on policy that I don't think is going to have to do with ideology and who theoretically is more liberal or who's more conservative. I think it is going to have to do with who has a plan to provide relief to people when it comes to their gas prices, who has a real plan to make sure that everybody has health insurance, who's got a real plan to deal with college affordability."
"So rather than an abstract set of questions about, 'Is he too liberal, is he too conservative, how do voters handle an African American, et cetera,' I think this is going to be a very concrete contest around very specific plans for how we improve the lives of Americans and our vision for the future," he said.
Obama said he realizes he must continue introducing himself to millions of Americans who do not know him well, and acknowledged that some question his patriotism because he no longer wears a lapel flag pin.
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Yeah, ideology and patriotism have nothing to do with anything.
I’ll say it again. If the Republican party had a real candidate, beating this leftist, socialist, black liberationist, would be a cake walk to the White House. But no. We get McLame. So, this a-hole Obama has a shot. Sad.
Then he went on to say that anything relative to who voted for him in droves or REV Wright, are all off limits cause that is RACIST fear mongering. Anything about little Billie Ayers and wifey, Bernie, are out of bounds as "old news" and is SDSist.
The me generation.
58 State no grammer Obama.
Democrats bring him on.
Pining Obambi down on immigration reform, and all the rest of the hot potatoes plus how this is going to be done should be interesting.
Thus far, he’s been able to slide on “CHANGE” because our news media is comprised of homoeroticists like Chris Matthews and complete dumbbells from the Skool of Jornolizim.
What a particularly vapid bunch of idiots.
Obama has all of the truly stupid voters of all ages, most of the black voters of all ages, and all of the moonbat voters of all ages vote for him on November 4, thanks to the long-term “dumbing down” of America. Despite all of Obama’s negatives, these three groups combined can still be enough for Obama to truly win on November 4.
Osama Hussein Obama plans to destroy as much of this country as he can in four years. That’s his pledge along with help from his radical, hate-America wife. Pray, pray, pray for we’re doomed!!!
The Obama Plan For Lowering Gas Prices:
1. Bug out of Iraq and voluntarily lose the war.
2. Leave the Persian Gulf region that contains 70% of the World's known oil reserves under the military control of fanatical Islamist Iranian mullahs that are seeking nuclear weapons and delivery systems and consider America the Great Satan.
3. Gas prices go down.
He and Dean will run a 60 state strategy and no one will talk them out of it. My favorite state? The Antilles.
“But he also warned that controversial issues such as McCain’s ties to the Keating Five savings and loan scandal are fair game,”
Obama is probably that stupid to think he himself can get a “pass” on the corruption game.
His Socialism will shine and the gimmee generation will swoon.
Two words: Tony Rezko.
Who do you consider a "real candidate" that can win a GENERAL ELECTION and not just a Free Republic Popularity Poll?
Fred?
Mitt?
Huckabee?
Rudy?
Ron Paul, maybe?
Ronald Reagan's corpse?
The bottom line is that McCain showed leadership when it counted.
Back in 2006, when Rumsfeld was dead set against the Surge, when Bush was meekly following Rumsfeld's lead and when the Democrats were howling for our surrender, it was John McCain that was championing, with only 18% support in the polls, the Surge strategy that has turned the war around.
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America, as we learned in the last two squeaker elections, is pretty much split 50/50 down middle in terms of right-of-center and left-of-center.
The Democrats have been hoisted on their own petard of identity politics and 28% of Hillary supporters are ready to jump ship to McCain if Obama is the Democratic nominee.
Gallup Poll: Many Democrats Ready to Vote McCain if Their First Choice Doesn’t Make It to November
The greatest obstacle to a McCain victory and the greatest enablers of an Obama victory are the members of the McCain Haters Club on our own side of the right-of-center line.
Obama Game PLan:
- Lie my ass off.
- Let my pals in the media grind McCain into dust.
- Blather on about a bunch of pretty nothings and hope the American voter really is that dumb.
- Keep Michelle hidden in the closet and off the talk shows.
- Lie my ass off.
It is what it is. McCain is better than Obama. Obama is a third world populist, who’s rhetoric, is a par with Chavez. We should all be very afraid of him. Those of us who love our country need to put our ego aside and vote McCain. I feel like this forum has been overun by radicals sometimes. Be practical, not idealists, friends.
It’s hilarious to hear him talk about the values upon which this country was founded. There is just about NOTHING that the Left embraces that is any way related to the Founders’ vision for the country, be they High Federalist or ardent Jeffersonian Republican.
I’ve said recently that this country, in spite of its problems and divisions, would basically be fine had the “Left” of the Marxian variety never come to power or mastered the art of subversion of traditional institutions in order to propagate its evil memes.
We could easily live in and love a country in which Federalists and Republicans were constantly at odds, however differently they may have thought in 1797. It would be very difficult indeed to tolerate a country in which Obama or any of his political mentors ruled.
Fred?
Mitt?
Yes and yes.
My good friend from Chandler just called for the first time in 2 years. We talked racing at Darlington and he turned it to politics. He is a die-hard lefty and thinks Hillary will expose Washington. I told him Hillary is out and he said no-way. That is what we are dealing with. (He’s an F-4 mechanic BTW, but is quite naive, oh and he just bought an H2).
Yes and yes.
I saw Fred, live, in one of his first Presidential debates. I WANTED him to win the primaries. However, he went through the motions as if he were calling out Bingo numbers at a nursing home.
The bottom line is that Fred could not even attract decent numbers in a REPUBLICAN primary full of conservatives and he would crash and burn in the general election.
As far as Mitt Romney, why would any Conservative vote for a candidate who has no core values?
However, both Fred and Mitt are history.
The choice is now between Obama and, whether you like it or not, McCain.
You can either work to get Obama defeated or, with every snide post about "McLame", you can work to get Obama elected.
The plan is very simple: Scream RACIST as loudly and as often as possible. Repeat if necessary.
Obama is whining about the media?
The media created him. They carry water and everything else for him 24/7! Sure, the Wright stuff got out. But they’re on continuous damage control.
If you rely on the media, you might not even know there was anyone else to vote for except Bhussama and the Beast.
That is NOT a coincidence.
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