Posted on 11/03/2008 10:40:09 AM PST by ChiefJayStrongbow
... The media is going to waste the last day covering the ‘finger’. It was a calculated move on his part to take attention away from his Bankrupting the Coal Industry comments and other comments related to Dramatically increasing the price of electricity.
Let's keep the media's focus on his policies that will be disastrous for America (we get 50% of our power from coal!!!!) and not play his game.
As an aside, when he flipped Hillary the bird in the primaries, was there anything detrimental that was breaking in the news about him just prior to that distraction?
Plausible. Stay on the COAL comment.
Agreed! It’s not what’s important right now.
I agree.
I think it is good strategy to pile on. Keep up the drumbeat on the “bankrupting coal” story, but send all of your Lib friends a YouTube of the finger as well.
My standard e-mail packages the Hillary Finger and the McCain Finger together. That’s a special that goes out to all of my Hillary Clinton supporting friends...
You are right. Let’s stick with the coal issue. We all know his middle finger likes to speak for him. Typical juvenile behavior. Forget inexperience! The man is too immature to lead.
The Finger isn’t important. His minions will applaud it as an act of defiance. Keep hammering on his destructive energy policies. He will bankrupt the country...
Maybe so, but they both work against him as far as I’m concerned.
And yet, the finger may get us as many votes. I'll bet a lot of PUMAs remember the same gesture directed toward Hillary, and that contempt for women is part of why they won't vote Obama. I wonder if some former Hillary voters who don't consider themselves PUMAs will be nudged onto our side by one more reminder of Obama's complete lack of maturity and class (and incidentally a reminder of his dismissal of Hillary). I'll take coal and the finger rather than just one or the other.
Normally i would dismiss such speculation as over-thinking things but you could be right. It would be a good strategy on their part, if they did actually plan this. But the question then becomes....why use an obscene gesture as a distraction? The possible answer is that they are banking on non-political junkies (like us here who are aware of previous instances and are aware that Obama isn’t quite the All-American hero that the media portrays him as) to see the “bird” gesture as nonsense, they will say that of course if you have a camera on someone hour after hour every day there’s bound to be inadvertent gestures like this. This feeling will of course be helped along by the media who will say that the Republicans are getting desperate.
This points out something that i have noticed since the Clinton years. That we too often look for that one huge knockout punch instead of just continuing to pound away with what got our opponent back on the ropes in the first place (in this case Wright, coal).
correction: meant to say “unlike us here” instead of “like us here”
Just reply that it wasn’t McCain he was giving the finger to, it was the coal miners.
Watch ‘em change topics.
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