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Originally Posted by richlevy
Kudos to Obama for trying to engage this guy. If someone had tried a similar tactic with Palin she would have shouted him down with "Sir bless you for exercising your right that my son is risking his life for and you need to think of your country first".
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Joe the Plumber is an idiot. He was a plant from the McCain campaign sent there to ambush Obama. Obama handled it with class, dignity, and character as he always does.
In fact, I wish he would get down a dirty. Tonight McCain mentioned ACORN and Ayres. Two things that have no connection to the Obama campaign and are nothing but sleazy attempts to smear Obama. I was begging Obama from my screen to mention McCain's association with G. Gordon Liddy, or his close personal friendship with Charles Keating in which his entire family (including the babysitter) were flown to the Bahamas on Keating who was stealing money from Lincoln savings and loan. McCain was the most corrupt member of the Keating Five. Obama should have mentioned McCain's close
association with a white supremacist named Richard Quinn, who found himself hired as a political advisor by
McCain in 2000.
Obama is an honorable man, and I commend him for taking the high road, but I desperately want to see him take off his jacket and tie, roll up his sleeves and sling the same kind of mud that McCain is doing.
John McCain's campaign is straight out of Karl Rove's playbook. McCain has launched the largest and dirtiest smear campaign in the history of global politics. His supporters spread racist messages, outright lies, idiotic accusations about being Muslim, or not being patriotic, or things that don't matter like what his pastor or wife said. These sleezeballs doctor photos, lie about his hand over his heart during the pledge when the photo was taken during the song "America the Beautiful"...not the national anthem.
In every McCain campaign commercial they spread lies. They question his integrity and character. Obama sticks to the issues and tells the truth. That is refreshing for an American Presidential candidate.
The filthy lies and smears to attack Obama have obviously not worked for McCain because he's behind in the polls by double-digits. It would have been nice to see Obama get a few gut shots and finish the debates with a knockout instead of a unanimous decision.