Letters to the Editor
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This is an example
So let me get this straight - McCain goes out in public and bashes Obama. You tell us this is an example of how Obama will fight back - what does he do, this supposed great example - he issues a statement.
McCain goes out in public and gets coverage and video - Obama responds with a statement.
I loath McCain, but if this keeps up McCain wins. Sorry, but swallow your own kool aid.
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inexperience vs willful ignorance
Sen. Obama can always accuse McCain of willful ignorance. That's certainly worse than inexperience.
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velomonkey
uh, FIRST the primary.
THEN the election.
He's busy trying to wrap up this primary right now. There'll be plenty of time to face McCain head on, should he win the nomination.
McCain needs publicity so he *creates words* with Obama who has no problem getting attention. How smart of the lackluster McCain campaign strategists. If Obama ignored his comments, it wouldn;t have even made news.
OH DEWLL
I guess we have to wait until we have a nominee before we can bather taking him on headfirst with full force.
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Transcendent Challenges
John McCain, who thought Vietnam was central to the transcendent challenge of fighting the spread of communism and thinks Iraq is integral to fighting the transcendent challenge of Islamic extremism is accusing Barack Obama of misunderstanding history? Apparently, John McCain knows nothing but war, and clumsy misdirected war at that. What use is experience if you're consistently wrong?
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McCain and Obama
I look forward to watching face to face debates between McCain and Obama. McCain is a charming, ironic guy, but his native intelligence and knowledge of the world pale in comparison to Obama. He calls his years of being in Washington "experience," but he does not seem to have learned the lessons that good experience teaches! And his integrity is more and more questionable. How he plans to get himself out of the Iraq Quagmire by claiming "experience" will be interesting to see! And I have no clue what he means when he talks about "winning" this War! Does he? Does anybody? Obama is just out of McCain's class when it comes to formulating ideas and talking policy, and he knows this was (and is) a "stupid war" that we have no business fighting!
The big question to me is: are the American people still so stupid and uninformed that they will vote for another conservative, "charmer" in 2008? That would be really, really depressing!!!
Kate Madison
Depoe Bay, Oregon
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Why that whippersnapper doesn't know...
"you know, stuff about... military... did you know I was POW... damn kids, invading Bolivia is the only way we're going to stop Castro! Everyone knows that, why even Martha Washington...
%$#@#$ where's my prune juice!?!?!
I'll be in the can.... F U Catholic Babolonian whores... Burn in hell."
Oh yea, Obama is really scared by that ignoramus. Please.
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Why is McCain wasting his time on Obama?
Doesn't he know Hillary will be the nominee cause she can answer the phone at 3 in the morning? She also dodges sniper fire and brought peace to Ireland? Doesn't he know that!!!!!
Come on you Hillary supporters, help me out here! McCain is acknowledging Obama, freak out about something!!!!
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Experience
When Obama becomes the nominee, he will need to address the experience issue in this way:
The experience of John McCain and his party has been a total failure. The American people should reject that kind of experience.
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McCain's foreign policy non-bonafides . . .
Iraq is a good starting place. We can also talk about North Korea. Back in the mid-1990s McCain was beating the war drum for an invasion which would likely have resulted in 1 million or so South Korean deaths, fractured relations with a long-time ally, and increased tensions within the region. As far as American interests are concerned the move might not have been as bone-headed and disastrous as the Iraq invasion, but it definitely would not have advanced American interests.
McCain is an American hero for his service to the country. But he does not have the kind of judgment that we should demand of a president.
We haven't even touched on the man's bone-headed domestic debacles from the Keating 5 S&L scandal forward. De-regulation is not a universal panacea (the current banking crisis being yet another painful example) -- especially not when the net damage is hundred billion tax-payer funded bailouts -- especially when McCain and his sugar-daddies refuse to pick up the tab for their screw-ups.
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Obama is going to deftly, smoothly and effectively make McCain look like the BUMBLER he is!
And it's going to be a beautiful thing to behold. Especially because Obama is right.
Allow me to put on my Nostradamus hat for a second. This is just my prediction, but... Here's what's going to happen:
(1) After the PA election, Hillary Clinton will get a minor victory, then sustain a series of losses in the remaining states, while the superdelegates and other endorsements pile up on Obama's side. This will be the ideal time for Clinton to bow out with her remaining grace and reputation.
(2) After a period of mourning Clinton's loss, though not growing a beard, Hillary Clinton (along with Bill) will resoundingly endorse Barack Obama. Clinton's supporters, though initially very bitter, will begin the process of coming around to Obama's side. The whole thing will be dependent on Hillary Clinton's example, but it will be relatively easy because Obama has made it a habit to be respectful toward Clinton ("I am friends with Hillary Clinton now, and I will remain friends with Hillary Clinton throughout this race," etc.)
(3) Democrats, Independents, and even some Republicans will rally around Obama, who will continue making solid arguments against McCain's rhetoric. All the while, Obama will present himself as tough on foreign policy and tough on terrorists, and this will mitigate the fact that McCain is a "war hero." Obama will ALWAYS remain respectful of McCain's service to the U.S. and his experience, focusing primarily on attacking McCain's faulty arguments, not the man himself. Obama will keep attacks on McCain's past affairs and personal life out of it, though surrogates will undoubtedly point out McCain's connections to lobbyists and the Keating Five scandal as a response to McCain's surrogates dredging up Rezko crap.
(4) Obama will go from 45% to 60% in the polls against McCain. McCain will stumble on key facts as he has about Al-Qaeda and Iran, and will not recover. In debates, Obama will triumph over McCain while again, being completely respectful to him. Obama will avoid the urge to fight dirty against McCain again and again, and he will cooly deflect the myriad nasty swipes taken at him by surrogates.
(5) Obama will win the election and be the next U.S. president. He will have high approval ratings and will effectively organize and lead Washington to enact meaningful, positive legislation that follows the principles and spirit of the Constitution. Unfortunatley, this is when the real work will begin. The campaign will be a cakewalk compared to trying to get the U.S. back on a positive and productive track. Most likely, Obama will have 8 years to at least put the country back in the right direction.