Beware of WMDs (Weapons of Mass Distractions)
Categories: Earnest Gates, Politics and Elections
Written By: Earnest
By Earnest Gates
It is become more and more obvious that the Republican party and conservatives in general do not seem very “hopeful” about Senator John McCain’s chances of winning the presidency. Even sadder, John McCain does not think he can win being the Maverick, John McCain.
He has decided to turn the campaign over to “Karl Rove’s JV team.” Unfortunately, the playbook has the same plays in it from the past two decades. FEAR, FEAR, FEAR.
They have turned to WMDs to accomplish this mission. Senator Obama on Saturday did an excellent job, in a matter-of-fact way, of talking about the talent of the GOP being masters of distractions. You saw a sneak preview over the last week of what is to come in the Fall.
He is too young, he is too inexperienced, do you want a celebrity or a hero to lead you? Do you want the Messiah or a Man on a mission? All I can say is don’t believe the hype because that’s all it is. They want you to get caught in these rabbit trails so it can take your mind off of the real issues and concerns. It has worked in past but, in the words of Barack Obama, “not this time.”
August 5th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Calling issues like experience and hubris “distractions” do nothing to make a candidate look more experienced and capable. Seriously. The sorts of people who would be swayed by it are already voting Democrat, and it holds no sway with independents and Republicans. It just looks like ducking the issue.
And we got a sneak peak of what to expect in the fall? You mean Obama and McCain in a dead heat in the polls?
August 6th, 2008 at 9:56 am
@Phelps McCain is grasping at straws hence the reference to Obama as Paris or Brittney is a distraction and it is exactly the type of low down dirty politricks with no substance that Independents are looking at. You don’t speak for all Independents or Republicans. If you believe that the constant harping of experience and war-mongering are exemplary attributes in a President then good base your vote on that. As for me I am vehemently opposed to McCain’s often belligerent stance on civil discourse and often pugilist approach when dealing with foreign countries. I will give you this that Obama does not signify all I want or desire in a President but I am more than willing to give him a try to untangle us from our current debacle than allowing McCain to get us deeper in the mire.
August 6th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Phelps,
How many African Americans or young people do you think are being polled? That is Barack’s base. Let’s chill out on the polls. They wont determine turnout.
August 6th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
@Phelps, the distractions are the senile rants about the celebrity of one candidate…almost as if he was jealous of his popularity. The distractions are the proposals for gas tax holidays and off-shore drilling that economist believe will add up to about 10 cents in the average voters pocket. The distractions are consistently negative verbal assaults that were supposedly above him 2 months ago. The distractions are when your formerly drug addicted wife (in the hood we call that a crack-head) makes a point on more than one occassion to disrespect the wife of another candidate. The distractions is when you label someone as a ‘flip flopper” when you have changed your opinion on just about everything you supposedly stood for before you won the nomination. Senator McDumb ran high on the “maverick” label, until he ran for office this time around. He now calls himself a “conservative”. I’m so tired of crap. I just hope Barack doesn’t continue to allow himself to be on the offensive. You don’t have to play dirty to hit McDumb where it hurts. The way he’s going, it won’t take long for him to bleed. If Barack wasn’t trying to take the high road, he could win the election on the senile issue alone. McDumb has made so many errors, it really appears he can not last long. And how can you not campaign on weekends? Will he not be able to be president on weekends? It’s not a Monday-Friday 9-5 job. If you can’t handle it, you shouldn’t have ran.
Also @Phelps, surely you jest with the hubris comment. McDumb is so arrogant. I don’t see how the reporters even interview him. He doesn’t answer any questions…as if they have no right to question his majesty. I’m really hoping they will get tougher on him when the election is closer.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:11 am
How many African Americans or young people do you think are being polled? That is Barack’s base. Let’s chill out on the polls. They wont determine turnout.
Blacks at at most 12% of the vote, and they have consistently voted overwhelmingly Democrat. That isn’t a winning strategy. And any plan based on turnout is made of fail. Ask Gore and Kerry.
McCain is grasping at straws hence the reference to Obama as Paris or Brittney is a distraction and it is exactly the type of low down dirty politricks with no substance that Independents are looking at.
Agreed. My disagreement is that crying about how low-down it is or isn’t is an ineffective way to combat it. When your opponent claims that you are immature, whining about him picking on you isn’t the way to nullify that claim.
The distractions are the proposals for gas tax holidays and off-shore drilling that economist believe will add up to about 10 cents in the average voters pocket.
As opposed to Obama’s “check your tire pressure and save 8 cents a gallon instead, and, oh, BTW, I’m gonna give you $1000 now that will cost you even more in the long run when the oil companies charge that expense back to you later” plan?
The distractions are consistently negative verbal assaults that were supposedly above him 2 months ago.
Yes, they make a hilarious counterpoint to Obama’s attack ads that he pledged not to run six months ago.
The distractions are when your formerly drug addicted wife (in the hood we call that a crack-head) makes a point on more than one occassion to disrespect the wife of another candidate.
When that wife of a cokehead (are we done with the drug slurs now?) has injected herself into the campaign, she’s fair game (as is Cindy McCain.) Running for President is Serious Business. Suck it up or buy a helmet.
The distractions is when you label someone as a ‘flip flopper” when you have changed your opinion on just about everything you supposedly stood for before you won the nomination.
That’s why Obama has risen above pointing out when McCain changed his opinion, right? Oh, wait…
The way he’s going, it won’t take long for him to bleed.
Uh… if you hadn’t noticed, Obama has been getting all the positive press, and he’s still only in a dead-heat with McCain when McCain is saddled with an unpopular incumbent. That is bad news for Obama.
If Barack wasn’t trying to take the high road, he could win the election on the senile issue alone.
No, he couldn’t. More old people vote than young people. It would cost him more than it would help him.
McDumb has made so many errors, it really appears he can not last long.
Compared to the 57 State Gaffe Machine?
Also @Phelps, surely you jest with the hubris comment. McDumb is so arrogant. I don’t see how the reporters even interview him. He doesn’t answer any questions…as if they have no right to question his majesty. I’m really hoping they will get tougher on him when the election is closer.
You want to know what I am talking about? At least McCain has the decency to dance around the question. Obama has gone out of his way to ridicule reporters for having the audacity to ask him tough questions.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/08/06/obama-really-doesnt-like-a-debate/?print=1
Republicans have always known that McCain is a politician. That’s the reason that he is so unpopular with the far right. The difference is that no one on Obama’s side was willing to face the fact that at the end of the day he isn’t some sort of higher being — he’s just another politician.
August 7th, 2008 at 10:52 am
You have your opinion and I have mine, so I won’t bother to rebut any of it…except one.
Senator Obama has stated that he has tried drugs in the past on more than on occassion. If Cindy McCain had just admited to trying drugs in the past…that would not have made her a “crack-head”. What made her a crack-head was her “addiction” to the point of stealing the drugs from a NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION and FORGING PRESCRIPTIONS. That’s crackhead behavior if I’ve ever seen it.