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To: Dale Baker who wrote (63098)	5/2/2008 7:58:13 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 545069

You are saying these choices made by an adult spouse are "trivial things" and that they shouldn't be issues in a campaign. But your 'Liberal' friend Allen, in the message right before this one, thinks that the teenage driving record of a spouse should have been an issue used against George W. Bush. I'm not advocating that either be used as issues, but I am just reminding you all that certain things can be used as issues and do have a cost at the ballot box. At least in fly-over country.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (63098)	5/2/2008 10:28:19 PM
From: Katelew	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 545069

I've always shared your loathing of those tactics. What I don't share is your expectation that Obama or any politician has the ability to just, poof, make it go away. My guess, though, is that it's losing its effectiveness.....the 527s, for example. Republican voters, most anyway, know they got suckered in to backing an idiot for President. During the campaign it was painfully obvious that Bush could hardly frame a coherent fifth-grade level idea. And living where I live, I can promise you that evangelical voters feel they've been played by the Republican Party. So I think these tactics won't go away but are losing their oomph to some extent.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (63098)	5/2/2008 10:47:26 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 545069

Keith Olberman on his show today showed a clip of John McCain of the stump in Denver. In that clip McCain said, and I paraphrase, "he will have a energy policy that will result in the US never having to send US troops to war in the ME." Any idea of what point he was trying to make. Wonder which Democratic candidate will agree with him on this. ================================= Another issue: Any ideas on why FOX News is the only network that constantly brings up the issue of Ayers when others in the MM pay no heed to that issue.