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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (92574)	8/21/2008 12:27:22 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 93284

After ‘change,’ what? By Jim Wooten \| Thursday, August 21, 2008, 08:15 AM The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Democrats privately are questioning whether Barack Obama has a second-phase act, a follow-up once “change” wears thin, the Associated Press reports. John McCain,meanwhile, is finding his footing. A new radio ad for McCain returns to the image of Obama, the celebrity. “Celebrities like to spend their millions,” it says. “Barack Obama is no different. Only it’s your money he wants to spend.” Obama television ad approach is to accuse McCain of being “more of the same” with tax-cut giveaways to big oil and big corporations. It’s the sort of stuff that appeals to his liberal base, but after a year of campaigning has lost its punch. Young guy, old stuff. Is there something else? Something else beyond “change”? A problem for Obama, too, is that once he goes negative, as he’s doing this week, he risks turning off the young who hear one message and see another. In the Atlanta market, he’s launching a television ad that attempts to link McCain to Ralph Reed. “It is just sad,” Reed said, “that the Obama campaign, which once pledged to run on hope and change, is now resorting to the politics of personal destruction and fear and smear as Obama drops in the polls.” Too, he continued, it takes “a lot of chutzpah for someone who did real estate deals with Tony Rezko to attack others.” McCain is up 5 percentage points over Obama in the latest Rasmussen poll, a real turnaround. Reed, who handles the media’s tough questions better than any other Republican in the country, did go to the heart of one of Obama’s vulnerabilities in his response. The young have a nose for hypocrisy. If Act Two of the Obama narrative is the scene where he reveals himself to be just another Chicago machine politician who plays with the truth, the young cut him loose in a heartbeat. Obama goes into his convention reeling. But no worry. Bill and Hillary are there to lift him up.