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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: manalagi who wrote (32326)	9/12/2008 11:13:02 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 149317

I think obama is trying to emulate JFK and that will work if he can pull it off.

To: manalagi who wrote (32326)	9/13/2008 5:05:05 AM
From: nigel bates	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

>>... he resorts to low tactics which connect to main stream America. Obama has to do the same, but being a decent Christian he takes the high road. He can become John Kerry II (or Al Gore III). Bet he won't take that advice. Proof: he keeps adulating McCain as the war hero, he said McCain is legendary, and people worship legends. Whose fault is it? Obama...<< I must respectfully disagree. Obama has to stay who he is. Continuing to praise McCain as a was hero is not only the decent thing to do, it's also going to become an extremely effective tactic. People worship legends, but they also turn on them very quickly when those 'legends' let them down. Look how the media is beginning to change in its treatment of McCain. The democrat line (which also has the benefit of being true) is going to be that McCain may have been a war hero, but he has changed. McCain has disgraced himself in the last couple of weeks, and uncommitted people are beginning to realise it. You really want Obama to start talking about how McCain's war service has always been overhyped, how he abandoned his first wife, how his academic record sucks ? That would just be silly.

To: manalagi who wrote (32326)	9/13/2008 8:36:18 AM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 149317

McCain couldn't be bothered to wear an American flag pin on September 11 John Aravosis (DC) · 9/12/2008 01:22:00 PM ET · Link Why didn't McCain wear a flag pin to yesterday's event commemorating September 11? If you check the photos, he wasn't wearing one, he wasn't wearing any pins at all. Obama was. He was wearing an American flag. Once McCain realized what he'd done, I hear he then asked a police officer for his NYPD pin, and put it on, then did the same thing to a fireman (telling him he needed the pin for Cindy). It's not a big deal, unless of course it was Barack Obama who refused to honor the flag on the day commemorating the worst terror attack in American history (oh and don't think we won't be seeing ads from John McCain soon about how Obama hates the flag, because we will). Then again, McCain had other things on his mind yesterday, like the negative ad he was running in violation of the truce honoring September 11. And finally, before the McCain campaign reminds us, again, that John McCain was a former POW, how does that explain not wearing a flag?