Re: [OT] Why won't Obama go Negative? In article <BqJHk.2075$hc1.1703@flpi150.ffdc.sbc.com>,
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
> With all the lies that McCain and the Republicans have been using on
> Obama, I don't understand why he doesn't respond with some negative ads
> of his own. Not more ads that simply tell the truth about John McCain,
> i.e. the Keating 5 ads, those are ostensibly negative, but they're not
> personal.
>
> McCain and Palin have a _lot_ more personal stiff to go after than
> something like the whole Ayers schtick.
>
> I saw a good YouTube video regarding the whole "family values" and
> "experience" crap that the neo-cons make noise about whenever Rush and
> Sean tell them to.
>
> "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg5tl87rEE4"
>
> Maybe Obama figures that he's gotten this far ahead by talking about
> real issues and that responding would lower himself to McCain's level.
> But he needs to be careful, as the Republicans might come up with lie
> that works. They did it to Kerry with all the Swift Boat lies, and there
> were enough stupid people out there that believed them. Are there enough
> totally clueless people like Mike Hunt, dbu, Mark, Charles, and Scott to
> turn this thing around for McCain?
>
> The other issue Obama needs to worry about is that people are starting
> to feel sorry for McCain's struggling candidacy and may want to vote for
> an underdog.
Obama's been negative all along. If he dosent say it out of his mouth,
he's got people to say it for him.
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