Obama’s got nuthin’
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So how does Barak Obama plan on blocking John McCain’s run at the White House? The only way he knows how – the only way Democrats know how to win. Bill Clinton won the White House in 1992 by telling half-truths about the economy and George H. W. Bush’s tax pledge. Obama intends to tell half half-truths about John McCain (ABC News link);
Asked in January about President Bush’s willingness to keep a US troop presence in Iraq for 50 years, McCain cut off the questioner, saying, “Make it a hundred.”
“We’ve been in Japan for 60 years,” said McCain. “We’ve been in South Korea for 50 years, or so. That’s fine with me as long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed.”
Even though the Arizona senator explained that he was referring to stationing troops in Iraq for 100 years rather than engaging in a century-long war, McCain’s comment was a potential gift for Obama . . . as long as the Illinois Democrat played it straight.
But Obama can’t play it straight – because there’s nothing he can argue with. The only thing Obama can argue about is the thing McCain didn’t say;
“And when it comes to foreign policy, John McCain says he wants to fight a hundred-year war, a hundred years he says, as long as it takes. That is not designed to make us safe that is simply stubbornness. That is designed to try to make a bad decision look better.”
A deliberate mischaracterization of what John McCain said, and if you’re looking for Obama to retract it, fat chance;
Obama was asked by ABC’s David Wright if his comments amounted to the kind of politics as usual that the Illinois Democrat often accuses Hillary Clinton of practicing.
“No, no, no, no. I don’t think. I don’t think. I don’t think it’s unfair at all,” said Obama (ignoring comments he made in Maine and elsewhere). “I mean we can run the YouTube spot.”
Yes, we can run the YouTube video, Barak, but you don’t get to tell us when to turn the video off. I’m pretty sure that he figures no one will find out what McCain actually said – his supporters are only gullible because they refuse to believe anything negative about him – mind-numbed drones that they are. But this is a national election, everyone gets to vote and unless Obama can be less like all of the things we dislike about Clinton, he’ll be toast in November.
In fact, I’ve had discussions with Democrats who think that John McCain said he wanted to fight a hundred-year war (you know who you are). When informed of the context of his remark they change the subject to the fact that he’s too old (like Ronald Reagan was too old in 1984) or his health problems (like Dick Cheney’s health problems in 2000/2004).
Issues? They’ve got nuthin’ without their whiny droning about “free health care” and “tax hikes for the rich”. So, like Bill Clinton who had nuthin’ in 1992, Obama needs to make stuff up.
Meanwhile, the Obama posse is scrubbing his image by cleaning up his website according to Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs – but she’s hard at work chronicling and archiving the more embarrassing stuff for posterity. James Taranto at WSJ’s Best of the Web writes that MSNBC is trying to make McCain look like Kerry. And he slaps down Howard Dean’s comments about McCain’s military service last week.
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