Attack, Attack, Attack
McCain apparently didn’t get Frum’s memo, channelling Nelson again. Divide and defeat. Attack, attack, attack. NYT:
STRONGSVILLE, Ohio — Senator John McCain devoted most of two campaign appearances on Wednesday to lusty attacks on Senator Barack Obama and gave less attention, and offered very few specifics, to the growing economic woes of American voters.
In both appearances, in this suburb of Cleveland and at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., Mr. McCain’s stump speech followed the same pattern: In broad, quick strokes, he reiterated the economic proposal he raised at his debate with Mr. Obama on Tuesday night — a “homeownership resurgence plan,” in which the government would buy mortgages directly from homeowners and mortgage services and replace them with what he called “manageable” mortgages.
After that, he raced through promises of jobs, tax cuts, lower prices, better health care, a spending freeze and a balanced federal budget by the end of his first term. With that done, Mr. McCain then dived into the core of his speech, a lengthy, full-throated and crowd-pleasing criticism of Mr. Obama’s record, character and judgment.
“Who is the real Senator Obama?” Mr. McCain asked in an increasingly sharp tone in Ohio, as Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska stood to his side. “Is he the candidate who promises to cut middle-class taxes, or the politician who voted to raise middle-class taxes? Is he the candidate who talks about regulation or the politician who took money from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and turned a blind eye as they ran our economy into a ditch?”
Mr. McCain has never been comfortable talking about the economy, and in these final weeks of his nearly two-year, second-time quest of the presidency, with polls showing him losing increasing ground to Mr. Obama, Mr. McCain and his advisers have made the calculation that negative attacks will move at least some voters.
That’s all fine, but I watched that debate the other night. McCain offered specifics on the economy. Obama did not, except when pressed.
Hotair with the new McCain Ayers ad.
Here’s Blogger Interrupted, outraged that some people confuse palling around with terrorists and wanting to negotiate with them with being one. I dunno, maybe its a joint venture argument? He also thinks if you oppose the Messiah, you’re either stupid, ignorant, racist or blindly partisan. Nice of him to give all the stupid, ignorant racists that last out. Nice shot of him peering through that weird Obama moon logo at the top of his blog, by the way.
Gateway wants to know why the sudden outrage over people calling an American politician a terrorist? Where was the indignation four years ago?
A scandalized Dana Milbank documents the frothing, the rage, the unhingedness. I guess I want to know, after nearly eight years of Bush-bashing, when excessive exuberance and high-blown rhetoric in the expression of strong political feelings suddenly became cause for alarm.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 1:29 pm on Thursday, October 9, 2008
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