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June 04, 2008
Can Obama be Beat?
According to ABC, Hillary Clinton will concede the race to Barack Obama on Friday. The race is now (almost) officially between John McCain and Hope McChangerton. How on earth can McCain beat a man who has already made history?
It won't be easy, but I think there's a definite strategy McCain can take that would make Obama beatable - and Obama set it up with his own rhetoric. What must drive Clinton supporters nuts is the fact that Obama didn't win the Democratic primary based on his policy positions - he won because he successfully made the Democratic primary about him and his vapid message of 'hope and change.' People voted for him because he's Barack Obama, not because he believes X,Y and Z.
I hope the McCain campaign realizes this and decides to use some of their advertising dollars to cast doubt on the myth of Barack Obama. Their ads should focus on some simple questions - who is this guy? What does he believe? And do his beliefs and his political actions match his "post-partisan, different-kind-of-politics" rhetoric? And I don't mean pointing out his personal or political associations - I mean using ads like this:
Cut of Barack Obama mouthing platitudes about a different type of politics.
Narrator: "Barack Obama says he wants to bring a different type of politics to this country. But every time he's had the chance to make a change in this election, he's chosen the old way:
-headlines about Obama refusing public financing, as he promised
-newspaper editorials pointing out his deceptions on the '100 years in Iraq' comment
Barack Obama: Nice words, no action.
Or another ad:
Cut of Barack Obama talking about reaching across the aisle to work with Republicans
Narrator" Barack Obama says as president, he would work with Republicans to tackle the challenges facing our country. But when he had the chance to put his words into practice in the Senate, he...didn't. In fact, he voted with his party and the far-left so often that National Journal named him the Most Liberal Senator in 2007.
Barack Obama: Nice words, no action.
Obama wants this election to be about him as history maker and his message of hope and change, not about his quasi-socialist, Carter-lite ideology. So let's oblige him. After all, if there's one thing Americans hate it's a phony.
Of course, we could lose the election for a much stupider reason. Bob Barr? Really? How far the Libertarians have fallen...
Posted by slublog at June 4, 2008 09:28 PM
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Comments
Madam Clinton has done a wonderful job of cementing her likely nomination in the next election.
You almost have to give her credit for showing the public about Obama's past. Crappy reverends and all. Despite the media hard-on with Obama, we suddenly learn about his inexperience and his past.
He looks like the next great thing, yet what are his ideas? msnbc, cnn, etc.. don't look towards that.
he's over his head, he'll talk a good game, but if he gets there he won't know what to do.
Posted by: coldmexican at June 6, 2008 12:27 AM