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Obama and Bush II

by aberman | June 9, 2008 at 9:37 PM

I was honored to have my earlier blog post mentioned by John Henke so I want to build on it a bit, given that there was substantial diasgreement in the comments:

It is my personal view that people have a heightened sensitivity to what they believe are the failings of the current president.  That which they are sick of, they don't want any more of. Can you imagine how much worse either of the major candidates would have done in 2000 if even a minimally credible mistress came forth? This suggests lines of attack.  One doesn't have to say "Obama is just like George Bush because George Bush did whatever the Republican Congress wanted and Obama will do whatever the Democratic Congress wants;"  one simply has to say "Obama will give Nancy Pelosi whatever she asks for."

 

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Yeeesh, we don't go there.

Submitted by section9 on Tue, 06/10/2008 - 08:49.

 However, it is worth pointing out that we can use the Democrats same attack points that were used on Bush by 527's. McCain would be stupid to do that himself. It's enough to create an atmosphere of "all hat, no cattle" about Obama that liberals tried to peddle with GW. 

The difference with Bush is that GW had several years of experience as an AF pilot, work in his father's White House as his Dad's enforcer, and six years as Governor of Texas to back him up. Obama has none of that going for him.

Barack has a sophisticated propaganda campaign and the backing of the news media. There's no there there. If the McCain Campaign were anything like BC'04, Obama would be toast right now. 

But this is the McCain Campaign we're talking about here.