Obama learns what a counter punch is
by Big Dog on Aug 21, 2008 at 06:05 Political
Barack Hussein Obama woke up this morning and found himself five points behind John Sidney McCain. This after he suffered a serious blow at the Saddleback forum that saw all but the most seriously mentally ill calling it a big win for McCain. Obama attacked McCain after that forum and he came out swinging at the beginning of this week. I wrote earlier about Obama going on the attack, something I knew he would do as soon as he started to fade.
Obama put out an attack video which ties McCain to disgraced lobbyist (they call him a Republican lobbyist but he gave nearly as much money to Democrats) Jack Abramoff. The ad implies that John McCain made sure that one of the people involved, Ralph Reed, did not have problems and now that person is raising money for McCain. It appears that Reed did not receive special treatment and that the fund raising is, according to him, as a private citizen.
The Obama ad ignores the fact that Barack Obama received money from Abramoff and his associates. The Obama ad also ignores the fact that McCain was responsible for the investigation of the corruption and Abramoff’s demise. McCain exposed the issue but the ad does not let the viewer in on that little secret.
The ad tries to make McCain guilty by association, something Obama chided Hillary for in the primaries. Guilt by association was an issue that was hard for Republicans to bring up (even though Obama has a lot of associates that are shady) because they did not stick in the primaries and the first thing out of their mouths would be racism. Desperate times call for desperate measures and in today’s political climate Obama should be 15 points ahead instead of 5 behind. He has been shown as a weakling and he has decided to start getting mean. It appears though, that Obama made a tactical error. By trying to make McCain guilty by association he opened the door for John McCain to do the very same and there is not a thing the Obama-bots can do about it. Their guy opened the door and invited McCain in.
And in he walked. Big John carrying a big stick and he used it quite effectively:
“Barack Obama’s ad is ridiculous. Because of John McCain, corruption was exposed and people like Jack Abramoff went to jail.
“However, if Barack Obama wants to have a discussion about truly questionable associations, let’s start with his relationship with the unrepentant terrorist William Ayers, at whose home Obama’s political career was reportedly launched. Mr. Ayers was a leader of the Weather Underground, a terrorist group responsible for countless bombings against targets including the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon and numerous police stations, courthouses and banks. In recent years, Mr. Ayers has stated, ‘I don’t regret setting bombs … I feel we didn’t do enough.’
“The question now is, will Barack Obama immediately call on the University of Illinois to release all of the records they are currently withholding to shed further light on Senator Obama’s relationship with this unrepentant terrorist?” —McCain spokesman Brian Rogers via STACLU
Game, set, match. The kid took a swing at John McCain while trying to act tough and the counter punch hit him square in his glass jaw. Now the McCain camp can air ads with pictures of all the things that Ayers blew up and sound bites of him saying they did not do enough. They can top that off with pictures of Barry and Ayers together. There is not a thing that Barry or any of his minions can do about this. You see, Barry could shrug it off in the primaries by claiming that he was a kid when Ayers bombed but Barry was an adult when he became an associate of Ayers. Ayers made his statements in the recent past so Obama is associated with a known terrorist. Obama had to know about Ayers’ past and his current feelings and yet he continued to associate with him. Obama, for such a smart man, led with his chin on this one.
It was good to see the McCain camp shoot back quickly and forcefully. This was not only a shot to the chin, it was also a shot across the bow. The McCain camp sent a warning that basically said; “If you want to play this game you go right ahead but we are good at it and we are not afraid to hit you very hard when we punch back. I bet this will give Obama a bit of a pause.
Might be too late. Now McCain is free to exploit the past associations of Obama and to use them without worry.
Barry played Carlton the doorman on this one.
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And what have we learned, “Messiah” B. Hussein Obama? When does pride come? Oh yeah…before a fall.
That one has got to sting, I guess BO should been bobbing and weaving (maybe flipping and flopping as he’s better at that) instead of trying to throw punches.
BO really should have stayed away from the whole “look at who his friends & associates are” angle cause he’s got WAY more questionable associations than McCain to any non-Moonbat. Those who have drank the Obama kool-aid however will probably never admit his associations are (and should be) huge red flags to any citizen of the United States.
The Thunder Run has linked to this post in the – Web Reconnaissance for 08/21/2008 A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often.
Dog,
Jack(off) Abramoff gave “nearly” as much money to Dems? Hmm, that doesn’t sound right to me.
http://www.newsmeat.com/washington_political_donations/Jack_Abramoff.php
Of course it is easy to show a site that only includes direct donations. However, many of his clients spent money on the Dems. I think the difference was less than 200K ** in one year and a total of around a million total.
Newsmax
**This sentence was not completed when it was published.
Oh, I got it now. So now any businessperson is responsible for the political donations of his/her “clients”. That makes a lot of sense…if you’re a moron.
PEACE
Abramoff directed the money to go to the Dems. That is the same as giving it.
I once worked for a man whom “directed” his employees to contribute to (r)epukes. In your nonsensical definition, would such contributions be the same thing as if my employer made the contributions himself?
PEACE
If he was directing the donation in order to get political favors then he would be responsible for the fraud.
I know it is hard for you but Abramoff told clients to pay Democrats for political favors. The money came from Abramoff for political favor. That is illegal.
Your Dems took bribes from Abramoff.
Have any Dems been indicted for illegal dealings with Abramoff?
PEACE
Out of all those people who took money, how many from either party were?
Democrats hardly ever get indicted. William Jefferson should be in jail but he is not.
You make little sense. This explains why you’re a (r)epuke.
PEACE
I make a lot of sense. You have a mental disorder, liberalism.
You are unable to see the truth. Bith parties are full of criminals and do bad things. You excuse the ones done by the left while excoriating the right.
When we have a person get caught, we call for his head. You guys applaud yours and excuse them.