Obamaniacs, are you disturbed?

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by Tex

I'm not the one getting my panties in a twist

Hm. That would be more likely if I --

oh nevermind

[YOhio]

Originally Posted by myboynoah

Does it bother you that Obama has now come out with very negative ads, striking at McCain for his age and questioning his honor? I ask the obvious question: Wasn't Obama going to be different and show us all the best way? Oh his elequence in calling for a higher standard; now all for naught.

I assume you are all pragmatists and agree that 1) negative advertizing works and that 2) because of that, Obama must use old line political methods. Even then, how bothered are you?

I am pretty sure he lost my vote with these shenanigans. If anything, I'm definitely not the huge Obamaniac I used to be.

[UtahDan]

Oh no one is disappointed. No one actually believes that any politician actually represents something different. The all get to where they are in the same way which makes all of them different varieties of the same species. I can't believe anyone believes it to be otherwise.

As I have said before, the change Obama represents is a change to classic liberal democrat policies and politics. If one believes that is what the country needs, so be it. But no one really things that he is anything other than the smoothest, newest, shiniest liberal democrat do they? Not anymore than anyone believes that Sarah Palin is a reformer when we all know her to be a magnificently packaged classic right wing conservative.

No one is this naive unless they are wilfully so. I mean it.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by Cali Coug

Byron York is being cited by all the conservative bloggers now as the last hope they have to say McCain's sex ed ad was even remotely true. Nobody with an ounce of sense is taking York seriously. The ad suggests that Obama was some kind of pervert who was promoting something along the lines of putting a condom on a cucumber. You know what the bill was supposed to do, and you know why Obama supported it (with broad bipartisan support, by the way). You know McCain was lying. You are trying to salvage some semblance of honor and dignity from the ad where there is none to be found. Unsurprising.

Thank you, Aaron Shaff.

[exUte]

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

You know, the McCain story is an interesting one. Last April he said that he promised to run a "respectful" campaign, but that gee-whiz you never know what those pesky 527s will come up with. That very month the pro-McCain 527s started airing ads about Obama's association with Wright. Since then there have been a non-stop string of "independent" ads slamming Obama, most of them misrepresentations or near-fabrications.

The negative ad campaigns have been enormously successful for McCain. Obama can either take the higher ground and, unlike McCain, stay true to his word to keep a "respectful," substance-based discourse, and subsequently watch McCain run away with the election. Or, alternately, he can try to stay competitive and start throwing his own ads out there. It seems he's decided to go with the latter, having given permission for pro-Obama 527s to form for the first time last week.

the primaries. Of course he never, in 20 years, sat in on one of those sermons.

[Tex]

Speaking of outright lies, the Obama campaign tears Limbaugh quotes out of context to tar McCain.

This is such a fabrication, it's truly hilarious. Obama is truly counting on people being stupid.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...he-fact-1.html