Damned if you do and damned if you don’t
July 31st, 2008 at 01:49pm Pat Cunningham
 From a REPORT by David Kiley at BusinessWeek.com:
“What the McCain campaign doesn’t want people to know, according to one GOP strategist I spoke with over the weekend, is that they had an ad script ready to go if Obama had visited the wounded troops saying that Obama was…wait for it…using wounded troops as campaign props. So, no matter which way Obama turned, McCain had an Obama bashing ad ready to launch. I guess that’s political hardball. But another word for it is the one word that most politicians are loathe to use about their opponents—a lie.”
I wouldn’t be surprised. Would you?
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1. Menlo Bob | July 31st, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Since we don’t know who the source for this is we don’t have the opportunity to get details. Howerver, we do know that Obama has previously visited wounded troops without such an ad being produced. Obama seems to have the expectation that it’s unfair to use him, his campaigning wife or any issues he mentions as fodder for such campaign commercials, and will complain about imaginary commercials.
2. Orlando Clay | July 31st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
This reminds me of something Maharushie El Rushbo said earlier this week during one of his rants about Obama. As you would expect from the Dean of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, he refers to Obama as an “empty suit who stumbles through interviews with an incredible number of ‘ums’ and ‘ahs’ ” However, when the decider-in-chief gets tongue-tied during one of his painfully embarrassing press conferences, El Rushbo paints it as a “slight inability to articulate that is wildly overblown by the drive-by media to undermine the President’s intellect. ”
What intellect would you be referring to, Rush?
3. Pat Cunningham | July 31st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Bob: And which “imaginary commercials” has Obama complained about?
4. Menlo Bob | July 31st, 2008 at 3:33 pm
Obama’s latest commercial.
5. Pat Cunningham | July 31st, 2008 at 3:53 pm
That’s pretty funny stuff, Bob, but it’s not an Obama commercial. And what about the “imaginary commercial” Obama’s complaining about?
6. Menlo Bob | July 31st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
“…according to one GOP strategist I spoke with over the weekend, is that they had an ad script ready to go if Obama had visited the wounded troops…”
That one.
7. Pat Cunningham | July 31st, 2008 at 4:24 pm
And when did Obama complain about that ad?
8. equalityrkfd= | July 31st, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Pat it sounds like you are damned if you do and damned if you don’t…no matter what you say or post someone will always say you are wrong, such is the political arena these days. Never understood why if you disagree with eveything said on a particular blog why keep reading it?
9. Pat Cunningham | July 31st, 2008 at 7:55 pm
ER (if you don’t mind my abbreviating your name): I don’t mind all the snarky feedback I get. Some of it is maddeningly stupid, but some of it keeps me on my toes, and I sometimes get caught making mistakes.
10. Milton Waddams | August 1st, 2008 at 8:54 am
Thanks Bob, for giving that kid a few more minutes…
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