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WAR MORE YEARS!
Well 51% of us Americans anyway was the headline 4 years ago in the Daily Mirror a British Publication. WAR MORE YEARS! Stood out like a red neon sign and I just never forgot that headline . I was reminded when the Rovian attacks began and took a nasty turn on Obama and suddenly its déjà vu, just as before only it's 2008, more groundhog days to come. I remember it blaringly then and I see it now, we are headed to the same fate as what happened with John Kerry, we had better wake up and pay attention! It is troubling that I see the snooze button seems to be on in the Obama campaign and that alarm needs to be shut off immediately and it cannot afford to be taken for granted. Not now, not tomorrow and not another day which can prove to be too late.
McCain and campaign is driving this bus and hope to pick up the same lost passengers and driving down the same old traveled road. These attacks are not designed to be subtle. What's subtle is the response from the Obama campaign. They appear shocked that McCain went negative why? They say he's honorable but running a dishonorable campaign? Are you kidding? Maybe the McCain 2000 version would have run an honorable campaign; after all he was the brunt of a dishonorable one, but not now. Many are not shocked, saw it coming.
If this does not all take on a familiar air again, it should and if you don't want the same for the next 4 years you had better pay attention. It has begun, it starts off quite elementary. The old attack your opponent day after day, pound him in the ground, no rules and whatever lands. Smear and attack daily your opponent's integrity, honesty, religious values and above all attack and attack patriotism, hates the troops etc. Majority of Americans will tell you they don't like attack ads. Read the headline above one more time, they don't work? It worked 4 years ago and it will work again if the sector of our society who does not want the proposition of a repeat performance of the last 4 years does not wake up.
The injection of the race card did not crop up by accident with the McCain campaign, which is why the media's antennae went up immediately. It just came sooner than expected. Obama never pointed to the McCain campaign when he spoke of not looking like those Presidents on the dollar bill. He has said this in the past before and it's no different when he ran against Hillary. He used the word "they" and sadly "they" out there exist. They are that sector of Americans who still believe ignorant of facts or not that Obama is a terrorist Muslim and will not be convinced otherwise. They are rampant with hateful views online but McCain doesn't use the internet so he wouldn't know. Simply stated, the McCain campaign was seeking an opening to make McCain the victim and Obama the perpetrator of falsely bringing race into the campaign, which is why it took a couple of days for them to bring on the fake outrage. "They" and McCain won, the media is salivating in wall to wall coverage, now that McCain said it. . Ironically, this never happens as McCain repeatedly gets a free pass with the media while Obama's every word is scrutinized.
We Americans will not be talking about issues, or the economy or the war, how much it is costing us, health insurance etc. We won't pay attention to gaffe after gaffe that McCain made in less than one week, that social security is a disgrace comment or the 1.1 million dollars he received in fundraising from the oil companies for his stance on offshore drilling.
We won't talk about the surge that McCain tried to arm wrestle Obama into admitting worked but in the meantime flubbed on the awakening timetable leading up to the surge, who used the word timetable then said he didn't use the word. Yet, can't concede to Obama, or the American public that we should not have gone into war with Iraq in the first place. Well, my friends this is serious and the old politics of attack as you now bear witness to is a preview and it has fiercely begun. The attacks will be childish, stupid and even baseless. They will stoop to mocking religion and call it comedy, but this in history will go down as a historical but also the most brutal campaign ever. When you don't have a message like McCain and company, your only hope to win is to play and latch on to old time politics and make your opponent the issue. If you notice it's now carte blanche for McCain to repeat that Obama is playing the race card, he is becoming comfortable trying out his new shoes, trying out the fit. Some of us "get it".
We are the sector that "gets", and are not blind to, what once worked effectively will work again to America's detriment. Remember John Kerry, and look at the current condition of our state of affairs. Surely the 59,054,087 people or 51% of Americans thought Bush would be good for America. 71% now don't think so, but Obama and McCain are running neck to neck. You have to talk about it, plead to not those 29% but to those Americans who felt they were asleep 4 years ago to please wake up, not again. More importantly, Obama Campaign wake up, you had better turn off the snooze button, forget if it's old politics, you can't be John Kerry and get swift boated out of here, and you cannot be defined by them. You cannot allow the nasty impolite conversation McCain wants to have with America go uninterrupted by you. Not for 59,054,087 people or 51% or more of us Americans.
