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Originally Posted by cherrylula
What is the point?
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The point is Obama has run a campaign on the issues; McCain has run a smear campaign. I'm not claiming to have seen every commercial either of the candidates produced/endorsed, but it seems like an overwhelming majority of ads from McCain don't talk about issues concerning America, but rather issues his campaign has erroneously dug up on Obama.
You don't like his tax plan? Fine. You don't like his take on medical insurance? Fine. You don't like how he will treat big business and wall street? Fine.
If Obama was a white guy, I'm not sure how the McCain campaign would go. Would he still be a terrorist? Would he still be a Muslim? Would he still have no birth certificate? Would he still be anti-American? Would he still be an organizer of ACORN? Would he still be best friends with Raila Odinga, Rashid Khalidi, William Ayers? Would he still take advice from Fannie Mae execs? Would he still have spoken to Iraqi government to secretly ignore Bush policy?
I guess when you don't have a leg to stand on, you have to stretch for anything you can get. And it sucks that when Obama wins, he will still fight for all those rotten scoundrels spreading those lies.
What you won't hear from this campaign or this party is the kind of politics that uses religion as a wedge, and patriotism as a bludgeon - that sees our opponents not as competitors to challenge, but enemies to demonize. - Obama, June 3, 2008
And for Ryan's gun concerns in the other thread:
I am very mindful of the fact that sportsmen in America may have gone hunting with their fathers, their grandfathers, their mothers, their grandmothers, and that this is part of a tradition and a way of life that has to be preserved. And there’s nothing that I will do as president of the United States that will in any way encroach on the ability of sportsmen to continue that tradition. - Obama