<p>“This describes my republican relatives to a T. I keep telling them Obama is going to be the next president, but they think I’m on drugs.”</p>
<p>The latest Obama ads in TX are geared towards those naive republicans.</p>
<p>funding father it seems that the honeymoon is over. SNL sketches did it.</p>
<p>I was telling someone at the gym today that I think the return of the writers and the renewed venue of political humor had reopened the conversation…humor is a reality check, for sure. It is hard for any mania to continued unchallenged, when it is mocked.</p>
<p>“Many are claiming Obama is as centrist as Hillary, so attacks FF is anticipating won’t be successful.”</p>
<p>They may be “claiming” this, but his voting record and public statements do not support this. He is so far left that he is quite vulnerable.</p>
<p>ITA, angelica. That’s why I think McCain will have to tread lightly when going after Obama. Can’t look unstable. He already looks old, like Bob Dole did when he ran.</p>
<p>What did you all think about Gloria Steinem and Wesley Clark’s comments about Senator McCain?</p>
<p>Link, zoosermom? I haven’t read/heard them …</p>
<p>If Clinton is the nominee, she’ll retire her “experience” theme and turn it into “the candidate for change.” Her supporters are already saying that Hilary is the real candidate for change, she’s always been a “change maker”, etc.<br>
They’re not dumb enough to attack McCain on experience.<br>
She’s already changed her mind (so she says) about the war so that she can better oppose McCain and nutralize one of Obama’s biggest draws. She’ll be whatever she needs to be to win.
That’s what I don’t like about her.</p>
<p>McCain shares this trait. Exactly how does this “maverick” differ from Bush on policy, I’d like to know? His foreign policy and economic policies will be the same.</p>
<p>Here’s one link to STeinem, but the story’s all over the place.</p>
<p>Here’s a link on Clark, but it’s also available elsewhere if anyone doesn’t like my choice.</p>
<p>[McCain</a> Lacks Experience To Be President, Army General Says](<a href=“http://www.kutv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=08261099-617d-475c-9c4a-5f6210101def]McCain”>http://www.kutv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=08261099-617d-475c-9c4a-5f6210101def)</p>
<p>The Clinton campaign has tried to “expose” Obama immediately prior to the most important primaries of her political career. Unfortunately, Hillary has done everything “bad” that she and her campaign have accused Obama of doing !!</p>
<p>I think Obama has again taken the high road by pretty much minimizing her unsubstantiated accusations at this point. </p>
<p>(Obama really hasn’t focused on Hillary and NAFTA, Hillary and Hsu, Hillary and Whitewater, Hillary and Vince Foster, Hillary and her tax returns, etc. etc. etc.)</p>
<p>Many voters will admire his restraint. They see Hillary as a desperate candidate who wants to win at all cost, no matter the damage to the party.</p>
<p>I wonder if Clark is on Clinton’s short, short list for VP.</p>
<p>“I wonder if Clark is on Clinton’s short, short list for VP.”</p>
<p>I bet he thinks he is.</p>
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<p>Oh come now. Lots of ordinary Americans have weathered crisis that most people couldn’t imagine holding up under—doesn’t make them capable of being POTUS. Repeated personal crisis is a pretty low threshold for “preparedness” to run a nation. But. if you insist on throwing that into the mix, John McCain (once again) beats Hillary by a mile: Five years of torture, beatings, and malnutrition in a Vietnamese Prison Camp (two of which were spent in solitary confinement), trump Hillary’s prior White House woes by a mile.</p>
<p>I won’t respond. Will go for a Kool-Aid</p>
<p>Thanks for the links.</p>
<p>I think there is some validity to what each of them says, but I don’t think the avg voter wants to go there. Looks like they’re dumping on a legitimate war hero, and that’s distasteful.</p>
<p>Kool-Aid was a term first used to describe the Clinton obsessed. I think many posters have already drunk from that cup. ;)</p>
<p>the legitimate war hero is running for Pres. You expect him to be handled with kid gloves because of what happened to him 40 years ago? Sorry, that’s not how it works. Being a war hero, as honorable as that is by itself, does not mean his is more capable of being a good POTUS than someone who was not a war hero.</p>
<p>Whoever the Dem candidate turns out to be, how do you think they’ll address the age differential? I remember how “old” Reagan seemed when he was elected, and isn’t McCain 2 or 3 years older than he was when he was elected? I don’t think that the Dem campaigning would be so brazen as to say it specifically, but I’m sure they’ll want everyone in the U.S. thinking long and hard about it. Remembering Reagan’s naps every day? And the “forgetting” that started showing up at the end of his tenure??? Having a mother and a mother-in-law in their early 70’s, I know they both have their “flaky days”. I’m not sure we want a Pres to have those…or do we rely on all his advisors to carry on and take over if/when that happens? I’m not trying to be an age-bigot (altho it sure sounds that way), but the future president’s age/potential health issues has got to be a factor, right?</p>
<p>“Nobody minded when he was swiftboated after the S.C. primary the last election.”</p>
<p>Link to what you, personally, are referring to, please? Not the general and much disputed conflict in 2000, but references to attacks (particularly valid ones) upon Senator McCain’s military service.</p>
<p>astromom-I think sexism is a larger factor than ageism.
I also think Bush has proven that daffiness is not necessarily age related.</p>