"McCain Is A Scumbag: It's Time For Barack To Take Him Down"

August 1, 2008
CommonDreams.org
McCain Slings from the Sewer While Obama Says Little
by David Michael Green

So, look, it’s now July. McCain has hired the known assassins, and they’ve already begun their work, a fact which became visibly obvious in the massively changed tenor of the McCain campaign this last week or two. So, Barack Baby, do I have to spell it out for you, my man? Can you not see the freight train that is headed your way? Must we have yet another example of Democratic roadkill, to join those of Dukakis, Gore, Cleland, Kerry and the rest, before one of you guys learns to throw a punch or two?

This is your swiftboat moment, dude. John Kerry waited three weeks to respond to the crap they threw at him, after which he might as well have gone off windsurfing and not bothered responding at all. Why are you not shredding McCain for lying about your Iraq trip and the canceled visit to wounded soldiers? (Even the media is pointing that out, despite the fact that they love McCain almost as much as they fear the GOP.) Why are you not disemboweling McCain every day of the week, every week of the month, for his outrageous allegation that you are sacrificing lives in order to win an election?

And why aren’t you on the offensive? McCain has given you openings you should be able to drive a Mack truck through, and you need to be saturating the airwaves with these. Why isn’t every other television commercial a viewer sees one of yours, showing Phil Gramm calling Americans “whiners” for feeling economic pain, showing McCain saying “Gramm doesn’t speak for me,” then noting that Gramm in fact spoke on behalf of McCain to the Wall Street Journal on that very same day? Why aren’t you running ads turning McCain into George Bush’s long lost Siamese twin? Why aren’t you hammering McCain at his point of greatest strength, undercutting his so-called national security credentials by showing clips of all his errors, including before the war began when he said it would go easily, during the early parts when he said it was going fine, his absurdly bogus Baghdad market walk-through, and his myriad recent gaffes which suggest his brain clicked off sometime in the 1980s?

Despite the fact that the candidate has now issued a semi-strong rebuttal spot two weeks into this ugliness, I must say, I liked the Barack Obama of the primary season better than the current model. I liked his politics and his integrity more, but most of all I liked his fighting spirit, and his immediate response to scurrilous attacks.

It’s time for you to take him down.

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http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/01/10739/

I'd like to see this photo at the end of many TV commercials and in newspaper ads with the caption:

4 MORE YEARS!

Because no one is paying any attention, that's why. Money spent now is money down the toilet. When summer is over, and people are starting to think about the presidential election, THEN is the time to strike.

WTF is his campaign doing with all our money? Issuing some statement isn't gonna do it. One or two one-liners at a town hall meeting that you HOPE will get coverage in the news - ISN'T ENOUGH.

He's about three commercials behind mcsame in this. For heaven's sakes, he can't plead poverty here. EVERY DAY there should be a new one, either answering and IMMEDIATELY hitting back and striking down what mcsame's attack ads put out, OR launching his own attack ads. There is virtually NO attempt on our guy's side to try and provoke really serious doubt about mcsame the way mcsame's campaign seems to be doing rather effectively against Obama. And unfortunately you can't just take the high road and assume the best of the American people. You HAVE to launch a two-pronged campaign, both positive (about yourself - giving people reasons why they should vote FOR you) AND NEGATIVE (about the opponent - giving people reasons why they should vote AGAINST him, or doubt him, or fear him, or question whether he's "one of us").

The infuriating thing is - we have seen this in two consecutive presidential election cycles - and our people STILL haven't learned anything. And the mcsame people are going to soften Obama up so much that they'll make it close enough to steal. AGAIN.

And point out how McCain is their boy.

Bottom line .... it's all about class! The have's and the have mores versus the working majority.