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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-08 11:37 PM
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What could hurt McCain's chances the most if it were repeated over and over and over
The right has tried every conceivable lie to use against Obama. Today someone I was volunteering with told me that the manager at Staples told her in the store that Obama was a terrorist. She also caught him following her and another woman as they put up Obama signs near our town. The signs are now gone. We are deciding how to deal with this.

But what I want to know is what legitimate can we use against McCain that we can repeat over and over to make it stick? What if we bought full page ads and placed them with that legitimate info?
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-08 11:44 PM
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1. The truth.
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-08 11:45 PM
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2. There is too much truth.
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iceman66 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-08 11:49 PM
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3. His complete and utter lack of integrity
Hiring KNOWN LIARS (i.e., the exact same people who spread lies about HIM in 2000) to concoct false negative ads about Obama.

If you ask me, that speaks volumes about McCain's character, or lack thereof.
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mrreowwr_kittty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-08 11:49 PM
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4. "He called his wife the c-word" nt
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rwheeler31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-08 11:55 PM
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5. How is your business doing?
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calmblueocean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-08 11:56 PM
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6. Honestly? It's a policy attack -- McCain gets elected, you might lose your heath insurance.
I still don't think most people understand what the news media have been quietly pointing out -- McCain's health care plan is meant to destroy the existing employer-based insurance market, and when it does, people who have any health problems are going to find themselves without health insurance, and unable to get it.

That's a huge deal. Obama has pointed it out a little, but usually his ads phrase the attack as "McCain wants to tax your health care," which is true, but undersells just how bad McCain's plan will be for millions of Americans who won't be able to get health insurance anymore, or won't be able to afford the insurance that they are offered.

I think if that argument gets out there over the next two weeks -- McCain is going to take away your employer-provided health care -- a lot of people would think twice about voting for the man.
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barack the house Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 12:00 AM
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7. His position on social security and his plans to cut medicare and medicaid.
Edited on Tue Oct-21-08 12:02 AM by barack the house
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JanusAscending Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 12:10 AM
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8. There you go!!!
That's the one !!Especially with the retirees in Fla. and Seniors all over the country. I know it's got me scared shitless!! Middle aged Americans have parents who would be affected as well. Young people have Grandparents they care about. This is a cross generational problem, and we need to use it, far and wide!!!
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political_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 12:20 AM
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9. McCain saying that the economy is completely sound. n/t
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pnwmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 12:44 AM
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10. The 20 second video of McCain saying excitedly how he voted for Bush in 2000,
he voted for him in 2004, and (paraphrasing), he was Bush's biggest supporter
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-08 01:06 AM
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11. Why can't these people reason that if Obama was a terrorist
he'd be in Guantanamo not the Senate?

These are the people that can't get into college because they failed the reading comprehension section of the SATs and ACTs...
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