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Originally Posted by SteveZ
Sen. Obama's "Muslim background" will get put to bed as soon as the two-person campaign gets underway. Sen. McCain has publically chastised his supporters who have stressed Sen Obama's middle name, and say what you want about Sen. McCain, he himself will turn it into a non-issue.
Sen. Obama appears to be trying to do the same with his supporters who are hawking the "age card." Hopefully, that will continue to occur.
If these gentlemen indeed mimic the Lincoln-Douglas type of open debates during the campaign, then perhaps the real-meat issues will be discussed to include their respectives positions. Wouldn't that be unique - neither candidate being able to post-election alibi that personal demographic was scandalized by the other, and the election centered on position versus profile.
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Steve, as much as most would like to see a Lincoln-Douglas issues debate as the center of the campaign, even when we reach the 1-on-1 stage, it ain't gonna happen. As long as there are 527s, there will be slime. These creations are not and cannot by law be coordinated with and controlled by the candidates campaign. And there will be slime as long as we have the Daily Kos and Huffington Post on the left and nut job bible pounders on the right. There will be slime as long as we have right wing talk shows like Savage and Cunningham and ultraliberal television MSNBC and Keith Olbermann. Any logical person recognizes the liberal slant of the "main stream media" and this is something with which one can live. But much of it has given up any pretense of objectivity a la the New York Times. And look for the deluge of mainstream televising shows and TV movies that will have "liberal" messages in October. And this will all be beyond the control of the candidates.