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Originally Posted by Bucco
.......... Obama is almost certainly the smarter of the two and has done what is broadly viewed as a great job of running a 21st century political campaign without utilizing negative tactics.
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I am not sure what campaign you have been watching. No, Sen Obama engages in no negativism but his campaign sure does. Blaming Sen McCain's comments for the escalation in Georgia (NOT Sen Obama but his aide...Susan something or other on CNN)....calling various folks racists during the primary (NOT Sen Obama but his campaign)....saying using his name was unfair (NOT Sen Obama but his campaign), etc.
He is using old tactics to run his campaign...use the word CHANGE and keep your hands clean allowing your staff to do the dirty work. He is running at a time when we are in a unpopular war, struggling economy thus ANY Democrat should be winning and using that word. Sen Obama is not the genius you make him out to me but I am sure your measure of intelligence ("Obama is almost certainly the smarter of the two") is right on.
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The irony is that posts regarding Sen. Obama far outnumber posts regarding Sen. McCain. That seems to indicate a significant lack of information about Sen. Obama overall - both in him personally and professionally.
It really doesn't seem like there is an anti-Obama sentiment as much as there is an anti-"Trust Me" sentiment. In the land of the seasoned, Trust is earned, and Sen. Obama has had difficulty winning support from many due to this anti-"Trust Me" sentiment. It may be easy for many to follow a charismatic person wherever the charismatic person goes - definitely a trait of of the young and not-often-burned. Others want reliability to mesh with the charisma (me, for one) and truly want to see if we are missing something by not viewing the person with rose-colored glasses.
I spent a good deal of my life as a negotiator, and "No" really means "Yes, but..." to me. I'm looking for that reliability factor, combined with backbone, and the charisma means nothing other than slick salesmanship.
From the events over the last 8 months, it appears that the presidential race is really Sen. McCain versus the Democratic National Committee (with Sen. Obama being the designated "face" on the poster). I have witnessed many times Sen. McCain demonstrating "backbone" and being his own person, much to the dismay of the Republican National Committee and the current administration. So far, all I've seen of Sen. Obama is as an actor following the DNC-prescribed script, and never once taking a tack in the slightest from what the DNC dictates.
I'm hoping that Sen. Obama's supporters show me where I've missed Sen. Obama as being his own person, rather than as the Charlie McCarthy to the the DNC's Edgar Bergen. If there are going to be two males on the ballot, then I'd like the election to be won by a MAN rather than a parrotting spokesperson for a elitist committee concerned with its power ratio. If Sen. Obama is truly that kind of formidable MAN, please help provide the steak where there's only been sizzle. If we didn't want to know, we wouldn't challenge this much. We like to believe, but must be shown there is something adult to believe in.