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Originally Posted by Sally Jo
This is Obama's MO. Destroy your opponent. In every election from the time he ran for Illinois state senator he has run his campaigns this way. The Chiago Sun-times, a Democrat paper, released a transcript of his 2008 "closing argument" spech. He said, "If you can't beat your opponent's ideas, you distort those ideas and maybe make some up."
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Originally Posted by Bucco
He has been this way his entire life. He did it and learned it well in Chicago in his days as an organizer. He is good at it, for sure. In my opinion this charge on a decent man is going to be his downfall. He is doing the class warfare thing (see the rich man..he bad)...he is really gone to a new low here.
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It's interesting to see how different people view the campaign tactics of the two candidates. Obama's "MO" is to destroy a good man, class warfare, etc. But Romney's campaign ads and stump speeches are different? His campaign is taking the "higher road", attempting to focus on the real issues? Really?
I'm certainly not defending the campaign tactics of the president, but are you really of the belief that Romney's negative campaigning and attack ads are any different? In my opinion, they're both the same. The campaign strategists, advertising people and speech writers are all the same. They're interchangeable between candidates and even between parties. They know what works and they manage their candidates very well. They are paid very well for what they do, what they get the candidates to say and do.
Actually, they manage he electorate very well. They keep the focus on the incidents and events which are meaningless to the real issues, but that they know will incense their targeted audience. Both the media and the electorate fall for it every time. Shame on us.