Advice for Obama
What are McCain's strengths?
1) The media loves him. People hate the media. Show well-known pundits drooling over McCain and make fun of them (and McCain). Make McCain the poster-child for inside-the-Beltway-wankerism and out-of-touchness.
2) He's supposed to be a Maverick. Never lose an opportunity to point out how much of an orthodox right-winger McCain is on the issues. Never praise him for some alleged break with his party or independent stance he may have taken in the past. Don't say that he's changed from the maverick he once was. Say that he never was a maverick in the first place.
3) His military record and experience working on issues related to our national defense gives him an appearance of being qualified for the job. Point out how wrong McCain has been on predicting the future. Point it out over and over and over and over and over again.
Unless McCain's strengths are neutered, he will remain in contention. But his weaknesses need to be exploited as well. Chief among his weaknesses are his bad temperament, his poor relations with his senate colleagues, and his horrible reputation with the base of his party. Drive wedges between McCain and the rest of his party at every opportunity. This is the chief argument in favor of including Republicans and former Republicans in the campaign message machine.
McCain's positions on the issues are a weakness as well, but that should take second place to ripping him down off his pedestal and diving a wedge between him and his party.
When it comes to the national meta-narrative, it should be all about how McCain is the darling of the Beltway elite punditocracy, how he's a far-right winger that is indistinguishable from Bush/Cheney (shows no independence), and that he has no power of prediction (he makes horrible judgments). He's hot-tempered and distrusted by his colleagues, and he's showing age-related mental diminishment.
This is tough stuff, but it's all true. And this election is too important to leave things to chance. McCain needs a fist in his mouth every day so that he has no room to maneuver.
Change Your Staff!!!!
Obama,
Your advisors need to be fired.
Look at all the poor advice you have been receiving after moving to the top of the nominee list:
a) Instead of using your so-called great communication skills to convice the political center and right why they are wrong on most issues(if not all), you have caved in and shifted your positions closer to the right at the expense of the democratic base.
b) You could have been a hero standing up to weak bush over FISA; however, you caved in like some school girl because some advisor told you that you would appear weak on terror.
What they didn't tell you is that you validated all the crimes bush commited up until that vote.
Don't hide behind fellow dems that caved on FISA, because if the leader of the democratic party wouldn't stand up to bush, why should they.
Now really, if you didn't stand up to a weak GW Bush over FISA, what makes us believe that if you were in the U.S. Senate in 2002 you would had the backbone to standup to a very strong bush over the war resolution vote!!!!
c) Why did you embarass yourself and your political base by begging for votes in front of a political far right forum that only enhanced your opponent in the eyes of all. You didn't even demand to go last in the debate to prevent McSame from cheating through gaining access to the questions.
The final straw is that after giving up so much to McSame and he right wing nuts, you didn't get McSame to agree to appear infront of your base. That's not smart!!!
d) Finally, who on your team advised you to go against the democratic SuperDelegates. OK, you may have your reasons, I will address that later, but why not wait until you wrap up the nomination.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/20/obama_clinton_look...
Now I will explain why that is a terrible idea in 2012. If you eliminate or reduce the power of the superdelegates, then you give all the power to the corporate media to define and promote democratic candidates through their bias political programs.
Surely, if we did that, then the corporate media will only give access to those democratic candidates that they deem worthly. That worked well for you in the last primary, but do you think the corporate media should have even more control over the democratic candidates.
Maybe Huffery2000 was right. You and your supporters want to change the party and have no respect for those that have servered it for many decades.
Finally, in closing, I am begining to have serious concerns about your judgement. Not as much as I have about McSame, but you surely have to make improvements.
Thanks
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By KvnRJohnso407August 20, 2008 - 7:09pm