{"id":2737,"date":"2008-09-03T20:45:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T00:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2737"},"modified":"2008-09-03T21:17:49","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T01:17:49","slug":"beware-evil-mccain-is-attacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2737","title":{"rendered":"Beware! Evil McCain is attacking."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest email from the Obama campaign has a high level of drama attached;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the next 36 hours, the McCain campaign will be pouring millions of dollars &#8212; if not tens of millions &#8212; into negative attack ads against Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>Before John McCain accepts the Republican nomination on Thursday, his campaign has to spend every last dollar of primary funds they&#8217;ve raked in from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs.<\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday, they aired a new negative ad in 14 swing states. His campaign manager even admitted that all McCain has to rely on is attacks, saying that for them, &#8220;This election is not about issues.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He doesn&#8217;t want Americans to notice that the Republican platform is the most extreme we&#8217;ve ever seen &#8212; opposing stem cell research, denying a woman&#8217;s right to choose no matter what the circumstance, and continuing to spend $10 billion a month in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>With so much at stake, we can&#8217;t allow another election to be determined by petty and divisive political tactics.<\/p>\n<p>Make a donation of $5 or more to fight back against an unprecedented week of negativity from John McCain.<\/p>\n<p>The McCain campaign is trying to distract voters from the real issues &#8212; so we&#8217;re going to focus on what they&#8217;re trying to hide.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve come out against the life-saving possibilities of stem cell research.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t even mention protecting equal pay for equal work.<\/p>\n<p>They support huge tax cuts for the wealthiest 2% of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve almost completely ignored the $10 billion we&#8217;re spending every month in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>And they make zero exceptions for a woman&#8217;s right to choose &#8212; even in cases of rape, incest, or to protect the life of the mother.<\/p>\n<p>If that all sounds like more of the same, that&#8217;s because it is. John McCain is offering a third term of the disastrous Bush agenda, so it&#8217;s no wonder his campaign would choose to focus on attacks instead of issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I remember in the 2000 and 2004 elections we were subjected to the same level of dishonest fear-mongering from the Democrats. I remember some SFB claimed Bush would recind the 14th Amendment and return Blacks to their slavemasters.<\/p>\n<p>Everything is an attack on Obama. McCain points out that he&#8217;s less experienced than Sarah Palin (using facts) and it&#8217;s an attack.<\/p>\n<p>The quote from Rick Davis, in it&#8217;s entirety is (<a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/2008\/09\/mccain_manager_this_election_i.html?hpid=topnews\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a> link);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This election is not about issues,&#8221; said Davis. &#8220;This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Davis added that issues will no doubt play a major role in the decisions undecided voters will make but that they won&#8217;t ultimately be conclusive. He added that the campaign has &#8220;ultimate faith&#8221; in the idea that the more voters get to know McCain and Barack Obama, the better the Republican nominee will do.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Democrats have moved the election away from issues by focusing on personalities. Obama beat Clinton, not on issues, but on personalities and some mumbo-jumbo about &#8220;change&#8221; and &#8220;hope&#8221;. There was hardly a sliver of light between between Obama and Clinton on issues.<\/p>\n<p>They selected Biden to strengthen the perception of their ticket &#8211; having nothing to do with issues.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve been attacking Palin, not on issues, but on personal and private details. They&#8217;ve been calling McCain a &#8220;third Bush term&#8221;. Punto. That&#8217;s not about issues, it&#8217;s about perceptions. What about this ad has to do with &#8220;issues&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube NZdi1JnMxFU nolink]<\/p>\n<p>Besides, what was so bad about the Bush years? The lowest sustained unemployment in history? Relatively well-managed inflation? The surprisingly quick economic recovery from a major attack on our mainland? The record-setting tax revenues? What?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let ya&#8217;all take apart the finer points of his email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest email from the Obama campaign has a high level of drama attached; In the &hellip; <a title=\"Beware! Evil McCain is attacking.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2737\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beware! Evil McCain is attacking.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}