GOP Lost The More Powerful Smear That Obama is a Muslim

[DrFunkenstein]

Obama is a nimble politician and much will change with the Rev. Wright situation as other headlines, like a tanking economy and no political progress in Iraq, take center stage.

If conservatives like Pat Buchanan try to paint Obama as Malcolm X, where do you really think moderates will turn? The reality of Obama's unifying personality has time on its side, since we have months and months to correct the record.

Meanwhile, new Obama will be up against crusty McCain and arguing that everyone will be able to afford quality health care if he is President.

Meanwhile, it was far more difficult for Obama to deal with a stealth campaign labelling him a Muslim, simply because the bigger the lie, the easier it is swallowed.

No one will doubt that Obama is a Christian ever again. As crazy as it sounds, Obama will have a much easier time dealing with the fallout of Rev. Wright than he will against an underground e-mail attack that plays upon questions of his funny-sounding name.

Now that the media is finally understanding the Clinton cannot possibly win the nomination, the campaign is going to take a far different turn. You will have two candidates presenting very different policy agendas and visions of the world, in many ways reinforcing their generational differences. The coverage will become much more policy oriented, but in a way that is backed up by Obama's symbolism as the next generation of politics.

McCain is like Gen. MacArthur's famous quote that old soldiers don't die, they just fade away. With the election, like 2004, coming down to enthusiasm, fundraising and turnout, Obama is going to take the national vote convincingly. It will not be a matter of polls, but a matter of who comes out to vote.

Like all every election cycle, all candidates have a moment of crisis and how they respond to that crisis determines their fate. Obama has made political courage forever tied to his response as he demonstrated his politics of transcendence under heavy fire.

Moreover, he gained the unforeseen benefit of effectively ending the Muslim smear campaign. No matter how many political rivals try to smear him with pictures of him dressed in Muslim clothes, Obama is now obviously a Christian.

[NashVegas]

1. Don't Worry, They'll Find More

[FogerRox]

6. They hoped to strike Obama out, but he hit a 3-2 pitch to the wall, and got a stand up triple

If that how Obama handles a fast ball...... then pitch away at him. Obama will hit his share of long balls.

[Radical Activist]

2. Good point.

And people also see him as a religious person which helps with a lot of voters.

[better tomorrow]

3. GOP Internet rumor minus 1.....Wright YouTube video showing him a Christian plus 2

[Blue State Bandit]

4. Smear becomes political inoculation!

Not only with regard to the "Muslim" smear, but McCain can't use the Wright scandal without instigating attacks using Falwell (gays and libs caused 9/11), Hagee (Catholics are whores), and Parsley (America founded to destroy Islam) to shut him down.

Thank you right wing goofballs!

[FogerRox]

7. Right, Obama hit a 3-2 smear ball for a stand up triple. NExt time he sees the smear ball

he might hit it out of the park..........

Obama runs the bases well, note the timing of the Richardson gig. Richardson gets a sacrifice fly to Score Obama.

[DrFunkenstein]

8. (AP) McCain: I learned from Keating Five case

WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain's ethics entanglement with a wealthy banker ultimately convicted of swindling investors was such a disturbing, formative experience in his political career that he compares the scandal in some ways to the five years he was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

In his early days as a freshman senator, McCain was known for accepting contributions from Charles Keating Jr., flying to the banker's home in the Bahamas on company planes and taking up Keating's cause with U.S. financial regulators as they investigated him.

Keating and his associates raised $1.3 million combined for the campaigns and political causes of all five. McCain's campaigns received $112,000.

The investigation ended in early 1991 with a rebuke that McCain "exercised poor judgment in intervening with the regulators." But the Senate ethics committee also determined McCain's actions "were not improper nor attended with gross negligence."

McCain has claimed the Keating scandal sensitized him even to the appearance of potential conflicts of interest. But in recent weeks, McCain has defended himself anew over another instance in which he intervened with federal regulators on behalf of a prominent campaign contributor — years ago but after the Keating rebuke. Again, McCain denies acting improperly.

Now famously accessible to reporters as a presidential candidate, McCain conducted a poisonous newspaper interview nearly 20 years ago with his hometown Arizona Republic. Flashing his quick temper, he insulted, cursed and hung up on reporters questioning him about his ties to Keating. He said he now recognizes it was the worst way to respond.

"Taking all the questions and making your arguments is the only way you can prevent an unfair or injurious public perception becoming fixed," McCain said.

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Keating sought a quid pro quo from the five. He wanted government regulators, who were investigating Lincoln, off his back. And he demanded reversal of a new rule limiting an S&L's direct investment in risky ventures to 10 percent of assets.

The banker's attitude was summed up the day a reporter asked whether his political donations to the senators encouraged their intervention.

"I want to say in the most forceful way I can, I certainly hope so," Keating replied.

But McCain had an additional image problem beyond the intervention and his acceptance of Keating's cash. The two former Navy pilots had become good friends, until the day Keating decided McCain wasn't doing enough for him and called the Arizona senator a wimp. Keating had flown McCain and his family on several occasions to his home in the Bahamas and other locations.

When his company tried to take tax deductions for the trips, the IRS raised questions. McCain, who said he mistakenly thought his wife had reimbursed the cost, paid back more than $13,000 — years after the trips and after the senator knew of Keating's problems with the government.

McCain, in his book "Worth the Fighting For," lamented that the senators "were now a two-word shorthand for the entire savings and loan debacle and the rotten way American political campaigns are financed."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080323/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_keating_4

[FogerRox]

5. Yes Dr, that is the net result. Obama is Christian, in fact he just switched frrom Muslem.

..... like a week or 2 ago.... honest injun....

[Mz Pip]

9. Muslim descent seems to be enough for some

I got this last night. :eyes: The crazies can keep it going with just bizarro funndy nonsense.



<< A friend of mine sent this to me. It is definitely food for thought.


According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ is:
The anti-christ will be a man, in his 40s, of MUSLIM descent, who will deceive the nations with persuasive language, and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal....the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace, and when he is in power, will destroy everything. Is it OBAMA?



I STRONGLY URGE each one of you to re-post this as many times as you can! Each opportunity that you have to send it to a friend or media outlet...do it!

I refuse to take a chance on this unknown candidate who came out of nowhere...>>