Schumer urges Obama to hit back harder

[nsd]

One of the Democratic Party's leading electoral street fighters, New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, said that Barack Obama should respond to John McCain's personal attacks with an equally personal slap.

"I would not be afraid to attack back," said Schumer, who chairs the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, in an interview with Politico.

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Schumer didn't directly criticize Obama's strategy, but he argued for a higher-velocity response.

"When they say,'He's not one of us,' you don't say, 'Here's our plan on health care,'" he said.

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[margotb822]

1. Concur

McCain is an ugly character and the truth about him will be effective.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Hey Schumer:

What are YOU doing to respond to McCain???? How are YOU helping Obama????

[Malikshah]

3. Schumer...uh....STFU and try and get something done in Congress

You, Reid, Pelosi et al. have done F-all as of late. Maybe you'd like to recall your recent past w/ the Supreme Court fiasco?

[Gabi Hayes]

6. really....fuck HIM and his hedge fund buddies

he's one of the scuzziest creeps on that side of the aisle

very embarrassed to have the likes of him, Reid, Pelosi, Hoyer, etc, etc, 'representing' us.

[politicasista]

4. Has he been helping get Obama's message out?

if not, he needs to go sit down somewhere.

[ProSense]

5. Schumer: "I thought the Britney Spears commercial was powerful"

Good grief!

[Mass]

7. Schumer? The man who did not push against Alito and voted for Musakey, and is now

claiming he did not see what they would do and regrets it?

[Phx_Dem]

8. Schumer's a "street fighter?"

Could have fooled me. He's okay, but I would never describe him a tough or a fighter, any more than I would describe Tom Daschle as a figher. The Dems are sorely lacking in fighters, but we do have Rahm and he'd kick anyone's ass. I think. :think:

[tularetom]

9. BTW Schumer thanks for shoving Mukasey down our throat

[book_worm]

10. It's also not helpful for former Hillary supporters to publicly attack the nominee.

[BeyondGeography]

11. More rumblings from HillWorld

Fuck off already.

[Mass]

12. How about doing something for the Senate races, for example a video with the list of filibusters

the GOP has done, as the head of the DSCC.

[zulchzulu]

13. Shut your fucking piehole, Schumer

Don't you have your nose to pick?

[pleah]

14. Thanks to Schumer we have Mukasey. I don't

think I would be taking advice from him. :eyes:

[DFLforever]

15. Doesn't Schumer have a better connection to the Obama

campaign than Politico? If he's got suggestions for Obama, why doesn't he
share them with Obama or Axelrod rather than freaking Ben Smith.

But of course then we wouldn't know how much smarter he is...:eyes:

[Smarmie Doofus]

16. Can't stand him, but he's right.

So far , this is a rerun of Bush v. Dukakis.... with the Dukester ambling around western Massachusetts "looking presidential" while Atwater and Co "defined" him.

Sorry, imo, when McCain attacks, Obama should respond in kind. This stuff about a "new kind of politics" and "staying above negative politics" is patent BS, obvious as such to anyone remotely familiar with American history.

[qwlauren35]

17. I think a "small punch" would do.

Kind of like "it's the economy, stupid!"

He needs to point out that the McCain attacks are lame, and that the Republicans can't fight him on real issues, because they don't have real answers. Or the answers they have haven't worked for the past 8 years.

It's not quite the same as going negative. But I think it would be effective in diffusing the ads and then redirecting the people to the real problems at hand.

[Smarmie Doofus]

18. Yes ! The irony is....

... there is so much to work with. It is such a glaring freaking mismatch .....in terms of intelligence, energy, wisdom, personal appeal AND issues.... that Obama doesn't have to go nuclear to make the point.


But to do *nothing*, or to forgo agressively going after McCain's vulnerabilities.... which are both myriad and mammoth... is a fatal ( I hope not but I think so) error. Especially since McCain's the one on the offensive.

Lots of voters need to have the dots connected. Their interests are not especially political and they are moved by soundbites and vague impressions. Republicans have historically been adept at capitalizing on this fact.

Obama's task is to connect the dots.