Attacking McCain's perceived strengths: Obama gets it.

[smoogatz]

It's great to see Obama's team using military experts to jump on McCain's every bobble, inaccuracy, misrepresentation and misunderstanding of the facts on Iraq and national security. It's the one issue on which McCain leads in the polls: nothing in this election will be more important than discrediting McCain's bogus military "expertise."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Yes, and the key is teamwork

Using people like Wes Clark, who has a military background and is viewed as an expert in the field because of his years on TV helps enormously.

[Jack from Charlotte]

7. Wes Clark's comments were right on... McCain has never commanded anything...

larger than his Senate staff and a squad on an aircraft carrier.... or some such.

Mentioning the carrier was pointed, IMO... because a missile from McCain's plane "fell off" and killed about 140 guys.

Way to nail his ring thumbing ass, General.

[KittyWampus]

where are Clark's comments?

[PoliticalAmazon]

14. Ummm...Clark also endorsed Karl Rove's "math" that proved Hillary could win the primary....

I see a conflict here.

[Mz Pip]

16. He was a Hillary supporter

but has endorsed Obama. I won't hold it against him.

[PoliticalAmazon]

19. I think it raises the question: How can Clark be right about Rove and....

support Obama?

[Mz Pip]

21. Most people aren't right

about everything. They are right about some things, wrong about others.

[PoliticalAmazon]

22. True. But Rove is such a lightening rod for Democratic loathing. n/t

[Mz Pip]

23. I think by the time

they were quoting Rove math, they were getting to the point of desperation. It was more wishful thinking and denial rather than really believing it. They wanted it to be right. That's all they had left. :shrug:

[PoliticalAmazon]

24. but KARL ROVE! He's the Jeffrey Dahmer of politics! How could he endorse Karl Rove? n/t

[anonymous171]

2. Unlike Kerry who used his military experience to up his credibility,

McCain uses it as a shield. Anytime Obama attacks him he just snarls "I'M A WAR HERO."

[DerekJ]

3. Actually McCain is putting out "I'm a hero" Ads. (eom)

[smoogatz]

11. It's funny. In my father's generation (WWII), being a POW

would not make you a de facto war hero. And if you made propaganda films for the enemy, you could pretty much forget cashing in on your military cred as a politician.

[ninja8590]

8. well it didn't work very well for Kerry...wonder how it will go for McCain...haha. nt.

[blondeatlast]

9. HaHa. Bye-bye. nt

[Cha]

13. It's because the fucking mainstreamediawhores made

sure it didn't work. And, now the m$$m is mccain's base like they Pimped for bushits.

[Fire_brand]

4. Bush did it to Kerry in the swiftboat ads

Kerry's Vietnam service was seen as a strength, Bush hit him there.

I should add: I'm not saying that what Obama is doing is akin to "swiftboating," just that both are examples of hitting a candidate where's he's strong.

[TexasObserver]

5. I have been very pleasantly surprised with Obama's aggressiveness.

He's really taking it to McCain every day, responding rapidly within the same news cycle to any shit talking that sawed off little pecker head throws his way.

[Forkboy]

12. "Sawed off little pecker"

:rofl:

[TexasObserver]

15. He IS Cotton Hill, Hank Hill's father from King of the Hill!!

If you have seen that cranky little bastard, you'll know what I mean.

[Forkboy]

18. By jove, I think you've got it!

What a perfect comparison! :D

[Fleshdancer]

20. HAHAHA!!! You nailed it! Both are cranky, short, and sexist as hell

:rofl:

[blondeatlast]

6. 47 thousand possible military, national security, and foreign policy experts died in Viet Nam

by McCain's logic.

Possibly the one who WOULD HAVE paid attention to a mome that said "Osama bin Laden Determined to Strike in the US."

[Cha]

10. mccain is standing on his platform made of quicksand

..holding on to twig. Obama has the facts and the truth to rise above mccain's base, the mainstreamediawhores.

[BlooInBloo]

17. I stopped doubting Obama's tactical acumen months ago.