Obama Camp Pre-Debate Memo: McCain Desperate, Unsteady, Erratic, Phony and Out-of-Touch

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September 26, 2008


TO: Interested Parties
FR: The Obama Campaign
RE: Home-field advantage: John McCain

Already declaring victory before the debate has even started, in ads running on the Wall Street Journal website, John McCain meets Barack Obama tonight to debate foreign policy - McCain's professed area of expertise.

The centerpiece of John McCain's campaign has been his more than a quarter century of experience in Washington learning about and debating foreign policy. If he slips up, makes a mistake, or fails to deliver a game-changing performance, it will be a serious blow to his campaign. Given his unsteady performance this week, he desperately needs to win this debate in a big way in order to change the topic and get back to his home turf.

For eight years, McCain has marched in lockstep with every single major Bush decision, while Barack Obama opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning and has called for a focus on Afghanistan and al Qaeda. Americans want to know whether John McCain will stop spending $10 billion in Iraq while the Iraqi government sits on a $79surplus and our economy is in turmoil. Will he continue a policy that has taken our eye off al Qaeda and Afghanistan, and let Iran make progress in building a nuclear weapon? Will he continue the cowboy diplomacy and empty bluster that has shredded our alliances and set back our standing in the world? The fact is, John McCain will continue more of these same failed foreign policies. Barack Obama will lead us in a new direction.

On the economy, McCain's words and actions over the course of the past week have illuminated his lack of expertise. He admitted he does not understand the economy -- his erratic, out-of-touch behavior this week, his failure to do anything of substance to move the agreement forward on the bailout, and his commitment to continuing Bush economic policies, demonstrate it. But there are some questions we might see answered tonight after McCain's misadventure to Washington and the phony ‘suspension' of his campaign. For example, will McCain finally say where he stands on the unworkable and counterproductive House Republican plan? Will he be willing to buck his own party?



http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs/earlyreturns/archive/2008/09/26/obama-on-offense.aspx

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1. kick

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[alstephenson]

2. k & r

[blm]

3. erratic is becoming the key word against Mccain.....

I posted a thread yesterday about Kerry's attack on McCain's antics - he has been specifically using the word erratic whenevr he comments on McCain. Dems have to press this description of McCain into the public arena as often as possible.

[malaise]

4. K & R

McPOW has really exploded into a buffoon this week. Imagine buying ads that you won before the debate - Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

GObama!

[newtothegame]

5. :)

[bvar22]

6. The ONLY card Mc has tonight....

...is the absurd claim that the "Surge" was a "success".

He will try to attack Obama with this.
Obama knows it.

I'm curious how Obama will respond.
There are several BIG avenues available to rebut McSame's attack.

Violence HAS been reduced, but no one ever disputed that would happen.
Put more cops on the street.....
BUT, where are we in the overall picture?

An Iranian domionated government in Baghdad asking us to leave.
An American armed Sunni group of Warlords in Anbar waiting for us to leave.
The Chinese have the inside track with the Baghdad government for the oil contracts.