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The Note: Obama Running Bush Playbook
July 02, 2008 8:23 AM
ABC News' Rick Klein Reports in Wednesday's Note: So let’s get this straight:
One candidate is swiping a policy page from President Bush...
As well as a page from Karl Rove’s playbook...
And is trying to swipe a Bush Cabinet secretary...
While The Wall Street Journal editorial page places him as the president’s heir...
The president himself swipes one of that candidate’s funkier moves...
(And the candidate is letting him have it.)
Hint -- it’s the candidate who is currently in the United States of America.
Read the rest of The Note -- and get all the latest on the 2008 election, Congress, the White House and the wide world of politics every day -- from Rick Klein by bookmarking this link.
And it’s the candidate who right now might be sparking an interesting debate -- if only he could break through some surrogate silliness.
The inherent problem with the message-a-day campaign is that today’s only registers if yesterday’s story is closed. (And why, with Sen. John McCain stumping where the voters ain’t, is he talking faith-patriotism-service, not jobs-gas prices-economy?)
In the meantime, Sen. Barack Obama is not quite getting past retired Gen. Wesley Clark’s Sunday remarks -- and he can blame an aggressive McCain campaign, a stubborn Clark, another off-message surrogate -- plus his very own political instincts.
All of which combined to let McCain up the ante, just before landing in Colombia (when a political hit, by unwritten rule, would be verboten).
“I think it's up to Sen. Obama now to not only repudiate him, but to cut him loose,” McCain told reporters in the airspace between Indianapolis, Ind., and Cartagena, Colombia.
Continue reading today's Note by clicking HERE.
ABC News' John Santucci and Alexa Ainsworth contributed to this report.
July 2, 2008 in Hunter, Duncan, Kucinich, Dennis, Tancredo, Tom, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (9)
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The choices Obama makes about how he campaigns and the positions he takes are extremely consequential in how political issues in this country are perceived. In the last two weeks alone, Obama has done the following:
*intervened in a Democratic Congressional primary to support one of the worst Bush-enabling Blue Dogs over a credible, progressive challenger;
* announced his support for Bush's FISA bill, reversing himself completely on this issue;
* sided with the Scalia/Thomas faction in two highly charged Supreme Court decisions;
* repudiated Wesley Clark and embraced the patently false media narrative that Clark had "dishonored McCain's service" (and for the best commentary I've seen, by far, on the Clark matter, see this appropriately indignant piece by Iraq veteran Brandon Friedman);
* condemned MoveOn.org for its newspaper advertisement criticizing Gen. Petraeus;
* defended his own patriotism by impugning the patriotism of others, specifically those in what he described as the "the so-called counter-culture of the Sixties" for "attacking the symbols, and in extreme cases, the very idea, of America itself" and -- echoing Jeanne Kirkpatrick's 1984 RNC speech -- "blaming America for all that was wrong with the world";
* unveiled plans "to expand President Bush's program steering federal social service dollars to religious groups and -- in a move sure to cause controversy . . . letting religious charities that receive federal funding consider religion in employment decisions," a move that could "invite a storm of protest from those who view such faith requirements as discrimination" -- something not even the Bush faith programs allowed.
Posted by: Blue State | Jul 2, 2008 8:45:17 AM
dl
All I see is you and the rest of the Obama minions spinning like Iranian centrifuges.
Posted by: Blue State | Jul 2, 2008 9:08:50 AM
a leader we can believe in hAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
mccain you patriot
Posted by: bhrandon | Jul 2, 2008 9:27:42 AM
For me it was Hillary or bust.
Now it is McCain 08!!
Obama is so embarrassing His campaign is so ugly and filled with hate
Posted by: Khurram | Jul 2, 2008 11:31:26 AM
"For me it was Hillary or bust.
Now it is McCain 08!!"
Same here. No Obama ever. Country before party.
Posted by: Mack | Jul 2, 2008 12:02:19 PM
Remember when Obama, his lowdown, dirty staff and his lame brained supporters were crying about the remarks of Clinton supporters Geraldine Ferraro and Bob Johnson?
Tying then directly to Hillary and demanding that Hillary apologize and cut ties with these supporters.
How about when Obama stood on the stage next to a supporter who compared Bill Clinton to McCarthy?
Now that the shoes on the other foot, these same idiots are saying that Obama should not be held responsible for the words of his supporters.
Give me a brake.
Better yet, give me Hillary!
Posted by: ch | Jul 2, 2008 2:19:22 PM
My psychic insight is that Hillary will be president next year.
Posted by: Sedecla | Jul 2, 2008 9:47:35 PM
President Bill Clinton, why do you have to campaign for a loser like Obama?
He will not win the General Election because of what the DNC, the RBC and the Obama campaign race card did to H.R. Clinton I would not even talk to the creep.
Please I beg you Bill and Hillary Clinton do not campaign, nor raise money for the candidate Obama that was given the nomination.
Those who agree with this truth come and join us at PUMA PAC.
We are democrats who believe in one vote for one citizen and each and every vote should count. Ie., Florida and Michigan
Who believe, the new nominee for the Democratic Party Leadership should be elected by the people and not by the DNC, the RBC and the super delegates.
Thus, Obama is and will always be the illegitimate Democratic nominee.
And now the Obama campaign website thugs have been trying to shut down FREEDOM OF SPEECH on PUAM PAC web site, by disrupting the web page.
IS THIS THE AMERICAN WAY? ARE WE IN A DICTATORSHIP ALREADY?
Posted by: TerryDo | Jul 2, 2008 10:57:52 PM
So he's been Lying All Along!
It's Obama who's running for
Bush's Third Term!
Just Say No to Obama! No You Can't!
Posted by: reaganfan | Jul 5, 2008 12:19:39 AM
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