Why Barack Obama Is Winning -- And Why McCain's Cynicism Is Losing

Here's the two key things you need to know about the Palin-McCain campaign's cynical new line of attack:

1. Barack Obama is way ahead of John McCain in this campaign. In fact, he's at or above 50% in three of the four national tracking polls, and leading in all of them.

2. The reason for McCain's slide in the polls is simple: While Barack Obama has focused his campaign on solutions to get this country out of the ditch that Bush-McCain policies have put us in, John McCain has focused his campaign around lies about his opponent and the glorification of his own personality and that of his running mate.

To put it in blunt terms, while Barack Obama has provided answers and solutions, John McCain has provided nothing.

And now John McCain is doubling down on his failed political strategy. He is now insourcing the Swiftboating slime machine that is the hallmark of Bush-Rove-McCain politics.

John McCain thinks the only way he can win this election is by destroying Barack Obama.

But he's wrong.

The problem for John McCain is that this election isn't about Barack Obama.

Story continues below

This election is about what's important to America at this crucial point in our nation's history.

It's about recovering from the disastrous Bush-McCain foreign policy legacy.

It's about recovering from this economic catastrophe unleashed by eight years of Republican economics.

It's about finally doing something about our energy and environmental problems.

It's about changing direction from the past eight years, and on that essential challenge, John McCain has nothing to say.

All he has is character attacks -- character attacks that just won't work.

If we wanted to play his game, we could go after McCain's fundraiser with G. Gordon Liddy who had advocated killing federal agents by shooting them in the face. We could make as a centerpiece of the campaign John McCain's vote against the seminal 1990s legislation that protected women's health clinics from anti-choice terrorists. We could talk about Sarah Palin's involvement with the pro-secessionist Alaskan Independence Party. We could savage her extremist witch-doctor religious freak show.

We could do all that, but that's not what this campaign is about.

This campaign is about the future of our country and the world. We have so many problems that are so serious and need to be dealt with.

Barack Obama is winning because has addressed these problems head on and talks about them every day. Because what matters to him -- and to us -- is delivering the change we need to start moving in the right direction.

John McCain is losing because the only thing that he has to offer is tired, old, recycled attacks on Barack Obama. The only thing he offers is the cynical politics of division. The only thing he offers is lies and deceit.

This November, we're going to move past John McCain, and we're going to close the door on the Bush era once and for all. We're going to leave it behind, in the past, where it belongs.

It's time to get something done for America, and the world.

Comments

[Dadeo]

A must watch video of the so called straight talk express. Watch and pass along.

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page...m/page/ 325.html

[garcia83]

oo can we pretty please attack john mccain and sarah palin's associates?

pretty please?

i want blooooooood. i want to shame them from even walking out of their house.

these republicans have messed up EVERYTHING. what will suck is when barack obama actually manages to make everyone comfortable with life again, and the culture wars commence.

if we shame them now, we won't have to later.

[T-Bear]

Questions: Why is it that the MSM calls an angry old cynical warmonger, who happens to be white, a Maverick? If Obama acted in such an erratic manner he would be called a non-trustworthy menacing Militant.

John InSane In the Membrane.

[TheGeicoCaveman]

__THAT OCTOBER SURPRISE IS HERE!!!!

BAMMMM!!!!

THE 2006 VETTING OF SARAH PALIN
***
COPIES FOUND IN THE ARIZONA DESERT

********* A complete 63 page report *********

A MUST READ FOR ALL AMERICANS

Over 159,460 PDF downloads

http://mudflats.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/palin-2006-vetting.pdf

[pragmatics101]

It's not just the cynacism; after closer inspection, people are realizing that McCain is not a Maverick at all. A Maverick is someone that takes an alternate viewpoint against all odds and due solely to deep personal conviction. Ideally, they're proven right in the end. McCain has most-often chosen positions in a petty and pigheaded manner, usually to advance himself, his friends, or to seemingly punish those that have crossed him. In going against his own party and everyone else, he hasn't proven himself anything but a Contrarian. I don't call this being a Maverick, it's called being a World-class Jerk.

[WhoDoUTrust]

What is John McCain's Record on Women's Health Issues?

1. The vote mentioned above occurred on Nov. 17, 1993.
See: "Senate Passes Abortion-Clinic Crime Bill" - http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE3DA1439F934A25752C1A965958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all

2. Women for Barack Obama cite the following McCain votes:

Comprehensive Sex Education - NO
Global Gag Rule - NO
International Family Planning Funding - NO
Emergency Contraception - NO
The Right to Choose - NO
Abortion Access for Women in the Military - NO
Abortion Ban - NO
Patient Privacy - NO
Comprehensive Family Planning - NO
Fetal Rights - NO
Teen Health and Safety - NO
Violence Against Reproductive Healthcare Providers - NO
Supreme Court Nominations - NO
Health Care for Low Income Families - NO

See http://www.womenforbarackobama.com/McCain.html#LOCATION2

3. Planned Parenthood presents a creepy future for women's health clinics in this You Tube video:
http://www.ppaction.org/campaign/housepartyvideo

[martymartymarty]

John McCain is losing because his campaign is about John McCain, not America. "Country First" my a**.

[WhoDoUTrust]

McCain's Radical Friend - G. Gordon Liddy

Convicted Watergate Burglar/Wire Tapper Liddy has a syndicated radio talk show - 250 stations - and this is a transcript from a Sept. 2005 broadcast:

Liddy: When the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms thugs come to kill your wife and children, to try to disarm you and they open fire on you. When they come at the point of a gun, force and violence, when you're going to defend yourself, use that Gerand [M-1 rifle]. That thing is 30-06, and it'll take 'em right out.

Caller: And yes, aim for the head.

Liddy: Absolutely.

If Bob Dole, Newt Gingrich or Oliver North missed the Sept. 15 show, the Sept. 6 show would have helped them understand this Republican supporter's character.

Liddy: Arm yourself. Get instructed in how to shoot straight.

Caller: I've got weapons.

Liddy: Absolutely. And don't give 'em up, and don't register either.

Caller: No way. And I'm aiming between the eyes.

Liddy: There you go. That way their flak jackets won't protect them.

See: http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1313
FAIR is Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, a media watchdog group policing against bias and censorship.

Also See: Huffington Post's own story about Liddy on May 5, 2008: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/05/g-gordon-liddy-john-mccai_n_100134.html

For More information on John McCain's other associates visit the official Democratic Party website at: http://www.democrats.org/a/2008/05/michigan_fundra.php.

[Icantbelieveher]

John McVain should really be careful with this line of ads, considering who is on his payroll!

And also, Keating-5! Say it ain't so John!

Glass houses and all that!

[independentfighter]

Barack, like Martin Luther King, is not going to take his eyes off the prize (to continue rebutting the attack ads and talk about the economy, energy, health care reform, regulating and overhauling the executive branch). That is what his campaign is built on and that will work.

[Icantbelieveher]

Remember in 1992 the entire campaign against Bill Clinton was based on Jennifer Flowers and Bill Clinton's character? We were fed up back then. After 8 years, Clinton cleaned up the economy and we all were doing pretty well. Then came Bush!!! We're right back at 1992, only it's much worse this time after 8 years with the worst president in American history!

People see McVain for what he is, which is desperate!!! People are looking for him to tell them what he will do to change the economic condition of this country and what does he give us? Attack ads. They don't work and I myself am sick of them!!!

Not gonna do it! Not at this juncture!

[lemonyashes]

How can anyone possibly believe McCain/Palin will reach across the aisle if they intend to do such attack ads? It's just another TACTIC in the rOVIAN style strategy, we will not be fooled again, these ads only appeal to the Republican base which is beyond me that they call themselves 'the true Christians".

[Frenchy9]

Great post! Thanks Jed.

[bossone]

Honestly Joe B doesnt say everything right, but I heard and saw his mom, she is a good women. Remember the story he told about fighting and she made him go back out and fight. It wasnt' to be mean it was just to show him to stand up for yourself. I can tell he comes from a family with good moral values.

[DCinFrance]

This is sarcasm right? My mother taught me that fighting doesn't solve anything and it doesn't make you right. She would go on to say that you may win the fight, but you haven't won the war.

[bossone]

The thought a SP meeting with leaders of Saudi Arabia and winking is horrifying. You all know what they will think of her!

[bossone]

McCzin is relying on those voters who kept Bush in office even though he was clearly failing, for 8 years . As long as he is white its alright. McCain is depending on legacy. It has worked in the past. But I believe that people have had enough. The republican party is depending on racism to prosper. They get million dollar bonus and bailouts. We get a $300.00 stimulus check. I go to a university with young people, the majority is voting Obama. They see their parents struggling. The world is watching.