RNC Mailer: If Obama Was Your Doctor, You'd Get Another Doctor

A new anti-Obama mailer from the Republican Party hit voters late this weekend, and it goes after the Democratic candidate for being so dangerously inexperienced that "if he was your doctor...you'd call another doctor."

Readers in North Carolina and Pennsylvania sent over alternate versions of the same piece - the latest to go hard after the Illinois Democrat for being wet behind the ears. One copy contains a curious new charge:

"Casting a vote in the U.S. Senate only 291 days, the equivalent of working 9.5 months, Obama is still new to the job."

Beyond that, the material offers fairly boilerplate digs about Obama lacking the gravitas or years to handle the job of president, including a nod of sorts to Joe the Plumber.

"If he was in the army...you'd call him a private. If he was an athlete...you'd call him a rookie. If he was a plumber...you'd call him an apprentice. If he was a student...you'd call him a freshman."

Viewed from afar, the charge that Obama lacks the experience to handle the job seems electorally non-fruitful; not least because McCain's decision to put Sarah Palin on his ticket effective removed such an argument from the table. Part of the reason that these past few weeks have proved so utterly damaging to the GOP is that voters were able to witness the two candidates handling a crisis in real time. And overwhelmingly they favored Obama's approach. Time in Washington, in short, was trumped by the capacity to calm the public's nerves. While McCain has the former, opinion polls suggest people preferred the latter.

Comments

[johnb3950]

If I had cancer, and McCain was my doctor, he'd say I was fundamentally sound.

[TomTheAlmostUgly]

If McCain was my doctor, he'd be tasting my urine to diagnose me and using leeches to treat me.

[Moshe]

Yes, but only because Dr. Obama is going to be the next president, and therefore no longer has time to practice medicine.

[amerifun]

If McCain was a Doctor , we'd all be better off.

[Moshe]

I'm not sure his patients or his staff would be . . . he's a little cranky.

[revjmike]

I, for one, am not likely to prefer a doctor who graduated near the bottom of his class and who doesn't seem to take education too seriously.

[Levittown]

If McCain was a doctor he would not qualify for malpractice insurance. He is too eratic, temper tantrums and vulgarities spew from mouth at a moments notice. He is not consistent in voting. He brags on the veterans but never votes for their benefits and
and they know it. surprisingly very few in the armed forces, including naval officers
think he is qualified for Commander-in-Chief. There is so much in his resume that does not compute it is a shock to many that the Republican party let a Senator who boasts that he voted with Bush 90 % of the time and keep Bush and Cheney on parade.

[twofish]

Well, yeah, because then he'd be out of politics and only a menace to his own patients. But if he was MY doctor, I'd be dead by now.

[MsYellowDog]

Except for the poor souls who were his patients.

[foxfan]

Maybe Obama can address all of these issues in Wednesday's special, "It's the Great Pumpkin Barack Obama".

[ladydriver]

No, dear, it's "President­"...."It's the Great President, Barack Obama".

Keep coming back.

[AeschyDan]

..and if he were my plumber, my house would be full of, well...

[Lombard42]

If Palin was my doctor, I'd be dead.

[sus2222]

If McCain was my doctor. YIKES !!!!

As a PILOT he crashed ( CRASHED ) 5 planes.
4 of them from PILOT ERROR !!!!

What a PILOT !

That surely qualifies him for Hero or PRESIDENT or something?­??????????

[MrVee]

http://www.youtube.com/v/FvM3_ZH9euc&color1

Seems McCain was for spreading the wealth before he was against it.

-Mrvee

[Peddler]

Dr. Obama has done some "serious surgery" on McCain's campaign--he is more than qualified.

[mmorning2]

I wouldn't let my doctor be a forgetful, stubborn, hot-headed 72 year old who should have retired at 65.

[SwingVoter]

I have been getting lots of mailer here in FL. Nothing too outrageous so far though--there was on Resko--which is fair, but has nothing to do with any issue and it is the reason McCain will lose. He wants to continue talking about Obama instead his plans.

[SwingVoter]

The same could be said for McCain who may forget an instrument in you.

[Soundofthunder]

Palin cannot recite the job of VP, in FOUR TRIES she got it wrong. A job that has TWO responsibilities yet she can't remember the details. But Obama's "dangerously inexperienced"?

McCain is dangerously arrogant, ignorant and enraged. Unfit to serve as president, senator or janitor, John McCain needs to resign and crawl back to one of his array of homes and stay there, permanently.

SOT

[patianneb]

So a 72 year old crap-shooting doctor with a PA who hasn't read or doesn't understand her job description and assumes she's qualified to operate because the office subscribes to "Cutter Weekly" is preferable to an under-50 physician who, if he isn't sure of a diagnosis, calls in world's leading experts to find the most efficient, least invasive cure?
Uh huh.

[ladydriver]

Oooooohhhhhh! That was a good one, patianneb!