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It's not just Obama who's had it with the attacks by McCain and Palin -- his supporters are angry, too. FT reports that Obama fans are ready to fight. "I had become complacent," said one volunteer. "I thought the election was in the bag. Then, all of a sudden, we've got this big fight on our hands."
Another says Obama needs to attack, but "in a way that's truthful and honorable and gets us back on the issues." Good luck with that. There's nothing the media loves more than a truthful discussion of the issues.
Yet another is perhaps a bit too honest: "I cannot believe that 80 per cent of this country thinks we're headed in the wrong direction yet 50 per cent are supporting McCain and Palin. I guess it's like at school, there's always got to be a bottom 50 per cent."
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posted 10:37 am on 09/16/2008
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But it seems to me that the McCain "celebrity ads", especially the one where you hear crowds and see flashbulbs and it ends with an empty stadium and more or less says he isn't anymore than this "celebrity." has worked wonders to get Obama and his ads and supporters to be very wonky and unhinged and work against his strengths.
Obama has the ability to inspire, to draw together the common threads among people who are very different, to get lots of people fired up and at least willing to listen to each other. Kennedy could do that. Both
Roosevelts. Martin Luther King. And, yes, Oprah for christs sakes. Candidates can make promises and play to various groups. Only real leaders can say things like "Ask not what what your country can do for you, but what can you do for your country." Real leaders encourage the best in people. Real leaders "have a dream."
Having charisma isn't a negative. Why should Obama be shamed for this?
The country will "change" with either candidate. (God I hate that word now.) Who will improve it? Should our taxes/my net income be the be all of everything. Or should we have a leader who can lead, who is heartfelt, who believes in our better selves.
Discrediting Obama's celebrity is the McCain's camps way of saying, in my mind, that McCain isn't a leader. That he can not inspire. McCain's celebrity is for solitary confinement, for being disagreeable. Do we want those qualities prominent in a president???
posted 10:25 pm on 09/15/2008
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