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Barack Obama’s call for ‘new politics’ is officially over.
Jun 15, 2008 | 12:57 PM
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June 14, 2008
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The McCain campaign and RNC are pouncing on another line from the Obama pool report:

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama said in Philadelphia last night. “Because from what I understand, folks in Philly like a good brawl. I’ve seen Eagles fans.”

McCain and the RNC took on the comment in terms that will be very familiar to people who followed Clinton campaign statements last year:

“Barack Obama’s call for ‘new politics’ is officially over. In just 24 hours, Barack Obama attacked one of America’s pioneering women CEOs, rejected a series of joint bipartisan town halls, and said that if there’s a political knife fight, he’d bring a gun," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds said, referring also to the Obama campaign's shot at Carly Fiorina's lavish pay package and role in layoffs at Hewlett-Packard.

“Why is Barack Obama so negative? In the last 24 hours, he’s completely abandoned his campaign’s call for ‘new politics,’ equating the election to a ‘brawl’ and promising to ‘bring a gun,' " said the RNC's Alex Conant.

Obama doesn't actually use the phrase "new politics" a lot, and this is a box that the Clinton campaign tried, and failed, to keep him in last year, when it emerged early that he was happy to throw punches, and even to start fistfights, sending, for instance, the first negative mail to hit in Iowa last fall.

Obama never paid much of a price for his willingness to go negative. He also, to be fair, never promised that he wouldn't attack, and indeed often promised to be tougher than past Democrats, and bragged of his Chicago training. He disavowed nasty character attacks, but then everybody disavows nasty character attacks.

What's left of course, is to speculate on what form of political change Obama promises: It's not some sort of disarmament; it's not any large deviation from traditional Democratic policy; it's more a vaguer — and harder to control, and deliver — promise to lead the country past the deep cultural divisions around race, religion and even Vietnam that have dominated national politics for decades.

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superbrowns read my blog view my photos
Jun 15, 2008 | 1:04 PM

I know it's just a phrase, But bring a gun to a knife fight isn't that typical....
I would hope that change would have been in the debates, like going to town hall meetings along with McCain, No slaming each other just concentrate on policy's and issues, this is what they need to focus on, none or the bull [...] of "OLD POLITICS".
dprin339 read my blog view my photos
Jun 15, 2008 | 3:40 PM

ah superduper, we have come half circle now, with Obama being unable to complete & deliver.

like most of us didn't see THIS coming! LMAO
dprin339 read my blog view my photos
Jun 16, 2008 | 8:49 AM

Super, his whole campaign is based on lies & broken promises.
Barack Obama in 2003, talking to the AFL/CIO:

“I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal healthcare coverage. That’s what I’d like to see.”

In January, 2008, Obama claimed in a nationally televised debate:

"I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single-payer."



On July 28th, 2004 the day after his speech at the Democratic convention catapulted him into the national spotlight, Barack Obama told a group of reporters in Boston that the United States had an "absolute obligation" to remain in Iraq long enough to make it a success.

"The failure of the Iraqi state would be a disaster," he said at a lunch sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, according to an audiotape of the session. "It would dishonor the 900-plus men and women who have already died. . . . It would be a betrayal of the promise that we made to the Iraqi people, and it would be hugely destabilizing from a national security perspective."

And this is just a small sampling of the lies & pandering. He will avoid at all costs any debates with McCain.....especially the ones he can't control. Also, STILL waiting for him to accept the invitation from O'Reilly. Hilary & McCain both found the time to do so, but Obama can't? Please..........he's avoiding because he won't get the rock star treatment.
tem123 read my blog
Jun 16, 2008 | 1:41 PM

It's amazing how Senator Obama has gone negative in order to get the Presidency. All I know that if Senator McCain doesn't stick to the issues...then the Democrats will get what they want.
Happyg read my blog
Jun 16, 2008 | 3:45 PM

Obama thinks McCain is too much a gentleman to do battle in the trenches. He may be right,but this is what has kept McCain going for the last ten years. We can only hope that some of his policies aren't etched in stone. Wouldn't it be nice if Romney or Hunter were the VP and put in charge of cleansing America of all illegals?
TRUTHGUYSinCLE read my blog view my photos
Jun 16, 2008 | 6:09 PM

Obama is going to get desperate really soon when we learn more about him. Bad enough no experience, no accomplishments and creepy friends... now when McCain destoys him in debates in the fall, Obama will allow his Clinton-Gore-Marxist pals to play dirty.

Obama better speed up his talking on the cuff or he will put people to sleep in the debates. He.... talks...... like this..... or that. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh slap him in the head to get it rolling.
caseyjones38 read my blog view my photos
Jun 17, 2008 | 1:09 AM

"Obama better speed up his talking on the cuff or he will put people to sleep in the debates. He.... talks...... like this..... or that. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh slap him in the head to get it rolling." - Truthsguy

Wierd statement coming from someone who praises George Bush. His writers write him speeches that he turns into boredom with his` presentation. He can`t even pronounce "nuclear".
Happyg read my blog
Jun 17, 2008 | 7:32 AM

George Bush didn't base his campaigns on his "silver tongue", but that's all Obama has. He was seen awhile back looking in a mirror shortly before an appearance uttering the words, "tongue, don't fail me now". He's a one trick pony.


caseyjones38
Wierd statement coming from someone who praises George Bush. His writers write him speeches that he turns into boredom with his` presentation. He can`t even pronounce "nuclear".
caseyjones38 read my blog view my photos
Jun 17, 2008 | 9:34 AM

"George Bush didn't base his campaigns on his "silver tongue" - Happyg

No, he based it on Karl Rove`s "silver tongue" and his` own "forked tongue".
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