Monday - October 06, 2008

McCain resorts to attacks on Obama’s character as aids fear campain is over.  (what?)

This doesn’t look too good for our side folks. 

Your thoughts?

John McCain attacks Barack Obama’s character in bid to rescue campaign
John McCain will try to revive his flagging presidential prospects by launching an all-out character assassination on Barack Obama, branding his Democratic rival an untrustworthy political extremist who is “too risky for Americans”.

By Tim Shipman in Washington
Last Updated: 2:10PM BST 04 Oct 2008

The move comes amid growing signs that Mr McCain’s closest aides do not believe he can win the race for the White House in a “fair fight”.

The Sunday Telegraph knows of at least three occasions in the last month where members of his inner circle have voiced fears that he is doomed to defeat.

Voters have flocked to Mr Obama during the current economic crisis, and Mr McCain has lost the lead in several key swing states he must win if he is to have any chance of victory in November.

A former McCain strategist familiar with the senator’s tactical discussions told The Sunday Telegraph that he would pursue the “nuclear option” targeting Mr Obama personally in the final month leading up to November’s vote.

Republicans have leapt on a New York Times story which accused Mr Obama of having played down his relationship with the former terrorist turned education professor William Ayres, whose Weather Underground group bombed the Pentagon in the 1960s and with whom Mr Obama worked on community projects in the mid-1990s.

(this terrorist creep bombs the Pentagon and he’s not only allowed to continue his pointless breathing, he becomes a professor.  and he teaches what exactly? bomb making 101?  why oh why has this bastard not been shot dead by some patriot by now? jeez. rcob,)

Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee urged Mr McCain to make it a campaign issue. It ought to matter to voters,” he said. “If you hang out with somebody who has never apologised for bombing the Pentagon and the United States Capitol and is proud of something he should have been ashamed of, then it calls into question your judgment.

“I think a person who wants to be president should be appalled that anyone would ever lead this level of anarchy against the government of the United States.

In the second presidential debate on Tuesday, Mr McCain will seek to brand Mr Obama as an old fashioned tax-and-spend liberal.

At the same time, his campaign will launch coded attacks on Mr Obama’s patriotism. On Friday Mr McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin accused the Democratic candidate of disparaging American troops, a toxic charge in US politics. “Some of his comments about Afghanistan and what we are doing there supposedly, just air raiding villages and killing civilians, that’s reckless,” she said.

Greg Strimple, a senior adviser to Mr McCain confirmed the change of direction. “We’re looking for a very aggressive last 30 days,” he said. “We’re turning the page on this financial crisis and getting back to discussing Mr Obama’s liberal record and how he will be too risky for Americans.”

While the McCain campaign will not charge directly that Mr Obama’s views are un-American, that case is now being made by conservative pressure groups.

A group called the Judicial Confirmation Network has begun a $1m ad buy hinting that Mr Obama cannot be trusted to pick new justices for the Supreme Court. The basis for their charge is that he might select people like his incendiary pastor Jeremiah Wright, “who has blamed America for the 9/11 attacks”, or the aforementioned William Ayers. They also point out that he chose as one of his first financial backers Tony Rezko, a slumlord now convicted on 16 counts of corruption.

The former McCain strategist said: “We were doing well when this election was all about Obama. The last two weeks have been more about John and we need to shift the focus back.

“There are real questions for Obama to answer. Also, it’s the only way we win. It’s the nuclear option but votes are firming up. It’s now or never.” Mr Obama now enjoys a six point national poll lead and has moved ahead in states like Ohio , Virginia , Florida , Colorado , North Carolina and Missouri, all of which were won by George W. Bush in 2004.

Mr Strimple said: “We have just started advertising there heavily and I believe that every one of those states will snap back heavily in our favour.” But behind the scenes a mood of grim pessimism has gripped McCain staff. Even in the aftermath of Sarah Palin’s triumphant speech at the Republican convention, one of Mr McCain’s closest aides told The Sunday Telegraph that he expected Mrs Palin and her state of Alaska to disappear from public view within six weeks, a tacit admission that he expects to lose the election.

On Thursday, the campaign announced it was pulling out of Michigan , once a state Mr McCain hoped to steal from the Democrats, but where Mr Obama now enjoys a 13 point cushion.

Mrs Palin’s perky debate performance was the one bright spot of Mr McCain’s week but polls show her folksy charm did little to win over floating voters.

The strategist said: “Everyone’s saying she stopped the bleeding. She did, but you’ve got to do more than stop the bleeding when you’re leg’s already fallen off.”

McCain biographer Matt Welch told The Sunday Telegraph that McCain owes his current plight to his lifelong habit of fighting elections on his temperamental character rather than policy.

“In the last two weeks his responses to the financial crisis have been classic McCain,” he said. “He has no idea what he is talking about.

He has changed his mind on a daily basis.”

“When he said he was going to stop campaigning and solve the crisis in Washington, that was a moment when Americans said: ‘I don’t believe this guy any more.’

“What we see from McCain is anger and incoherence and publicity stunts and it’s not working.”

But he counselled against writing Mr McCain’s political obituary just yet. “Never count him out. If he’s five points down a week before the election, psychologically, that’s where he wants to be. He wants to feel like he’s fighting as the underdog. He will come up with something surprising.”

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