Obama...Attack or stay positive ???

[Laura PourMeADrink]

The eternal political question

I, for one, would have liked him to be 100% positive, and even "announce" that
over and over. Maybe I am wrong

Obviously, they chose to go mano a mano.

Hope it works.

[I owe a]

1. attack

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[Selatius]

2. You have to hit back hard. This was one lesson John Kerry's example left us.

He didn't have the funds to hit back hard against the lying swiftboaters because public financing had left him in a bind financially speaking. This may have cost him some swing voters in the middle and thus the election.

[MarianJack]

3. I believe that he should do asthe Clinton campaign did in 92 & 96.

Don't allow any negative attack go unanswered for more than 12 hours.

With the expansion of the web and the 24 hour news cycle, maybe even less.

PEACE!

[Dawson Leery]

4. The right wing has given as a clear warning that they WILL engage in overt racial assaults on Obama.

While they did pull the current ad. There will be more. The closer to November, the more likely these attacks will occur.
There must a swift and hard response to these assaults.

[deacon]

5. Keep the petal to the metal. Eye for an eye campaign. n/t

[titaniumsalute]

19. or the pedal...

[liberal N proud]

6. The only way to beat these Machiavellian-Rovian liars is to play their type of game.

Attack, but the truth is on Obama's side.

Truth will set you free, but you have to stand up to the attacks against you and go head to head with the enemy.

[JNelson6563]

7. I don't see why it has to be an either/or sort of thing.

I vote for "both". Ads citing accomplishments and future plans along with ads hitting Rmoney.

Julie

[Uncle Joe]

13. I agree they should do both without equivocation.

Positively attack the Republicans and rMoney while communicating a positive direction or vision as to where they want to take the nation.

If they; can't do both with great sincere, enthusiasm it's only because they're too similar.

Joe

[riverwalker]

8. whup ass attack

but thats just me

[Life Long Dem]

9. Where is he not 100% positive

Are you listening to Romney?

[uponit7771]

10. They should just stay factual, the Bain vid was very factual and non emotional

[Trillo]

27. It was factual, but

The testimony of those workers, their bitterness, their feelings about Rmoney and his apparent motivations, were, I felt, rather deeply emotional. It really connected a cold calculating nature, counting Rmoney.

[tabbycat31]

11. Attack

He has to--- the right has spent the last 4 years going after him.

AS much as people WANT to stay positive, not fighting back makes you look like a wimp.

On the campaign I worked for last year (state senate), our opponent started sending negative mailers in July and defined the campaign. We had no choice but to attack (and we did--- we even sent a mailer portraying our opponent as a vampire).

[mvd]

12. Agree

Have to attack because of the super PACs.

[rocktivity]

14. COUNTERattack.

Don't hit him unless he hits you -- and he HAS to hit you.

Hit him back harder, of course. Though since you have reality and the public interest packed in your gloves like a couple of horseshoes, that shouldn't BE hard.


rocktivity

[bluestate10]

21. But, like Clinton in 92, counter fast.

The longer a lie is allowed to go unanswered, the more damaging that lie can be.

[spanone]

15. you can not be positive when the other side will lie, cheat and steal the election

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. guess that is proven by what Noot went through, bless his heart. He started

out by saying he would remain positive, and Romney buried him


Maybe Obama can go all positive at the end when people in the swing states (I never see a single ad)
are sick and tired of negativism

Obama, however, has always had a cool way, in my opinion, of trashing the opposition in a classy,
non-personal way.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

17. Attack and keep defining Romney

[kentuck]

18. It's a simple question...

If the other side will call off Karl Rove and the Mad Dogs, we will agree to run a civil campaign... But so long as they continue their rampage over everything, we will continue to fight back. It is up to them.

[bluestate10]

20. Be ready to attack on a moment's notice.

But stay positive. President Obama has a solid list of accomplishments. President Obama should explain those accomplishments to the voting public. But the very moment Romney attempts to pull what he pulled on Gingrich and Santorum, President Obama should, figuratively, take Romney's head off.

[hifiguy]

22. Hammer the Mittbot

at least a significant part of the time, and every time he attacks. In the immortal words of Rowdy Roddy Piper, no one throws rocks at the guy with the machine gun.

[WillyT]

23. You Can Do BOTH... When You Tell/Expose The TRUTH...

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

-Harry S. Truman

[NashvilleLefty]

24. Citizen's United decision changed everything.

Obama's campaign should stay positive. Let the unlimited and secretly-funded SuperPacs do all the nasty-but-necessary work.

Then let's see what we can do to get rid of the Citizen's United verdict. Although, that may require a new SCOTUS so I'm not holding my breath. This is going to take a while. A LONG while.

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. I would hope lessons were learned from allowing the lies of the Swift boaters to go unchallenged.

100% only gains a person friends... not offices, sadly.

[Amster Dan]

26. NUKE!