Implosion of McCain Campaign reflects HRC Campaign vs. Obama

vaberella

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Sat Sep-13-08 06:28 PM
Original message

Implosion of McCain Campaign reflects HRC Campaign vs. Obama

I'd first like to say this is not an HRC Campaign bash.

There have been several posts on this board that have been niggling me to post the similarities between the HRC Campaign and the McCain Campaign versus the Obama Campaign.

The most recent one here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7054544

But this is also followed not only by articles posted by comments posted by DUers about what their hearing from family, friends, or acquaintances who are Repub to the core and now want to know more about Obama or plan to vote Obama in the future. Or even go as far as not to vote but wouldn't mind voting for Obama.

What has come to my attention when I see the downfall and public reprimand of the Repub campaign not only by MSM, but even Republican media, or Republicans themselves be them citizenry or politicians this is can also be seen in what happened in how the HRC campaign was run and the comments she was getting from other Dems and Repubs and the citizenry or media.

The most striking was the usage of sexism. When HRC was seeing a progressive downfall in her numbers, and the countless misleading/lieing messages she sent out to the media and the people she throws out sexism. This is not to say that sexism wasn't involved. I'll be the first to say that MSM was excessively sexist to her, however this was from the moment the woman decided to run she was getting smacked in the face with it. Which was the same for racism and a sort of "reverse" sexism for Obama during his campaign; also by the media and a lot of the citizenry. However, he never used the race card in his campaign nor complained of it. Yet, HRC used it towards the final run of her campaign.

This is reflected once again with the addition of Gov. Palin on the Repub Ticket by the McCain campaign. It's almost similar, and also doesn't seem to be working for McCain in any way. Palin has opened the door to take the hit like any other politicians as she was supposed too from the beginning. I'm thankful for that. Yet, just the same this is the case.

More minor issues is the dirty, lieing, and misleading adverts that the McCain campaign is fully funding which you do not see from Obama who has actually taken that one step to say family is not involved and he won't play that game of throwing out dirt or misinterpretting McCain's words. He will take McCain on his full statements and use that, as well as McCain's mistaken views on politics. HRC's Campaign was doing something very similar. We have Obama dressed in Muslim attire which was of course to increase the fear mongering and promote on the Obama is a Muslim thing which was countlessly debunked if the church scandal didn't fix that alone. Plus it showed a sort of racism towards Muslims themselves and how that can be used as a weapon by politicans and the media to build resentments between American people. On a side I would love to sue the media for that.

Then we have the issues of religious faith and HRC's choice of wording, ditto for the election. While the McCain hasn't said much on that, they have blatantly lied in their adverts, misquoted Obama, and thrown Obama's words at him so they can have useless ammunition...I'm sure "pigs and lips" rings a bell.

While there are people who long for Obama to take the low rode and attack the McCain camp with all his ammunition, and he has plenty of it, what people aren't realizing is that Obama with the help of Axelrod and Burton is basically aiding in the implosion, self-destruction of the McCain campaign. Because the exact methodology that was used so effectively on HRC is being used on McCain and it's working.

Let's not mistake that McCain is also helping that along himself with wrong moves, paticularly pissing off the media and having the most inept Veep on his ticket.