Obama hits Davis on 'issues'

[Mark E. Smith]

Source: POLITICO

Wed Sep 3 2:22 PM ET

Carrie Budoff Brown reports:

Barack Obama hit John McCain on Wednesday over a comment from his campaign manager that the presidential race will be decided more on personalities than on issues.

"Which probably explains why last night when they were speaking, all these speakers (at the Republican National Convention) came up, you didn't hear a single word about the economy," Obama said at an economic forum in New Philadelphia, Ohio. "Not once did people mention the hardships that people are going through."

"I guess I don't blame them," Obama added, "because if you don't have any issues to run on, you want it to be all about personality. If you have got George Bush's track record and John McCain voting 90 percent of the time in agreement with George Bush, then you probably don't want to talk about issues either."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080903/pl_politico/20552

[psychmommy]

1. K & R in know that's right obama.

obama/biden will win on the personality issue as well.

[HughBeaumont]

2. 9 recs on one response.

This is why Obama has the power.

"The presidential race will be decided more on personalities than on issues".

Ooooooookay .. . given that McClown and Impalin' Failin come up woefully short when put next to Obama and Biden on both counts, can we say "Dumbassiest Statement Of the Convention"?

[AwakeAtLast]

3. Since when have the GOP wanted to be personal?

Oh yeah. *This* year. x(


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[Third Doctor]

4. Right On!

This is what the amercan voters (the sane ones) need to hear. Not a bunch of clouds in the sky rhetoric.

[AwakeAtLast]

5. Welcome to DU!

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Enjoy this great site. This is a great place!

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