Obama on the march, as McCain embraces hardline tactics

[maddezmom]

Obama on the march. McCain embraces hardline tactics with focus on his rival's 'character' as opinion polls show shift to Democrats. By Leonard Doyle
Sunday, 5 October 2008


With less than a month to go in the marathon race for the US presidency, and Barack Obama forging ahead in most of the key states where the election will be decided, John McCain and his Republican allies are preparing a new round of deeply personal attacks on the Democratic front-runner in an attempt to seize back the initiative.


Struggling as the effects of the credit crunch and the deep unpopularity of President George Bush turn voters against him, Mr McCain plans to focus on "who Obama is", including questioning his character, "liberal" record and "too risky" proposals. His fitness to be America's commander in chief will be raised as the Arizona Senator seeks to shift on to ground more favourable to himself.

The new, more aggressive tone is likely to be on display as early as Tuesday night's second presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee. Senior Republicans have long believed that Mr McCain's best chance of victory against his charismatic and organised opponent is to turn the election into a referendum on his character and readiness to occupy the Oval Office. "Turning negative" is seen as the last hope of turning the election around.

Mr McCain dropped a broad hint of the coming turbulence at one of his "town hall meetings" in Colorado last week. Asked "When are you going to take the gloves off?", he cracked a broad grin and replied, "How about Tuesday night?" A senior Republican helpfully informed reporters that "we're going to get a little tougher". He was referring to a sharply negative television advertising campaign, which the Republicans hope will put a stop to the Obama campaign's gallop, just as Hillary Clinton did ahead of the Pennsylvania primary contest.

more:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/obama-on-the-march-951826.html

[Demeter]

1. Maybe McCain Will Get Lucky and Knock Himself Out

and spare us all the misery.

[maddezmom]

3. LOL

:thumbsup:

[taddles]

2. So, Tuesday evening...

we will see McCains shred the last vestiges of his honor and flush it down the toilet that is his campaign. McCain is slime, he stands for slime, he espouses slime and the only tactic he has left is slime, he is an insult to anything that was good about the McCain of 2000, he is nothing better than scum now.

[CitizenPatriot]

4. they are making announcement that they are going negative?

isn't this old news?

P.S. pssst...mcCain, your poll numbers went down and part of the reason was people perceive you and your running mate as snarky, aggressive, sarcastic and ...well...negative. Ya' may want to do a re-think here.

[amb123]

5. Here comes the Straight SMEAR Express!

Coming to a media outlet near you.