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OPERATIONMINDCRIME Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-15-08 09:10 PM
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123. I Agree With That On The Surface, But I've Never Quite Let That One Bother Me Much.
On the surface it seems scary when comparing the two, but then I think about the ways McCain has walked lockstep, his 100 year iraq war claims, and a million other ways in which his experience hasn't made him look good at all, and I consider it to be something that would be quite easy for Hillary to overcome. That's also why when she used that dirty tactic on Obama, I wasn't nearly as concerned about it being used against him in the GE, because I think he could easily overcome that as well.

Personally, I think any of the things that could be used by her could be overcome without too much effort by throwing shit back at him. We have a TON of weapons in our arsenal to use on him regardless of which candidate runs. I guess the reason why I'm taking the wright thing so seriously, is because I know human nature. And come the GE, once videos, emails, ads, etc come out combining the flag pin incident, hand over heart incident, the incident over Michelle's comments, and all of the Wright comments combined with Obama's close relationship to him, and I think you've got yourself a perfect storm of propaganda that would fester its way into average voters minds and cause them to look at him as not the type they want in the Oval office, even though such a mindset would be monumentally unfair and undeserved. But that's the public for ya, ya know?

I just can't get that combination of incidents out of my head and how powerfully they can use them. For the ONLY time throughout all of this, I think he could be defeated by that in the GE. Up until that, I had firmly believed he'd steamroll over McCain.
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