Will Obama Get "Swift-boated"?
By Dan Proft Posted in 2008 — Comments (13) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
While Archimedes-in-a-pantsuit tries to rewrite the laws of mathematics, the rest of the nation has properly begun to weigh the Presidential contest between Sens. McCain and Obama.
Obama has, however, learned a valuable Clinton trick from this protracted primary--how to obliquely reference the "vast, right-wing conspiracy" to misdirect people's attention away from glaring, personal deficiencies.
During his victory speech in North Carolina on Tuesday night Obama said, "We know what's coming...the same names and labels they (Republicans) pin on everyone who doesn't agree with all of their ideas."
Actually, we have some new names and labels thanks to Mr. & Mrs. Obama's own words and ideas, as well as the Senator's cozy relationships with corrupt influence peddlers, domestic terrorists, and a hateful, bile-spewing spiritual advisor.
That right-wing conspiracy shtick--being "Swift-boated"--is going to work out about as well for Obama as it did for Clinton and for the same reason-because it is without merit.
"Swift-boated" has been added to our political lexicon by the Left to lament the alleged unfair attacks to which John Kerry was subjected in the 2004 Presidential race.
And yet, it was John Kerry who made his military service an issue. He sought to use his service to distinguish himself from President Bush and to characterize both Bush and Cheney as reckless chicken-hawks.
It was John Kerry who saluted the nation nearly four years ago and said, "I'm John Kerry and I'm reporting for duty." It was John Kerry who brought several of those with whom he had served in Vietnam on stage at the Democrat National Convention to show them off to the country.
On the contrary, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were effective with their anti-Kerry message because it was a substantive one. The facts were on their side. The fact was that Kerry's entire chain of command, every officer under whom Kerry served in Vietnam, questioned his fitness to be Commander-in-Chief. Many Kerry detractors were Democrats but they were also proud and decorated veterans who believed that Kerry had acted dishonorably and that his campaign was being run disingenuously. Theirs was a legitimate perspective for the country to hear.
Similarly, it is Barack Obama who has presented as his core argument that he possesses the superior judgment to be President. That demands a thorough examination of both his personal history and professional record.
The process demands and will extract the same from John McCain.
So as we begin the compare and contrast on the matter of the two men's judgment, at the behest of Obama, consider these two snapshots at a watershed moment in each one's life:
At the same respective points in their lives as grown men in their early 30s, Obama decided to sidle up to Chicago political machine bosses and their financiers and the chichi Hyde Park set of pseudo-intellectual socialists to advance his political career. That earned Obama an appointment to a State Senate seat in 1996.
At a similar age, John McCain made an important decision as well. He decided to forgo his early release from a North Vietnamese POW camp, an offer extended to him because of his father's position in the military. McCain would not walk unless the other POWs who had been captured before him were also released. That earned McCain an additional five years of torture in a Viet Cong prison camp and, for all he knew at the time, was a decision that would cost him his life.
What would you have done if presented with the same offer with which McCain was presented?
What do you think Barack Obama would have done as you have watched him over the last couple of months provide ever-evolving answers and, ultimately, denunciation of his 20-year pastor (only because Rev. Wright wasn't properly concerned about Obama's campaign)?
These snapshots of course do not tell the whole story of either man, but they do tell an important part of the story for each, about the values that have informed their lives.
Call it "Swift-boating" if you want but Obama's ethereal campaign will be done in by his own bad judgments measured against the very standard he has set to define the race for President.
I spent days down at the National Archives looking at John I was in Vietnam Kerry's military record. The facts were all there and I did as much as I could to help that group.
But how does one dispute smoke?
M Penny
By blowing it away. Money is the breath of politics....And I will be more than glad to donate some of mine to a 527 that will hammer Obama from summer till Election Day.
PS: I've already donated to McCain, and will do so again.
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
and beat on Michelle for every word she speaks.
We need to focus on the guy running for the WH- and he is indeed severely flawed and basically an empty suit.
That is the focus.
And with that, even if we do not gain in the Senate or House, we can hold the WH and at least moderate the lefty compulsion to damage the national interest.
We have learned that it won't be The RNC or McCain's campaign that provides this information to the voters.
It will have to be, and will be, some 527 (illegitimate offspring of BCRA) that will do the job. I'm ready to putch in my pittance toward that end, as I did with the SBVT.
A true Swift-Boating proceeds in five predictable stages:
1. The Democrat makes some claim that forms the center of his appeal and convinces his followers on the left that he can reach out to voters in the middle.
Kerry: I served with honor. Thus, you can trust me on national security. Bring it on. That dog won't hunt. Go read Doug Brinkley's book.
Obama: I am a post-racial candidate. I will lead us beyond the age of race-baiting preachers and grievance-mongers. I'm also a religious man who will end the Democrats' secular fixation. Go read The Audacity of Hope.
2. The Democrat's own words are accurately quoted against him, his own actions and associations are turned back on him.
Kerry: The video of his Senate testimony. The Winter Soldier hoaxes he peddled. The Christmas in Cambodia nonsense.
Obama: Rev. Wright, the main who coined "Audacity of Hope," turns out to be just another race-baiting preacher. Obama sneers at other people's faith and has to flee from his own church one step ahead of a bitter gun-toting mob.
3. The Democrat stops answering questions and hopes the media will drop the story.
Kerry: Six weeks where his only interview or press conference was with Jon Stewart.
Obama: Hey, I answered eight questions. Let me eat my waffle. No more debates.
4. The Democrat and his supporters whine and screech about the unfairness of the thing.
Kerry: They questioned my patriotism!
Obama: Racists! Distractions from the Real Issue, which is not my words or my judgment but my...uh....
5. Denial.
Kerry: I'm a strong closer.
Obama: Hey, that was the primaries. Did I mention that John McCain was old?
"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong." - Winston Churchill
Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated. -- IMAO
the RNC is today starting to run an internet ad attacking Obama on many of his positions. fairly effective. It could be death by a thousand cuts on Obama. and the more the right wing attacks, the more he will attack back- thus betraying his "I am no politician" bs..
"Small town folks get bitter after which they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment."
and find a bunch of Iraqis giving thanks to our troops and Bush for staying the course.
Those ads write themselves.
I think some outside group, not McCain's campaign, will prepare a TV advertisement to run out in "fly over country", using Saint Obama's very words from San Francisco and the words of Ronald Reagan in his farewell speech.
Something along the lines of:
Announcer:
In Fly Over country, you just don't get Obama.
and Obama does not get you
"You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
Announcer: America is not a bitter country Senator Obama.
President Ronald Reagan said it best in his farewell speech to the nation
Cue to Reagan speech
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it and see it still."
Announcer:
Remember, your vote counts in November, ether for a proud shinning city on a hill or because you're bitter.
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Barak Obama's quote ... "At the end of the day, it's about who can exercise the best judgement."
Fade to black and bring up Reverand Wright on the left 2/3 of the screen. "Obama gave thousands of dollars to a pastor who blames America for 9/11 and thinks the CIA invented AIDS."
Fade Wright and bring up the terrorist Ayres on the right 2/3 of the screen. "Obama has had a close relationship with William Ayres, a terrorist who attacked children and others in the 60s and has never apologized for it."
Fade Ayres and bring in Rezko, "Barak's chief political ally in Chicago ... etc, etc"