Dear Obama...

[thereject]

You are going to lose the election.

No, seriously. If you want to win you need to stop with the shit-slinging and easily disproven lies about your stance on issues. You are running on a platform of change, hope, and truth. You're showing that two legs of your tripod are made of papier-mâché. Nobody votes for a one-legged man.

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[fizrep]

Unless that man in One-legged Abe Lincoln.

[chaosvizier]

Hell with him. One-legged Chuck Norris could STILL roundhouse kick One-legged Abe Lincoln. While having sex. With Martha Washington.

[fizrep]

That's hot.

[fizrep]

I had a great Abe Lincoln comment here but it went poofs.

Anyway, I wish Obama wouldn't listen to the "We're bitter about 8 years of Republican smearing and want to do some of our own" camp and stuck with the "I'm above this shit and so is America" camp.

[fizrep]

Abe is back!

[thereject]

He never went anywhere

[thereject]

Exactly. He can probably carry the election if he sticks to his issues and smiles a lot. Getting confrontational and showing hypocrisy is get to put off the undecided voters.

[aidian]

Uhhh, I don't think obama has particularly been much other than democrat-party-style anti-gun. I don't particularly like that, but given the choice I'll take fighting _that_ in court over dealing with Cheeky McBomber, who literally contradicts himself from sentence to sentence and can't tell you what he stands for without consulting an advisor and who on one side badmouths the current administration while on the other promising to continue a stream of failed policies that are doing nothing but hurting america, and the world. You can't be seriously cheering for Baby Bush and VP Dentata.

Seen how your deregulated free-market capitalism is doing these days? yeeeeaah.

[thereject]

Thing is, McCain doesn't have to be squeaky clean. He's not the one running on the Jesus platform. Obama has sold his supporters a bright, fresh new tomorrow without the dishonesty of the entrenched lobbyist-owned politicians America has come to know. When that platform gets undermined, people are going to start going with the old standby: John "Business as Usual" McCain.

Last I checked, the government and Fed were balls-deep in the financing crises currently afflicting the nation. I'd call that anything but free-market.

[aidian]

Wait, so rather than go with the guy who at least says he wants to try to keep it clean, just pick the one that we -know- is a rat? That... makes less sense to me. "Business as usual" McCain, as you say, is "can't make up my mind today" and "I'm going to bomb everyone back into the stone age, aggression is the best policy" and "civil rights? who needs em, so long as business have free reign" - and then, there's "overturn roe v wade" and "oh our opponent is so inexperienced compared to my guy, oh don't look at me btw" Palin... You think these are any better than the other choice

[six2]

Sure we disagree on this, but I would point out that McCain is lying like crazy to try to get elected, and his attacks going unanswered from Obama only moved undecideds to McCain.

To Quote Time Magazine:

McCain's lies have ranged from the annoying to the sleazy, and the problem is in both degree and kind. His campaign has been a ceaseless assault on his opponent's character and policies, featuring a consistent-and witting-disdain for the truth. Even after 38 million Americans heard Obama say in his speech at the Democratic National Convention that he was open to offshore oil-drilling and building new nuclear-power plants, McCain flatly said in his acceptance speech that Obama opposed both. Normal political practice would be for McCain to say, "Obama says he's 'open to' offshore drilling, but he's always opposed it. How can we believe him?" This persistence in repeating demonstrably false charges is something new in presidential politics.

*I* don't like seeing shit-slinging from either side, but that's our broken political beauty

[thereject]

Of course McCaine's lying out his ass, but people don't expect as much from him. Obama is perhaps a victim of hype, hype which he himself has been generating. When he falls short of the unreasonable expectations the voters of the nation have of him he will suffer for it. Even the smallest flaws harm Obama much more than McCaine, and some of Obama's flaws are anything but small.

If Obama wants to win he has to stay honest and respond to false allegations in a direct manner. McCaine doesn't have that limitation.

[six2]

That makes sense, even as it is absurd that the expectations of McCain have fallen so low -- *I* friggin respected him and voted for him in the republican primary in 2000.

[laughing_piggy]

Hey! Where you been? I missed you!

[thereject]

I didn't really go anywhere, I've mostly been busy with work. by the time I get home in the evening posting on the Internet feels like too much effort.