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Originally Posted by dabateman
It is easier to defend someone who's being attacked on the issues, you just bring up mindless attacks about associates or connections or anything shady that just doesn't seem right... Instead of winning on the issues.
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Cue the 'Log in the Punchbowl' metaphor:
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Anyone going on and on about Barack Obama and admonishing us to play fair and focus only on his policies remind me of someone who will rave about the food at a dinner party but fail to say a thing about the big turd in the punchbowl.
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Allow me to tell you about the finest liqueurs and natural fruit flavorings used to make this delicious punch. Uh, just overlook the turd floating in there.
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If you really want what is best for your own and your family's well-being how can you even consider drinking this punch or serving it to your loved ones?
If you really care about America how can you recommend someone whose past associations, and unanswered questions about same, give us reason to suspect any and all of his future actions and policies in office?
If I was a mafia chief or some other kind of influential bad guy and I was able to corrupt your integrity before you reached a position of great influence it would be in my best interests and his best interests to keep that relationship a secret.
Then, after you achieved that elected office, I would OWN you.
If you did not do what I wanted I could expose you as a corrupt official. And even if I only asked you for one favor it would be an offer you could not refuse.
We know that there is SOME kind of relationship between Obama and the Iraqi Billionaire, but Obama won't tell us what it is.
If we find out that Obama was playing patty-cake with unrepentant domestic terrorist and Communist Bill Ayers, what would that say about Obama's integrity? About his political ideology? And how might these clues manifest themselves in an Obama administration?
If we know that Rezko has been convicted and sent to prison, what exactly was the story behind his dealings with Obama? We know what Obama has told us but Obama is increasingly being caught in lies or he issues a statement to clarify and erase what he'd said before to prevent committing
to a particular course.
His Saddleback Church statement about ethics reform. His position in regards to the BAIPA legislation.
Here's what Rudy Giuliani said yesterday at the RNC:
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Obama — Obama promised to take public financing for his campaign, until he broke his promise.
Obama — Obama was against wiretapping before he voted for it.
When speaking to a pro-Israeli group, Obama favored an undivided Jerusalem, like I favor and like John McCain favored. Well, he favored an undivided Jerusalem — don’t get too excited — for one day, until he changed his mind.
Well, I’ll tell you, if I were Joe Biden, I’d want to get that V.P. thing in writing.
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Transcript: Rudy Giuliani Speech Republican National Convention 2008 : Clips & Comment
To you this may be academic or intellectual. I live here. I care and am committed to the best course for our country. Imploring me to try to 'win on the issues' while ignoring a seriously troubling aspect of his past and his character and judgment is to be naive, at least. We may debate issues and ideas here on these pages but in terms of our next president we are dealing with real life and we must look at the entirety of Obama's candidacy. Character, judgment, associations, past accomplishments as well as his proposed future policies.