McCain's New Attack Line: Obama Is Not A Flip-Flopper
The McCain campaign is so confident that support for offshore drilling is a winning domestic issue that for the second day running the McCain team is attacking Obama for being consistent on the issue.
Today the McCain camp blasted out this video of Obama surrogate Evan Bayh arguing that Obama did not flip-flop when he expressed cautious support the other day for some kind of compromise on drilling -- a vid that's of course meant as an attack...
Bayh says that Obama doesn't believe drilling is "really the short-term or long-term answer to the problem."
A recent poll by the Dem firm Democracy Corps found that McCain's message on oil and energy is favored over Obama's, and yesterday the Repubs sent out a release attacking Obama for consistency on the issue.
It's not every day that a campaign goes out of its way to attack the opponent for being consistent, and this line of attack is another sign of how topsy-turvy the politics of offshore drilling really are.
They blasted out that video? Really? I've watched it a few times and fail to find anything remotely controversial or new in it.
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August 6, 2008 9:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
I just think the mccain campaign should go back to campaigning school, they remind me of the hillary campaign before they got rid of mark penn, very disorganized, no clear message, and just cant manage much.
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August 6, 2008 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
Weak.
August 6, 2008 9:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ha! They are just sour because someone put an Obama sticker on the Straight Talk Express.
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August 6, 2008 9:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
DNC launches "Exxon-McCain 08"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12337.html
August 6, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
DNC launches "Exxon-McCain 08"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12337.html
August 6, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
DNC launches "Exxon-McCain 08"
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12337.html
August 6, 2008 9:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
What the fuck!?
Sorry.
August 6, 2008 10:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
Man, you are hyper...
August 6, 2008 10:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
Of this I have no doubt. McCain won't go broke appealing to the American public's belief that we can simply drill our way out high gas prices and energy dependence. Obama has a real up-hill climb ahead of him to disprove this preconceived idea by trying to educate people that drilling is a fairy dust solution.
August 6, 2008 10:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
what sucks the most about this is that while McCain et. al. may be correct in their determination that drilling is a popular issue or at least polling that way, that does not mean it is the correct solution to the problem. Obama is very accurate in pointing out that more drilling is not a viable long or short term solution. but how do you convince folks who are actually proud of their ignorance (as Obama apparently just realized) and do not give a rats ass if they are wrong?
August 6, 2008 10:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is correct:
Obama is not a flip-floppper . . . He is a middle-of-the-road, mediocre Democrat. I know which I consider worse, but I'm a liberal educated guy.
Obama could be almost anything except Cheney or McCain and be a crap-load better than Senator Wackadoo.
August 6, 2008 10:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think you have a clear understanding of what "middle-of-the-road" Democrats are like. Perhaps you need to take another look at the makeup of Congress.
Is he as far to the left (of acting like it in the general election because he is smart) as many of us would like? Probably not. But would our ideal super progressive candidate get elected? Probably not either. I think you are taking for granted how great of a candidate we really have in Obama. He is a hell of a lot better than any candidate we've had in decades, so I suggest you quit with the glass half empty crap and give him a chance. I really don't think we are going to be disappointed after he is in the White House.
August 6, 2008 11:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't find Obama mediocre in the least. What is mediocre about him?
August 6, 2008 11:02 AM | Reply | Permalink
The fact remains that an overwhelming number of Americans have fallen for the drill here, drill now marketing strategy. I don't know what the Dems can do about it and I can't believe Republicans actually found a way to blame the energy crisis on Democrats.
I don't care how ignorant Americans are when it comes to the issue. Being high minded won't get Obama into the WH and a reinforced Dem congress. Votes will. And the Dems either need to combat drilling with a new and thoroughly planned idea of their own or they have to get on the bandwagon and embrace it.
Maybe the Gang of Ten plan is the answer with limited drilling now that will kill the movement. But Nancy Pelosi's dumb ass idea to just keep blocking the vote is a disaster in waiting. She's shown terrible leadership.
August 6, 2008 11:11 AM | Reply | Permalink
There's only one campaign on the attack right now, and it sure isn't the Obama campaign. All we see are "responses to McCain" and not a whole lot of forward momentum. Let's stop the back-pedaling and go on offense!
August 6, 2008 11:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
You gotta love how Americans love to simple, braindead answer. It isn't about who is right and who is wrong in American politics, even in 2008 it is about who can come up with the most simple, idiotic, telling people exactly what they want to hear nonsense, and that is the winning position.
For a country that is always held up as the finest specimen in the world, with such a rugged and undefeatable disposition, it is full of an awful lot of ignorant babies looking for the easy way out. No effort, no thinking, no challenge, that's apparently the American way for voters now. You would have thought they would have learned something after 8 years of Bush...and even though the vast majority of the population doesn't like him now, they can't seem to connect even the simplest dots, to see that McCain is doing nothing different.
I'm very disappointed with how gullible people are..
August 6, 2008 11:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Libya is the only oil producing nation I'm aware of that you could actually take the oil straight from the well-head and pump it into your tank, just as long as it's a diesel engine. Heard that from some rough-necks in Saudia years ago.
Otherwise, you have to process it the old fashion way which takes time once you get it out of the ground shipped to a refinery.
August 6, 2008 2:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
We posted ringtone-ready audio from Bayh's interview over at Entertonement.
August 7, 2008 10:37 AM | Reply | Permalink