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Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel
I think McCain will take that trade-off. The people you can associate him with are typical associations that you could make to anyone who has been in Washington for a long time. The problem Obama will run into with his associations are that they aren't your typical "damn corrupt Washington" ties, they are non-mainstream radical figures which have the potential to scare some people away from Obama. You play it up as "Wait, maybe he isn't the kind of change we've been waiting for after all, I would never hang out with those nutjobs and I can't imagine anyone who would."
McCain also has the benefit of a degree of seperation. He works with people who work with people who might not be too popular. Obama is friends with and works directly with the nutjobs in his case.
Look at it this way, no matter how many unpopular things McCain advisers have done, none of them put together a group to bomb the Capitol building, got on stage and screamed about conspiracies and "God Damn America!" or helped pay for his house next door to theirs with embezzled funds from deals that McCain helped him get. If Obama legitamizes this campaign tactic by responding in kind he's making a mistake because his connections at least sound worse.
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again..it shows that McCain has poor judgement in picking his associations...especially if he insists on keeping them around.
ETA
Didn't McCain ealier this year shy away from attacking Obama and Wright?
Does anyone remember the North Crarolina Repus that McCain had them remove an ad smearing Obama and Wright saying: "I'm making it very clear, as I have a couple of times in the past, that there's no place for that kind of campaigning, and the American people don't want it."
I guess he has changed his mind and made a place at the table...I wonder if he will say anything to Sarah since she is now bringing it back up.
Not that she wants anyone investigating her pastor who says that God will punish those "slip slidin' Americans...."