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Originally Posted by mudwhistle
What are you supposed to do when somebody jumps on a issue and gives everyone a false impression, not respond? Obama is playing GOTCHA, and making himself look stupid in the process.
My guess is Obama is going to be talking about this for quite some time and now it is shown that he got it wrong.
When they claimed that McCain owns only 7 properties I said, "So What!!!"
But then it was discovered that he has at least 8 it just shows that the Obama camp got it wrong and that they are getting desperate.
And now he's opened the bag and let out an issue that the McCain camp can use that makes Obama look like a crook and and idiot.
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Only partisan people who have nothing better to do with their time follow this shit. Both you and I know it.
This whole campaign is probably going to remain very close right until the end, because America is about evenly split. Everyone knows that.
It should be common knowledge by now that the conventions and the first debates in the fall help to crystalize the average voter's perception of the candidates, and not the tit-for-tat bullshit that goes on over the summer with stories such as these.
The people who will decide this election are that breed of people who vote all the time but are apt to voting for the candidate who they feel projects confidence while appearing most like them. That idea comes first from the conventions, and then in the first debate. And it's all about perception. If Obama wins, it will be because those people feel that he embodies the opposite of all the crap they can't stand about the people in the White House over the last 8 years and that the opponent represents the status quo. If McCain wins, it will be because those people feel that like Bush, despite the things they disagree with, that the guy is perceived as being stronger on national security and that "whether we agree with him or not, we know where he stands".
So basically, like Kennedy, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and then Bush, all Obama has to do, as the new guy on the scene, is make the undecideds comfortable and project a basic level of competence and understanding and humility for the job of being President, while McCain has to convince the undecideds in the convention and the first debate that he's got tons of energy and seems to be younger than his years. On that basis, this should ensure that the presidential campaign will get even stupider yet.