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A great message that the Republicans may want to remember. Are they happy with the trip the goaded Obama into? MSNBC is doing a piece on it right now. Showing the Obama backdrop in Israel and McCain in a supermarket standing in front of cheese. Not a good week for McCain but they demanded that he go. How it plays with the American people is to be determined but it certainly has elevated Obama with world leaders and given him relationships to work with as events move forward.
A great message that the Republicans may want to remember. Are they happy with the trip the goaded Obama into? MSNBC is doing a piece on it right now. Showing the Obama backdrop in Israel and McCain in a supermarket standing in front of cheese. Not a good week for McCain but they demanded that he go. How it plays with the American people is to be determined but it certainly has elevated Obama with world leaders and given him relationships to work with as events move forward.
OMG, what great symbolism....McCain and his sleazy cheesy campaign! Besides, a dirty rat like JM loves to eat cheeeeeze!
Yep, they ragged on Obama as being "weak" on foreign policy matters. Hah! Joke is on JM and the GOP. Obama is turning in one hell of a great trip, a true tour de force, and has the world eating out of his hand.
Excellent point. I remember McCain trying to bully Obama into coming along and letting the big boys show him around the place.
This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy:
May 30, 2008 - John McCain may have discovered the key to beating Barack Obama this November. And that key is two magic words: “join me.”
The Arizona senator and presumptive Republican presidential nominee drew blood by using them this week.
McCain invited Illinois Sen. Obama, his presumptive Democratic rival, to “join me” in visiting American troops and commanders in Iraq. As a gambit in America’s political chess, grandmaster McCain’s move was so brilliant that it left Obama nearly speechless and floundering.
A great message that the Republicans may want to remember. Are they happy with the trip the goaded Obama into? MSNBC is doing a piece on it right now. Showing the Obama backdrop in Israel and McCain in a supermarket standing in front of cheese. Not a good week for McCain but they demanded that he go. How it plays with the American people is to be determined but it certainly has elevated Obama with world leaders and given him relationships to work with as events move forward.
I agree - the Republican push (including that here on this board) to get Obama overseas is almost certain to play out in favor of Obama now that he's taken them up on their challenge - and thus against McCain.
It's looking like yet another mis-step on the part of the Republicans.
On the contrary, his positions on Israel, Iraq, the surge have shown it takes more than nice staging and photo-op to acquire CIC credentials. The American people aren't fools - they can certainly see the stagecraft and fakeness the Obama campaign is try to perpetrate. His presumptiousness knows no bounds, and that doesn't sit well with the electorate.
According to recent polls (see new thread) he is getting no "bump" out of this.
I think you guys are off. It looks to me like it's the same thing that's been going on: Dems think whatever he does is wonderful. Reps thinks it's weak.
I don't think it's going to have an impact on polls... and it might of been a couple weeks too late. It sounds like victory over the insurgency has been accomplished, so the Iraq question is much less serious. Yeah, I guess that's how I see it. He moved to slow.
However, McCain and cheese isn't the best backdrop. I'd agree McCain doesn't appear to have used this last week well.
However, McCain and cheese isn't the best backdrop. I'd agree McCain doesn't appear to have used this last week well.
He needs to scoot over to Rove's office and demand new handlers immediately! This is really embarrassing, the pick-a-song candy website, the golf cart, the cheese aisle.
On the contrary, his positions on Israel, Iraq, the surge have shown it takes more than nice staging and photo-op to acquire CIC credentials. The American people aren't fools - they can certainly see the stagecraft and fakeness the Obama campaign is try to perpetrate. His presumptiousness knows no bounds, and that doesn't sit well with the electorate.
According to recent polls (see new thread) he is getting no "bump" out of this.
Come on read the poll results and it doesn't really include this trip and talks about the last month as also points out that off shore drilling was the key issue not Iraq. You posted the poll and you know that from having digested it in its entirety.
barack obama is popular around the globe like britney spears was big around the globe. both pathetic and unoriginal, but force fed to the masses by media spoons. *yawn* wake me up when it's over, or the media has something new and interesting to report.
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