Barack Obama claims to be the candidate of change and hope. Well, how can he claim to such a candidate when he sees political opportunity, not in the hopes of America’s future, but the calamities of the America’s present?
Republicans denounced an e-mail message that Senator Barack Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, sent to supporters on Friday that used the fiscal crisis as fodder for a fund-raising appeal and accused Senator John McCain of lying.
“With Wall Street in crisis and families struggling, Barack offered a solid plan to strengthen the middle class, including tax cuts for nearly all Americans,” Mr. Plouffe wrote in the message. “John McCain continued the same old politics — lying about Barack’s plan and offering more of the same George Bush policies, including more tax breaks for Big Oil and no solutions for working families.”
Alex Conant, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, called the fund-raising plea “the definition of political opportunism.”
“It raises serious questions about Obama’s judgment when millions of Americans are losing their jobs and savings, and his response is to ask for a campaign contribution,” Mr. Conant said in a statement. He added that “the crisis on Wall Street should be a bipartisan call for government reform, not a selfish call for political contributions.”
It’s become painfully obvious to me that the Obama campaign is panicking. After John McCain’s post-convention bounce, we saw a drastic shift in tone from Barack Obama. He’s gone from saying nothing substantive about himself, to saying absolutely nothing truthful about John McCain. His entire persona has changed. He’s gone from largely positive in his rhetoric to almost entire negative. He accuses McCain of taking his words out of context, even though he was guilty of doing the same thing numerous times before, and has continued to do so. When liberal networks like ABC and CNN are evening calling an Obama ad false for taking Rush Limbaugh’s words out of context, any objective person can conclude that Obama is running one of the slimiest campaigns we’ve ever seen.
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