McCains Free Ride: Newsweek (Obama supporters, lets huddle)

[angie_love]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/114548/page/1

SNIP

"This week the New York Times made news with a front-page story on John McCain's relationship with a telecommunications lobbyist. The story hinted at a possible romantic entanglement and raised questions about the propriety of McCain's dealings with the lobbyist and her clients at a time when the Arizona lawmaker was chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. The story, which McCain's campaign has vigorously disputed, marked a rare incidence of bad press for a politician who has enjoyed a remarkably amicable relationship with the establishment media over the course of his 25-year career. Other than a flurry of critical stories surrounding his involvement in a savings-and-loan scandal in the late 1980s, McCain has enjoyed such positive coverage he sometimes jokingly refers to the press as his base."

SNIP

"There are tons. Like in 2000 he referred to Vietnamese as gooks. For a presidential candidate to use a racist term like that is usually incredibly damaging, but the press just ignored it. And when they finally did address it, after some Asian-American groups started to complain, they were very careful to put it into context and explain it away."

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Ok so how are we going to deal with this? We can't depend on the media to help us in the GE, as they've shown time and time again to stab the dems in the back. They did it to Hillary and will do it to Obama. They will always do it to the dems. The only person we have on our side is Keith. It is clear that McCain is going to have the media on his side and the only positive is that Obama is outraising McCain 2:1 or 3:1. I just hope thats enough. We dems really need to win this year and the only way I see winning is to go negative. We can't be above it all like Kerry did in 2004. We need to go negative and hit McCain over and over with ads.

Another thing...Obama refuses to get cozy with the media b/c he wants to avoid spin. While thats honorable, I hope he changes his position. The reason McCain gets a free pass is b/c he talks to reporters all the time. Obama needs to do this as well and I hope he starts doing it fast. What are your opinions as to how we're going to beat McCain? *If Obama is the nominee*

[TwilightGardener]

1. We tie him relentlessly to Bush--on the war, on economic policy, on health care, on entitlements, on

virtually everything except global warming. He even supported waterboarding last week after speaking against it for so long. He doesn't really have any good policies or programs lined up, doesn't have anything besides cut taxes, and veto earmarks and spending bills, and Iraq for 100 years. Shouldn't be too hard.