McCain's New Attack Line: Obama Is Not A Flip-Flopper

[babylonsister]

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McCain's New Attack Line: Obama Is Not A Flip-Flopper
By Greg Sargent - August 6, 2008, 9:47AM


The McCain campaign is so confident that support for offshore drilling is a winning domestic issue that for the second day running the McCain team is attacking Obama for being consistent on the issue.

Today the McCain camp blasted out this video of Obama surrogate Evan Bayh arguing that Obama did not flip-flop when he expressed cautious support the other day for some kind of compromise on drilling -- a vid that's of course meant as an attack...

Bayh says that Obama doesn't believe drilling is "really the short-term or long-term answer to the problem."

A recent poll by the Dem firm Democracy Corps found that McCain's message on oil and energy is favored over Obama's, and yesterday the Repubs sent out a release attacking Obama for consistency on the issue.

It's not every day that a campaign goes out of its way to attack the opponent for being consistent, and this line of attack is another sign of how topsy-turvy the politics of offshore drilling really are.

[jenmito]

1. Just like they had an attack ad ready in case Obama DID visit the troops in Germany (saying he

used the troops for political reasons), they have attacks ready for everything he or his campaign says, whether it makes sense or not. When he DOESN'T change his position, they claim he's like Bush-stubborn to change regardless of the facts. They got nothin' (but they think they got it ALL covered).

[jefferson_dem]

2. I've noted a hardcore dissonance in their attacks of Obama.

They have accused him of flip-flopping on drilling while also saying he still opposes drilling. Um...

[babylonsister]

3. Seems like a campaign in disarray to me, especially compared to

Obama's. Too bad the m$m ignores this aspect.

[Basement Beat]

4. McCain's camp is pathetic. n/t