Obama is the young guy in the campaign for the presidency this year. McCain is supposed to be the old man. If that is true, and a lot of it is true, why doesn’t Obama understand the significance of You-Tube ? This will be the first presidential campaign since You-Tube became the universal presence that it is. In the old days of 2004, opposition research was directed at finding out things the other candidate had written and said that could be used against him. Now, the video of such incidents will be far more powerful. Obama has been saying that it is unfair for John McCain to attack him on foreign policy. This, of course, is said minutes after Obama accuses McCain of conducting “The Bush foreign policy” for another four years.
I have news for Obama. McCain won’t have to say much. You-Tube will take care of that. His people are already backing away and trying to spin this. I don’t think it will work. You Tube is too easy to use to refute his denials.
Expect to see a lot of that video this fall. The Swiftboat veterans were a minor annoyance to Kerry compared to what this will do.
Tags: foreign policy, Iran, McCain, Obama, you tube
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I hope all this matters, Dr. K., but I am not optimistic. I mean, look at the “57 states” business (or other bizarre statements, like 10,000 people dying in a tornado). Obama gets a pass. Republicans misspeak, and the press is all over them.
Remember Dan Quayle and “potatoe”? Imagine if Dan Quayle had, even as a joke, said that the US had 57 states? If McCain had said it, the press would be full of speculation regarding senility.
Heck, look at how HRC was treated over her “sniper fire” exaggerations?
Fact is, the press is in the tank for Obama. They will forgive him almost anything. There is a script right now. Lord God help journalists or pundits who veer from those talking points.
Why, they are just “shills for the Right Wing” or similar insults. Unliking having a tingle run up your leg when a candidate speaks.
I’m worried about November.
It was You Tube that sank Hillary, remember. The biggest problem McCain has is lack of money. He needs enough to get those You Tube videos on local TV in swing states. The Democrats have given him Michigan and Florida. He is the luckiest guy I’ve seen in politics in a long time. Maybe Clinton getting Perot to run in 92 is another.
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