Barack Obama's campaign manager sent out an email after the close of the Republican National Convention, complaining that Republicans didn't talk enough about the issues. Obama each carried the message into Pennsylvania on Thursday, telling supporters that Republicans must not have answers to the problems facing America because they didn't talk much about it at the convention.
Obama et. al. must have a short memory - they seem to have forgotten their own convention. They spent the first evening attempting to rehabilitate Michelle Obama's image into that of someone who always has and always will love her country, and make Barack look like an average citizen, not the elitist that he is. The second night was dedicated to wooing Hillary supporters, with Hillary's strong, but neutered call to support Obama (more of a call to support the generic Democrat than anything else). The third night featured Bill Clinton doing more of the same to "unify" the party followed by Joe Biden doing whatever he could to convince voters that McCain is "more of the same." Finally, on the final night, the night of Obama's coronation, Obama talked generally about some problems in the country, talked more about the Bush-McCain connection, talked about change, and tried to convince voters that he could somehow cut taxes for 95% of the population while also increasing government spending exponentially by instituting universal heath care and recruiting an "army" of teachers. It was pretty light on specifics about how such a plan could be fiscally possible. Oh, and did anyone else notice Barack wearing a flag lapel pin?
The Republic Convention was somewhat light on specifics too. But Palin did talk about building a natural gas pipeline running through Canada (in addition to adding nuclear, solar, wind, bio fuel and offshore drilling). McCain mentioned cutting the corporate tax in half to increase jobs and research and development, doubling the child tax credit to put more money into family's pockets, allowing for school choice (presumably through a voucher system) to increase competition and ultimately results, increasing free trade, and he also discussed cutting our dependence on foreign oil. It might not have been a complete speech about specifics, but at least it offered more than Obama's.
At his speech in Pennsylvania Friday, Biden complained that not once during the Republican Convention did a speaker mention the words "middle class". This was probably a play in Palin noting that Obama gave an entire speech about the wars America is engaged in without mentioning the word "victory." But Biden misses the point. The Republican platform isn't just designed to appeal to the middle class. It is a platform that will improve the lives of all Americans. Fewer taxes, less government spending, lower corporate taxes to help businesses grow, which leads to more jobs and more innovation.
Obama wants to convince voters that Republicans don't have a plan. But if the lack of specifics at a convention is evidence of such, Obama has even less of a plan. His convention was more about rehabbing his image and unifying the party then about appealing to undecided voters. The biggest problem is that Obama does have a plan - but if he lets Americans know too many specifics, they will reject it. It is far too liberal a plan to appeal to even most Democrats, let alone Republicans and Independents.
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And his plan would never pass as is once he got into office either, and he knows it.
don't underestimate the damage a super liberal president and super liberal congressional leadership could do to our country in four short years
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