Barack Obama Pounds 'No Change McCain'
Obama hits McCain between the eyes. How can McCain claim that the fundamentals of the US economy are sound, when the country is currently experiencing the largest amount of home foreclosures since the Great Depression? How out of touch do you have to be to say that at such a time?
Obama says this is "indicative of a different world view of what's happening in America." As he says, and it resonates I think, a president who holds that mindset isn't going to look out for ordinary middle class Americans.
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It works on another level as well.
The McCain's are people who had everything handed to them, either by marriage of inheritance.
They are not people who rose to the top by hard work, dedication, ingenuity, and taking risks. On a level playing field, these people would flounder. They are a perversion and an aberration of the American system (in theory), not proof of it's glory. This goes against something very deep in the American psyche. The McCain's resemble American royalty, and those two words don't go together here.
Royalty is for foreigners. No offence intended, of course. Americans may admire and be enchanted by foreign royalty, but that's because it's foreign. An intrinsic part of the American Delusion is that we are all essentially equal when it comes down to it, and we all have an equal shot at the top if you play your hand right.
One simply does not look at the McCain's servant staff, private jets, multiple homes and executive perks and think "These people need a tax cut".
And "war hero" just doesn't work with this line of attack. There are thousands of war heroes out there living hand to mouth, and McCain thinks they are doing "just fine". Being a war hero doesn't justify wealth and excess in the American psyche - quite the opposite, in fact. McCain is coming dangerously close to wearing out the "POW" defence already, and "war hero" is going to take a beating with these new developments.
Oh Todd, I think the POW defence is gone, especially with Biden on board. He's already pointed out Giuliani's penchant for 9-11, it won't take him long to take McCain down for the POW defence.
And you are right, they are American royalty. Neither of them got where they did finacially through hard work. As you say, it was marriage and inheritance.
I honestly believe that the fact that McCain couldn't name how many houses he and Cindy have has blown his entire strategy apart. His whole campaign was built on Obama the "elitist"; that's gone now, although I notice it's taking McCain too long to notice that this line of attack is now defunct.
Obama is doing well to hammer home the point that this rich man isn't the ordinary Joe he's pretending to be. Ordinary Joe's don't think you need to earn five million a year to be considered rich. I honestly don't know how McCain ever thought this kite would fly.
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