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More on Obama and the Blown Town Hall Opportunity

A commenter at the Plank has another reason why dismissing John McCain's town hall idea was a missed opportunity for Barack Obama (we discussed this yesterday): it would have distracted attention away from all the attacks that conventional wisdom says are dragging down Obama's poll numbers.

Here's jobeek2:

In 2004, the Republicans used the summer lull of non-news to ceaselessly hammer out the trivia of character assassination, and it worked. They're trying it again now... If Obama had agreed to a series of townhall debates, those encounters would have sucked up all the attention, and we wouldnt have had the news vacuum in which rumours and slander thrive...
I thought Obama should have agreed to the townhall debates even if it *had* been strategically disadvantageous, just because it would have been good for political culture and discourse, for the country basically. But even on a strategic level, participation would have escaped Obama the sordid mess he's confronting now.

Agreed.






Comments

Hey People,

obama chickend out because, he is NOTHING without his tele-prompter..!!! If REAL American citizen gets to start asking questions of obama, he is toast..!!!
How come you lt your kids sit and be indoctrinated by that Black KKK pastor...? Why would we elect you when you family has never been proud of America, even though we give more to humanity than any other country..?
Ths list goes on and on, but obama knows that he will go down in flames, unless the rock star is kept from the public..!!!
He is such a coward...!!!

Bill

Posted by: Bill Nigh on 08/05/08 at 9:48 AM  Respond

well Bill have you read any books lately or maybe the newspapers tell us if you are proud of america with G bush running it

Posted by: johnj on 08/05/08 at 10:45 AM  Respond

Hey johnj,

Of course i am proud of our contry..:-) A President is NOT a country, and obamas baby mama said whe was never proud of her COUNTRY, not a presidnet. Do you get the difference..?
The USA gives more humanitarian aid to needy countries than anyone else, and the black panther types, obama baby mama, never seem to address that, now do they..? Maybe if she got out of her ivory tower in chicago, and watched what her country does, then she woudl be prod of the USA.
obama will never get into the White House with his baggage and his attitude that he is ALREADY the president.

Bill

Posted by: Bill Nigh on 08/05/08 at 1:45 PM  Respond

Bill, drinking and typing are not a good combination for you, are they? Or English...or grammar... or coherent thought...or...

Posted by: Chuck on 08/05/08 at 2:18 PM  Respond

Hey chuck,

Well i guess everything i said was true, since you reverted to the ultimate in putdowns... Can't spell.. hahaha
To bad that the majority of Americans are seeing things the way i do and your man and his baby mama are going DOWN..!!!

Bill

Posted by: Bill Nigh on 08/05/08 at 4:27 PM  Respond

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