Hello Everyone:

Barack Obama showed again in this campaign speech from last Saturday, April 26 that he has no concept or understanding about the kind of fight that he will be in for and how to effectively fight back against the other side in the general election IF he is the nominee:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/26/bb.01.html

BALLOT BOWL 2008

Campaigning Continues in Indiana and North Carolina

Aired April 26, 2008 - 15:00   ET

JIM ACOSTA, CNN NEWS ANCHOR: "Welcome back to BALLOT BOWL on CNN, I'm Jim Acosta in Anderson, Indiana, where Barack Obama is just about to wrap up a speech and town hall meeting here at this high school in central Indiana. He, just a few moments ago, talked about the rhetoric, how it has been heating up out in the campaign trail. Some of the jabs from Hillary Clinton, he says, is having no affect on his campaign and he insists that despite the tit-for-tat he is not going to respond in kind. And just a few moments ago he fired up this crowd when he said sometimes when you have to be tough you don't fight back. Here's Barack Obama.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BARACK OBAMA (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: As I said, John McCain and I have real differences but I always make a point of saying, I respect him as a person, I respect his service to our country, I think she a good person. I don't -- so question have arguments and disagreements without running the other person down.

(APPLAUSE)

But -- but, you know, that requires a president who has the confidence to stand there and -- sometimes you take some hits. I mean, even during this campaign, I've been taking some hits. And, you know, people -- it's interesting, when I don't always hit back, then folks are, what's the matter with him? How come -- maybe he's not mean enough? Maybe he's not tough enough. You know, one of the things I learned in the schoolyard was the folks who were talking tough all the time, they're not always that tough.

(APPLAUSE)

Right? If you're really tough, if you're really tough, you're not always looking to try to start a fight. If you're really tough, sometimes you just walk away. If you're really tough, sometimes you know, you just save it for when you really need it. And so what I'm interested in, I'm not interested in fighting people just for the sake of scoring political points or getting on the cable news shows. If I'm going to fight somebody, it's going to be fighting over the American people, and what they need. I'll fight for healthcare. I'll fight for a good education system. I'll fight to make sure that people have good jobs and good wages. I'll fight to the death to make sure that America is safe, those things I'll fight for, that's what I'll fight about.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ACOSTA: And Barack Obama insisting there that when he fights it's for the people, not in the midst of the political campaign going one on one with an opponent. So Barack Obama, despite the fact he has come under heavy criticism, even within some Democratic circles, for not responding in kind for the tough attacks coming from Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama saying, that no, he's going to keep his powder dry in the midst of this campaign and keep things on an even keel..."

The problem with Obama's reasoning is that you cannot just ignore what the other side does to you in a general election fight because you are allowing them to negatively define you as a candidate before middle America and these are the key people in the center who untimately decide close elections! 

That is exactly what happened to John Kerry in 2004 when he ignored the Swiftboat Veterans for too long and when he allowed them to negatively define him as a candidate which Campbell Brown of CNN credibly documented:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/28/se.02.html

CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL

Campaign Killers: Why Do Negative Ads Work?

Aired November 28, 2007 - 23:00 ET

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "John Kerry lied to get his bronze star. I know. I was there. I saw what happened.

CAMPBELL BROWN, HOST: There was plenty of evidence to contradict the ad, but it didn't matter. The charges seemed to stick.

MARK MCKINNON, FMR. MEDIA ADVISER, GEORGE W. BUSH: I knew it was going to have a huge impact, and the only surprise was that the Kerry campaign didn't respond quicker.

STEPHANIE CUTTER, KERRY CAMPAIGN COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR: In retrospect, we probably should have had him respond earlier. And there was much debate about that in the campaign..."

Obama is DEAD WRONG when he said "You know, one of the things I learned in the schoolyard was the folks who were talking tough all the time, they're not always that tough" because the Neocon GOP attack machine IS that tough as Mark Halperin and John Harris very credibly documented:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100301030_pf.html

The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008
Chapter 1: The Way to Lose

By Mark Halperin and John F. Harris
Tuesday, October 3, 2006; 6:08 PM

"The bottom line was that the Bush campaign and its allies did a better job than the Kerry campaign and its allies in using the Freak Show -- its magnification of the personal and negative -- to define the opposing candidate. But the story as told in this chapter is a tactical one. What is more important for the next presidential election is the strategic reality that the Freak Show does not affect both parties equally.

The dynamic in 2008 will be the same as it was in 2004. There are structural issues in politics and media that now favor Republicans over Democrats. Freak Show politics will represent only a moderate threat to Republicans and give them a major advantage as they try to define the opposition on unfavorable terms. On the other side, Freak Show politics offers virtually no advantages for Democrats, but will again present a huge threat to any politician hoping to keep control of the narrative of his -- or her -- life story..."

I articulated further about that book in this post:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/8841

ANALYSIS: A great Washington Post article about how the media affects Democrats!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on October 5, 2006 - 2:03pm.

Obama also does NOT understand how powerful that Rush Limbaugh and his extreme right wing Neocon talk radio media empire is which will steamroll over him in the general election IF he is the nominee:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/13578

ANALYSIS: Why Rush Limbaugh is so powerful & what many media pundits do not get!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on October 10, 2007 - 1:47am.

Obama will NOT be able to avoid that schoolyard fight in the general election because there will NOT be any teachers or parents around for him to run to and cry foul or unfair which I credibly documented:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15330

IF nominated, Obama will be forced to play "Gotcha" whether he likes it or not!
 
Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on April 21, 2008 - 9:00am.

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15195

Mitt Romney is right that Obama "can't be calling foul or unfair" IF nominated!

Submitted by Mitch Dworkin on April 5, 2008 - 5:46am. 

Biased pro-Obama media pundits such as Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Jack Cafferty cannot help Obama in the general election the way that they are helping him in the Democratic primary because many more disillusioned Republicans and right leaning Independents in the center watch FOX News instead of them!

Nick Kelly in my opinion is right about how that the extreme right wing assault on Barack Obama is already starting right now:

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/15352

Bad News for Sen. Obama - The Right Wing Assault Won't Start In August After All

Submitted by Nick Kelly on April 23, 2008 - 2:11pm.

Here is the YouTube video of the ad that the North Carolina Republican Party is running right now using Obama to negatively define local Democratic candidates:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXxkctYRAZQ&eurl

Extreme (00:41)

Here is the YouTube video of the ad that ExposeObama.com is running against Obama right now to negatively define him as a candidate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV0MmuRxnNs

Expose Obama (01:00)

Even Chris Matthews and Joan Walsh got it right about how effective that this ad will be against Obama in the general election IF he is the nominee:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24293399/

'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for Wednesday, April 23
Read the transcript to the Wednesday show

Guests: John Baer, Michael Smerconish, E. Steven Collins, Ron Brownstein, Roger Simon, Jonathan Capehart, Joan Walsh

CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST:  "It‘s a giant permission slip for somebody who doesn‘t want to vote for him to begin with.  And it‘s also a permission slip for the Republican party to use him as a target throughout the general election.  Right, Joan? 

JOAN WALSH, SALON.COM:  Yes, this definitely proves, as Jonathan said, that nothing Hillary has done to date is really even a tenth of what will happen to him in the general election.  It‘s not a reason not to nominate him, because she will have—we can all sit around and write the attack ads on her.  It‘s going to be a nasty race.  The one thing she has is that she‘s faced it before and she‘s fought back..."

This is probably a very good reason along with demographics about why Dana Bash of CNN, who is a truly objective reporter, said that the McCain campaign "are beginning to think that Hillary Clinton would be a much more formidable opponent at this point than Barack Obama is:"

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0804/22/se.01.html

CNN LIVE EVENT/SPECIAL

Tracking Results and Predicting Outcomes for the Battle for Pennsylvania

Aired April 22, 2008 - 19:00   ET

DANA BASH, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: "But there's an interesting kind of addendum I think to this whole gaming it out inside the McCain camp and that is while they do think, and they have concluded that this Democratic race going on actually does help John McCain, they are saying that if Hillary Clinton actually pulls it out ultimately, and does win the Democratic nomination, they are starting to think, looking at various things with regard to the map and with regard to the kind of Democratic voters she can pulling her way in thighs primary contests, they actually are beginning to think that Hillary Clinton would be a much more formidable opponent at this point than Barack Obama is..."

Democratic primary voters and superdelegates in my opinion are very seriously risking political suicide IF they give the nomination to Obama because the evidence very clearly shows that he is probably NOT electable under normal circumstances! 

Change is only change IF a candidate can get elected so Obama will NOT be able to change anything if he cannot get elected just like how John Kerry could not change anything after he lost to Bush in 2004.  Unfortunately there is a lot more on the line now in 2008 than there was back in 2004 after all of the damage that Bush and Cheney have caused which makes this an extremely important choice for the superdelegates to make in my opinion when they eventually choose the nominee!

Right below is the ExposeObama.com website which is just the tip of the iceberg of what is to come that will probably sink Obama in the general election IF he is the nominee because he has no concept or understanding about how to fight back against them when they negatively define him as a candidate before middle America.  This is what the superdelegates must come to understand about Obama right now while there is still time!

Mitch Dworkin

http://www.securingamerica.com/

http://securingamerica.com/ccn/node/10756
StopIranWar.com: "War is not the answer"
Submitted by Wes Clark on February 21, 2007 - 11:40am.

http://www.securingamerica.com/ccn/node/7191
Listen to Gen. Wes Clark fight for Dems on Sean Hannity's radio program: An excellent example for all of us to follow and what we all need to be doing to help fight back against extreme right wing Neocon smear propaganda!

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What's the Matter With Obama
By Robert D. Novak
Washington Post

Traveling the country the past few months, I have encountered habitual Republican voters so entranced by Barack Obama's potential to lead the nation that they plan to vote for him in November.

Read The Full Story

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/20/AR2008042001754.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV0MmuRxnNs  (1:00) 

Obama’s Critique of Small Towns Reveals Truths
By Floyd Brown
ExposeObama.com

Barack Obama said the people in the small towns of Pennsylvania "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them". He spoke aloud what many liberals think. His remarks in San Francisco, which have now come to be known as "Bittergate," are very telling about the man.

Read The Full Story

http://2minuteview.blogspot.com/2008/04/obamas-critique-of-small-towns-reveals.html

The Shepard’s Crook of Christianity
By Bruce Hawkins
ExposeObama.com

Read The Full Story

http://weeklyreviewusa.blogspot.com/2008/04/shepards-crook-of-christianity.html

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