McCain Manager: 'This Election is Not About Issues' »
Posted By Aidenag 1 year, 4 months ago in NewsRick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain's presidential bid, insisted that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues during an interview with Post editors this morning.
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Klarissa1 year, 4 months ago
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I will leave you all to your character assassination and wait for something more interesting.
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wikipedia:
Character assassination is an intentional attempt to influence the portrayal or reputation of a particular person, whether living or a historical personage, in such a way as to cause others to develop an extremely negative, unethical or unappealing perception of him or her.
By its nature, it involves deliberate exaggeration or manipulation of facts to present an untrue picture of the targeted person. For living individuals, this can cause the target to be rejected by his or her community, family, or members of his or her living or work environment.
Such acts are typically very difficult to reverse or rectify, therefore the process is likened to a literal assassination of a human life. The damage sustained can be life-long and more, or for historical personages, last for many centuries after their death.
In practice, character assassination usually consists of the use of double speak, spreading of rumors, innuendo and deliberate misinformation on topics relating to one's morals, integrity, and reputation. -
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Progressive1 year, 4 months ago
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It's easy to see why the GOP wants to re-ignite the culture war rather than focus on issues. McCain has the second worst voting record in the Senate. The only person who has been absent more that McCain is a guy who had some major health problem that prevented him from showing up.
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jordan111 year, 4 months ago
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Shadowolf1 year, 4 months ago
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" I am John McCain...I have nothing to make you wanna vote for me; so I'll just throw a bunch of Fear, Smear, Lies and Spin all over the airwaves to make you wanna NOT vote for that black guy who sounds like a Black Muslim, which is the Middle East version of a Gook, this is why I can't tell them terrorists over there apart; they're ALL Gooks...and did I mention that my opponent is Black, and his name sounds like that terrorist that we won't even go after because he's all tied in with the Bushes...so don't vote for my opponent...
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My name's John McCain, and after I approve this message I'm gonna puke..."-
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GWHayduke1 year, 4 months ago
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SOLD!
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Its an easy sell really.
Present the unknown as something you (and your thoughtless followers) can predict as reality (think NYC mushroom clouds) and more speculation that your opponent is less prepared to make a rational, well thought out decision (Palin as VP?!?) and there you have it.
Fear of the unknown is a strange motivator, and leads to irrational decision making.
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nikkibabe1 year, 4 months ago
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Absolutely. Here are the details:
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. McCain has no plans of his own except to continue Bush. So the issues are already there.
. McCain's only strength is personal attacks on Obama. He has enough attack dogs to do it. Who can compete with a PIG from CT.
. He just wants get elected for the history books. He will be long gone before his term.
It will dumb voters who support him who will be left stranded with 4 more years of wars, tax cuts, massive deficits, $trillion debt to China, more jobs shipped overseas and crumbling roads, highways and bridges. -
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ISITJUSTME1 year, 4 months ago
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When you are on the wrong side of all the major issues, what else can you do. What surprises me is that the McCain campaign in brazen enough to openly admit it. The republicans think the American public are a bunch of Jethro Bodines. Talk about being elitist.
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canadianrancher571 year, 4 months ago
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Now the statement that "This election is Not About Issues" shows why there is a problem in your country, alot of those who are running are no longer what I would call ordinary people of your country, and those who are advising are not ordninary people, there is a disconnect between government and the people. If it is not about issues why has the press been full of stories over the last few years about the war, oil prices, the economy, government corruption and the list goes on and on. No single person whether in your country of any other country makes up a government, but it is a combination of people who are trying to address the ISSUES of the people that is government .
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McCains manager is a idiot in my opinion and yet these people who are disconnected with society seem to get positions that affect the direction of our nations. -
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Charlson1 year, 4 months ago
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'This Election is Not About Issues'
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Which is one reason McCain's campaign has tried to paint Obama as a celebrity, elitist, Muslim, and unpatriotic, and trying to ignore the real issues that our country so desperately needs to address. The economy, the war, the balance of power within the three branches of government, the eroding of our Constitution, the lack of Congressional oversight, the transfer of wealth to the haves from the have nots, the destruction of our middle class, the new theocracy within our military and our government and the erosion of our prestige around the world. -
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diogenes21st1 year, 4 months ago
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When Bill Clinton ran in 1992, the sign in his campaign's war room said, "It's the economy, stupid." They focused on that and won. If the sign in John McCain's war room says, "It's not about issues, stupid," God help us all if he wins. Because "stupid" won't just be referring to the candidate and his campaign advisors.
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crespi1 year, 4 months ago
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"This election not about the issues..."
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Not if McCain can help it...
I agree with Charlson. CNN and Fox"News" screamed for a 12 hours that Michelle Obama was a "gangster" because she did the Howie Mandel knuckle bump, and when THAT made the media look HEINOUS AND RIDICULOUS they screamed for another 24 hours that she was a terrorist (for doing the Howie Mandel knuckle bump.) I have it on tape. It really reveals who totally owns the mainstream media (hint: it ain't the liberals)
The Cons are so afraid of the American people getting their voice back in our Democracy they are openly lying, smearing and going viciously insane...
Watch out they don't bomb an American city and try to blame it on the Iranians.
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pcknowledge1 year, 4 months ago
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John McCain:
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This election is not about the unplanned, unjustified Iraq war which has killed thousands of innocent people on both sides. Those innocent lifes are not important to us pro life religious Republicans! And Bin Ladin, who?
This election is not about the economy, which stopped generating new jobs since Bush took over. Who needs a job? Such a old fashioned concept! We need church, religion, home schooling!
This election is not about the home foreclosures throughout our country. Who needs a home?
This job is not about our poor healthcare system. Who needs healthcare except for John McCain who has melanoma, Palin who's had 5 children, and Palin's daughter, who is pregnant?
This election is not about the fallen value of the dollar. It's Euro now, get it!
This election is about...it's about...well what the hell is it about? -
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willottica1 year, 4 months ago
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My only question:
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With an divorced adulterer on the top of the ticket, and a VP selection with a pregnant unwed teenage daughter, have the Republicans given away the "family values" vote?
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Charlson1 year, 4 months ago
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Apparently they trotted out the tired and phony "family values" again at the RNC. It will only work with the diehard Bushbots and McBush hero worshippers. The rest of us get it. We know that they neither have family values or real concern about our nation and it's decline because they put party above country. If they were really concerned then issues should be at the forefront in any interview and not personalities.
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