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Obama and McCain get personal attacks in full view
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Frank Cotolo
6 Oct 2008 |
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Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama were preparing for their
second debate by attacking one another personally the day before they meet
again on the same stage.
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McCain accused Obama of a "barrage of angry insults" and asked,
"Who is the real Barack Obama?"
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A veteran election expert who has written many books on Presidential
campaigns but wanted to remain anonymous because all of those books are out
of print and he cannot find another publisher, said that McCain's statement
means that the Republican candidate is suspicious if the man calling himself
Barack Obama is actually the Barack Obama that has been running.
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"It could be an imposter," the expert said, "and McCain is insinuating that
the Obama everyone has been going nuts over could be a look-alike, a
sound-alike and someone who dresses like the phenomena." The expert said
this trick was originally pulled of by The Beatles when they replaced an
ill-fated Paul McCartney.
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The Obama camp replied to the author's translation of McCain's personal
attack with the following statement: "That Beatles thing was a hoax but
McCain is not hip enough to know it. Our Obama is the real Obama. There is no
other Obama."
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Then the Obama campaign became negative when a campaign advisor said,
"Mr. McCain was one of the Keating Five in that savings and loan scandal two
decades ago. Were it not for his involvement, they would have been known as
the Keating Four. But there were five and he made it five. Four plus McCain
is the Keating Five."
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Another Obama spokesperson said, "McCain is someone who sees America as his
own country, like he owns it and can build anything he wants to on his land.
He forgets what Woody Guthrie had us all singing, you know? I mean that
song about the land being yours and mine from here to over there, you know?"
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McCain's running-mate Sarah Palin said she knew all the words to the Guthrie song better than Obama did.
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Arlo Guthrie, the famous son of Woody Guthrie, who probably knows the words
to that song better than all of the candidates, was not available for comment.
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Tuesday, at the next debate, this one where the candidates will sit on stools
and be free to roam the stage at Belmont University in Nashville, McCain
spokespeople said it may be possible that their candidate will look at Obama,
unlike in the first debate.
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