Thursday, October 16, 2008

A Missed Step

So the debate last night. Joe the Plumber and all that.

As usual, there was one line of attack that I really feel was missing that seemed pretty obvious to me. This one in particular I feel could have been a really amazing jab at McCain:

When the talk turned to the campaigns themselves, and negative ads, McCain's main zinger was that Obama spent more on negative ads than anyone ever. This is technically true, but only because Obama has spent more on everything than anyone ever; only about a third of his ads were negative. Obama could have said this, but THEN he come back to a point he had briefly made, that campaigns will always get tough. That by seeming to expect basically no negative campaigning (apparently), John McCain was being naive! OOOH!

Or maybe it just would have made him look like an asshole, I don't know, people are weird about stuff like that. The point is, Joe the Plumber.

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