Time to Stay on the Offense

Well, finally. Good for you! Barack, I always knew you had it in you. Doesn’t it feel better to defend yourself and not allow yourself to be incorrectly defined? All of your supporters see what’s been going on, but there are millions of people out there in TV land who, with the help of the media (which will never be on your side), believe what they hear and sadly will probably never hear an opposing viewpoint or rebuttal to the tremendously biased information that is fed to them.

But you have gone a long way toward counteracting that condition. The media will pay attention to you if you rise up in defense of your position if it is done in easily digestible bites, where the average American can easily understand your point and is able to contrast the truth with the lies that are being served up by your opponents. I think you have breathed life back into half of this country today.

Now it’s time to go on the offense. How do you do that? Easy and quite simple! Start asking John McCain how it is that he can claim to be supporting the troops when he recently rallied against the 2008 GI Bill and didn’t even show up to vote for it. You need to explain McCain’s stated reason for being against it and why he was so completely misguided and just plain wrong. You can also throw in that McCain also voted against almost a dozen bills over the past twenty years that would have provided support to troops in harm’s way, assistance to returning veterans in both healthcare and other financing, and that it is just unbelievable that a veteran like McCain would not be empathetic to the plight of the men and women in uniform and recognize that they, like him at the time, deserve the compassion and appreciation of their government.

Another great issue is this conjured up benefit to drilling offshore in all areas of this country and the manufactured criticism that you are somehow against helping to find domestic sources of fuel and energy and just want to stick it to the American people and continue supporting foreign dictators. This is just a ridiculous argument and should be turned right back on McCain. You have had to endure being mocked about keeping our tires properly inflated, etc. It is imperative that you turn the tables on McCain by asking him to explain how long this supposed drilling will actually benefit our country, to acknowledge that any newly discovered gasoline would be owned and controlled by the very oil companies that are already screwing the American consumer and that they will most likely try to sell any new-found oil to foreign buyers that are willing to pay top dollar for it. You can also point out that McCain has voted for years against wind farms, searches and funding for alternative sources of energy, etc.

Let’s face it, Barack. There are a lot of issues to choose from. John McCain is a walking contradiction and a flip-flopper extraordinaire. He is busy at the moment hiding behind the media created and overly hyped Sarah Palin, but if you handle this correctly and call on him to answer some very serious questions that not only deserve an answer, but will actually get the attention of the media and ultimately of the American people, he will be forced to come out and at least bob and weave, and you will have successfully turned some of these wedge issues that he’s been slamming you with right back on him, and I believe with all my heart that he is very vulnerable on so many topics and the last thing he’s expecting or prepared to do is have to answer to anybody at this point.

We’re all fired up, Barack. You got us to this point. Take us the rest of the way!! We’re almost there. Let’s take it to ‘em.