Obama playing it safe avoiding McCain? What about the troops who can't play it safe?

The AP reported that people in Obama's campaign said he was playing it safe as the front runner by avoiding doing joint Town Halls with McCain. Fort Hood must be one of the events worth avoiding to him. The troops can't play it safe. They go where they are sent. They do what they are ordered to do and they stay until they receive orders to return home. Seems that for both men this is just politics as usual.

It's mystifying how Obama can suddenly go from sounding like a breath of fresh air in politics to using talking points in order to get toward the "middle ground" when no one wanted him there. Catch the polls lately? When he was running against Senator Clinton and the rest of the pack, he not only sounded different but he was saying what most of us have been waiting to hear. He sounded like we mattered, the people of this country were going to be counted once again. What we really value mattered and the rest of the garbage we've been hearing for the last eight years has been reduced to rants from the fringe.

McCain has gone from a level, albeit hotheaded senator, speaking out on what he saw was abuse of power to being a Bush lap dog in heat over taking over his seat. He sold out everything most people admired about him and now he approves television ads that are lies. The selling job of Obama being an elitists didn't take into consideration Obama and his wife finished paying off their student loans while McCain tossed his disabled wife over for Cindy's millions. As for Obama there is a problem with him too. How can it be that he pulls such huge crowds as he did in Titusville Florida but the polls have him tied to McCain who could hold his appearances in Checker's parking lot with seats left over? (If you never heard of Checker's, it's a drive in burger chain with great hot dogs but the only tables are outside.) None of this makes sense at all. It would be great if just once they would be hooked up to a lie detector every time they opened their mouths and whenever they were covering up for how they really feel they got zapped.

Obama backs away from McCain's debate challenge
Associated Press
Published: Saturday August 2, 2008


WASHINGTON — Democratic candidate Barack Obama on Saturday backed away from rival John McCain's challenge for a series of joint appearances, agreeing only to the standard three debates in the fall.

Obama's reversal on town hall debates is part of a play-it-safe strategy he's adopted since claiming the nomination and grabbing a lead in national polls. Advisers to the Illinois senator, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss strategy, say Obama is reluctant to take chances or give McCain a high-profile stage now that Obama's the front-runner.

In May, when a McCain adviser proposed a series of pre-convention appearances at town hall meetings, Obama said, "I think that's a great idea." In summer stumping on the campaign trail, McCain has often noted that Obama had not followed through and joined him in any events.
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