"The way they planned it tonight was supposed to be sort of the personal — Michelle Obama will talk about Barack Obama personally, Ted Kennedy was a very personal, emotional speech," Carville said. "But I guarantee on the first night of the Republican Convention, you're going to hear talk about Barack Obama, commander-in-chief, tax cuts, et cetera, et cetera."
Not that I want to help out the Obama campaign but attacks on McCain are a waste of time. Because of McCain's experience and notoriety, changing the narrative on him will be next to impossible.
It's actually impossible for the McCain camp to change the narrative about their own candidate. People already have their impressions on McCain ingrained in stone. Just read any conservative blogger and you will read the disdain they have for McCain. People like myself, who will end up voting for McCain, cannot stand the way he's sold out conservatives for political expediency. Anything he does to mend those fences will be seen as politically expedient because the narrative is so strong.
Once again, this election will be all about Obama. Obama's an unknown quantity. His experience his sparse and there's not a lot about his personal narrative known to the public.
The Obama campaign needs to provide the public a reason to vote for him. McCain's got an easier job because they can shape lot's of reasons to vote against him.
As it is, the Obama campaign is working right into the hands of McCain camp. He's soft on experience, so Obama selects Biden as his VP. He's got an association with domestic terrorists, so Obama releases an ad noting Ayers as a radical. He's a celebrity so he surrounds his convention with celebrities.
So Obama, you keep running those McCain = Bush ads and when you see those dead cat bounces just remember, I told you so.
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