Barack Obama Wishes Everyone Would Stop Talking About Things That Are Inconvenient For His Campaign
All that is inconvenient for Barack Obama politically is just a distraction from the real issues.
RALEIGH, N.C.—A woman took the microphone at a town hall meeting here and stated the obvious to Sen. Barack Obama about last night’s ABC News debate.
“You were really pummeled,” she told the Illinois senator. All those questions on William Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, flag pins and guns made her wonder about the general election attacks yet to come. “What is your strategy to beat the Republicans in November?” the woman asked Obama.
“That was the roll out of the Republican campaign against me,” Obama responded. “That is what they will do. They will try to focus on all these issues.” He said he would answer the attacks “sharply and crisply,” and seek to turn the debate from “tit-for-tat silliness” to serious issues like the economy and Iraq. “If Republicans come at me, I will come right back at them,” Obama asserted, to loud cheers.
If Barack Obama thinks the average American - who is likely to just be beginning to engage in the Presidential race as the general election begins - isn’t going to care about Tony Rezko, Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright and William Ayers he’s kidding himself.
