Thursday, April 03, 2008

GOP eying Obama's glass jaw

Reuters:

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"I believe he has a glass jaw -- and he is going to get hit hard," said Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio.

Obama's voting record in the U.S. Senate -- one magazine ranked him the most liberal senator in 2007 -- and during his years in the Illinois state Senate will get a more thorough examination in a campaign against Republican John McCain than it has so far, he said.

"He portrays himself as a centrist and a moderate, but if you look at his votes it's tough to see anything but a liberal. He is more liberal than Hillary Clinton," Fabrizio said.

The questions raised by Clinton about Obama's lack of experience and suitability as commander in chief will be revitalized, Republicans say, as will the controversy about inflammatory comments by Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.

Coupling that with Obama's weakness among blue-collar Democrats and Hispanics, and the possibility of a prolonged nominating fight that turns off Clinton backers and independents, Republicans are gaining confidence about a November race against Obama.

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"What more are you going to tell the American people about Hillary Clinton? But most Americans didn't even know Barack Obama eight months ago, and there is so much more for them to know."
The media has not yet begun to mine his profound ignorance of what is actually happening in Iraq such as his absurd statements about the Anbar Awakening during one of the debates. The Democrats did not challenge on the statements because most of them were probably just as ignorant, but John McCain knows what is going on there and will not let such ignorance slide. It is too important. He is already calling Obama on his politics of fraud over the "100 years war" comments. Add to that the fact that Obama has been just flat wrong about the war and the surge for over a year and voters are going to start noticing more than his 2003 speech.

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