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Obama, McCain campaigns engage in hard-hitting politics, but show differences in style, tone
Tuesday, August 05, 2008 | No comments posted.
WASHINGTON (AP) — For all the talk about John McCain’s hard-hitting politics, Barack Obama is hardly innocent.
Both candidates and their allies are fully engaged in creating unflattering caricatures of each other that they hope will stick in voters’ minds for the next three months.
Obama and his Democratic allies argue that the Republican is negative and offers nothing new, while McCain and his Republicans claim the Democrat is presumptuous and ill-prepared.
“They’re cynical,” Obama recently charged of McCain and his followers, adding: “They want to distract people from talking about the real issues.” One day earlier, the Democrat issued a fundraising appeal accusing McCain of taking “the low road” and stooping to “the same old smears” by launching “a desperate new set of attacks” each day.
McCain disputed that. “This is a very respectful campaign. I don’t think our campaign is negative in the slightest,” he said. His comments came the same week he agreed with a top aide’s charge that Obama had “played the race card” and rolled out a TV commercial that mocking Obama as “the biggest celebrity in the world” and asking: “Is he ready to lead?”
Both candidates and their allies are fully engaged in creating unflattering caricatures of each other that they hope will stick in voters’ minds for the next three months.
Obama and his Democratic allies argue that the Republican is negative and offers nothing new, while McCain and his Republicans claim the Democrat is presumptuous and ill-prepared.
“They’re cynical,” Obama recently charged of McCain and his followers, adding: “They want to distract people from talking about the real issues.” One day earlier, the Democrat issued a fundraising appeal accusing McCain of taking “the low road” and stooping to “the same old smears” by launching “a desperate new set of attacks” each day.
McCain disputed that. “This is a very respectful campaign. I don’t think our campaign is negative in the slightest,” he said. His comments came the same week he agreed with a top aide’s charge that Obama had “played the race card” and rolled out a TV commercial that mocking Obama as “the biggest celebrity in the world” and asking: “Is he ready to lead?”
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