Vacation over, Obama in fighting form
By: Kenneth P. Vogel
The Politico
August 18, 2008
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Barack Obama has emerged from a weeklong family vacation with a little bit of a cold, but also with a more confrontational campaign strategy. It includes going public with new attacks and trying to turn Republican attacks — and even John McCain's own jokes — back at McCain.
Obama, who in recent weeks has faced complaints from Democrats questioning whether his campaign is hitting back hard enough, in the last couple of days has come out with guns blazing, mocking Republican attacks and confidently predicting he'll be able to beat them back.
His campaign brushes off suggestions that he's shifted tack heading into the next week's Democratic convention in Denver. But the campaign itself has gone public with the kind of detailed opposition research attacks it had previously been pushing behind the scenes, including one suggesting that McCain has a "woman problem" and another linking the presumptive GOP nominee to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The result is an aggressive strategy that seems to court conflict and taunt McCain.
On Sunday at a Reno, Nev., town hall, Obama suggested that McCain's recent decision to push for offshore drilling was driven by polls.
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The Politico
August 18, 2008
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Barack Obama has emerged from a weeklong family vacation with a little bit of a cold, but also with a more confrontational campaign strategy. It includes going public with new attacks and trying to turn Republican attacks — and even John McCain's own jokes — back at McCain.
Obama, who in recent weeks has faced complaints from Democrats questioning whether his campaign is hitting back hard enough, in the last couple of days has come out with guns blazing, mocking Republican attacks and confidently predicting he'll be able to beat them back.
His campaign brushes off suggestions that he's shifted tack heading into the next week's Democratic convention in Denver. But the campaign itself has gone public with the kind of detailed opposition research attacks it had previously been pushing behind the scenes, including one suggesting that McCain has a "woman problem" and another linking the presumptive GOP nominee to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The result is an aggressive strategy that seems to court conflict and taunt McCain.
On Sunday at a Reno, Nev., town hall, Obama suggested that McCain's recent decision to push for offshore drilling was driven by polls.
(Continued here.)
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