More of This Please
I believe that John McCain is an easy target for Barack Obama to go after. There is no need to go after him on personal issues, like the Republicans do regularly. He has been in Washington for 26+ years. There is an ample record that should make for easy pickings to break down the facade that the media has helped to erect.
Hopefully this will be the start of this campaign, and not a one off:
Barack Obama sought to regain the political offensive on Monday, painting John McCain as part of the problem when it comes to comprehensive energy reform. Quoting the Arizona Republican as saying that "our dangerous dependence on foreign oil has been thirty years in the making," Obama leveled one of the more direct criticisms he's offered in this campaign.
"What Senator McCain neglected to mention was that during those thirty years, he was in Washington for twenty-six of them," said the Senator. "And in all that time, he did little to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. He voted against increased fuel efficiency standards and opposed legislation that included tax credits for more efficient cars. He voted against renewable sources of energy. Against clean biofuels. Against solar power. Against wind power. Against an energy bill that -- while far from perfect -- represented the largest investment in renewable sources of energy in the history of this country. So when Senator McCain talks about the failure of politicians in Washington to do anything about our energy crisis, it's important to remember that he's been a part of that failure."
I have said repeatedly, in different forums, that this is the very tactic that the Obama campaign needs to run with this season.
There is so much that McCain has lingering out there, against him, that to not fully exploit it all is just silly.
Let's hope this is just the beginning.
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