So says Dick Morris. Obama’s first TV ad makes Mr. Government Health Care look like Mr. Conservative who supported welfare reform.
The problem is……….he didn’t.
Obama opposed the 1996 welfare reform act at the time. The Illinois law for which he takes credit, was merely the local implementing law the state was required to pass, and it did, almost unanimously. Obama’s implication — that he backed “moving people from welfare to work” — is just not true.
Morris says this is a golden opportunity for McCain to stop this Obamanable campaign to turn Barack into Buchanan.
In his effort to move to the center, Obama has distorted his own record, meager though it may be, and is taking credit for a program he strongly opposed. McCain should immediately run an ad in all of the states in which his opponent is advertising setting forth the facts and explaining Obama’s distortion.
A good tag line for the ad would be: “John McCain: when you have real experience, you don’t need to exaggerate.”
Heck, I’d go a step further. Hire Dick Morris, or put Mike Murphy in charge of messaging, or this battle might be over before we decide to fight. Here’s Morris’ entire column.
The opening is NOW!
The right wants to jeer him. The left wants to censor him. Moderates usually want both. Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, if only to prove that all actors aren’t liberals. Kirwin’s columns stir up debate and hit the political scene with no punches pulled. 
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I check out some of the wacko lefty sites around the Internet and they are rapidly losing patience with Obama. At first, they were willing to forgive him some “improvements” to his positions, because they reasoned that he had to move to the center on some things.
But, with his rightward drift (more like a pivot or a dash, really) on so many issues: FISA, gun control, abortion, welfare — and the granddaddy of them all, Iraq — they are getting frustrated.
My favorite on is http://www.democraticunderground.com.
Now, I think they will still come home and be there for him in November, but some of the rabid enthusiasm they once had has vanished. (This is also not even to consider some of the Hillary people who are still pissed.)
This is all very amusing. Who would have imagined that a Clinton would have been the more honest candidate vying for the Democratic nod? Obama ran to the left of Clinton to “out liberal” Clinton, rally the liberal base and squeak out a victory. Now that he has the spot, he moving a little closer to the middle. Now the liberals are stuck with Obama.
This will be interesting. I already hear some people singing praises to Obama, saying flip flopping is not a bad thing cos it shows he is open to amend positions when he receives more information. Interesting how that then points to his inexperience.
How will the Left criticize Conservatives for questioning Obama’s fitness when they are starting to raise some of the same issues? Like I said…interesting.