Newsweek and other organizations have used both terms to characterize the campaign. Note the story about funding troops with Cindy McCain's attack on Obama.Joe Biden addressed the general issue of personal attacks.
In his first solo campaign appearance since Sept. 26, the Democratic vice presidential candidate came out swinging against the Republican ticket, criticizing its “outrageous inferences” about Barack Obama. And he said the questions from average Americans at last night’s debate showed that Americans are “looking for a steady hand, leadership, an optimist. Not an angry man lurching from one position to another.”
“They have chosen … to appeal to fear with a veiled question: ‘Who is the real Barack Obama?’” Biden said.
The root of the problem, he said, is that McCain hired to run his campaign “the very political manipulators” who attacked him in the 2000 primary. Now, he said, they’re attacking Obama “in the ugliest of ways,” and “relying on political stunts instead of offering real solutions.”
Biden wasn't done there. He accused Sarah Palin, who has said Obama "pals around" with 1960's domestic terrorist William Ayers, of raising "outrageous inferences." He called Palin's attacks "simply wrong," especially coming from a candidate for vice president.
So, if you had any doubts about which way the campaign is heading, the road ahead seems pretty clear.
Biden is in a unique position to criticize McCain. They've been friends for 33 years. So it got very personal when Biden, as he has before, reminded McCain of the rumors and innuendos he endured in South Carolina during the 2000 Republican primary. McCain was wrongly accused of fathering a black child, an explosive charge especially in some parts of the south. The McCains have a daughter they adopted from Bangladesh, who has dark skin. The charge helped to derail McCain's campaign.
Today, Biden was indignant, calling McCain's recent charges against Obama "odious" and "beyond disappointing." Pointing out that McCain's TV ads have taken a sharp tack towards the negative, he said, "When you vote with President Bush 90% of the time, I guess your best hope is to attack your opponent 100% of the time."
"You can't call yourself a maverick when all you've ever been is a sidekick," Biden added.
His old friend, Biden insists, sees he's losing and has become desperate.
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so desperate that it looks as if hes turning to sparking racism to try and help him win..i was once a mccain fan, now i detest him..for a so called war hero, he sure is doing alot to tarnish this good nation...
phx, az
And that is what I see...A desperate old man trying to salvage what is left of his campaign. He relies on lies and inuendoes to turn the focus off what Americans are most interested in...the economy. Even last night his answers were the same old lines we have heard over the past 8 years. This is a 20th century man trying to make it in the 21st century and he is failing.
This is the 21st century and we are not starting out strong. We are in the biggest economic crisis ever and the Mccain campaign is focusing on where Obama had tea in 1995. Give me a break. I want to know how you are going to fix the economy and health care. I want to know how you are going to make us energy independent and I do not want to hear "drill baby drill".
People, do you really want 4 more years of leadership by a cranky old man and his mean spirited side kick. These 2 people supposedly have strong Christian values. Were are they now? These are not the type of people I want leading me.
Obama/Biden 08!!
Asheville, NC
America needs to see what McCain/Palin are all about. They are stirring up the worst hate-mongering in America.
When some members of the crowd shout out "kill him", "terrorist", "sit down, boy" and neither McCain or Palin do anything about it, then it is obviously very clear what they are trying to stir up.
Their campaign has taken a dangerous and violent tone and it must be stopped NOW. The press needs to bring this out in the national media and demand that McCain and Palin apologize for their despicable acts and call for an end to the supporters' hatred.
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