Is Obama hurting himself with Negative Campaigning?

[Templeton]

Totally does! Just as I thought.

[Jerry19127]

Hello, racist.

Hey toots..Can we share a drink at the next PS get together? I'll bring the Tylenol. Please bring your intellectual superiority. Thanks

[enyo]

I think the Negative ads are more of a strong suite for Obama. I'd say in general that obama fields questions better than romney. I can't put my finger on it, but Romney emits a certain slimy pompous persona on defense. The ad about the women w/ cancer didn't bode well for Romney either and his own team hit it home for obama when she said the lady would've been covered if she lived in Massachusetts. Romney's negative ads on the other hand seem to blow up in his face when they are fact-checked.

[CenterCityGuy]

I am curious if other people feel a little (or more ) dissapointment that Obama has gone so negative with his re-election campaign, or endorced PAC's to do so.
Is it a sign that maybe he is just the same as all the others, and begs us wonder where is the hope and change in a leader that we so desperately wanted?

i hope so. time for that idiot to go

[FKD19124]

Hello, racist.

[Politburo]

can't make his own arguments so he pastes images from facebook

Do you agree with Jerry19127's comment?

[seand]

I think the Negative ads are more of a strong suite for Obama. I'd say in general that obama fields questions better than romney. I can't put my finger on it, but Romney emits a certain slimy pompous persona on defense. The ad about the women w/ cancer didn't bode well for Romney either and his own team hit it home for obama when she said the lady would've been covered if she lived in Massachusetts. Romney's negative ads on the other hand seem to blow up in his face when they are fact-checked.

Pro-Romney negative ads tend to make a false claim that then falls apart. Pro-Obama ads, like the one about the guy laid-off from the steel mill closed by Bain, seem to imply something they don't actually say but actually say something that is uncomfortable for Romney. They are actually about the trap then ensues when they complain about the ad, almost like Brer Rabbit's proverbial tar baby. Guy's wife died later, etc., but you can't complain about it without mentioning that Romney claims he had nothing to do with the closing, even though he was signing SEC legal documents and recieving full compensation from Bain as CEO. That just doesn't compute with most people who would say love to take a year off to go work on the Olympics but would never be allowed a fully paid sabatical where they kept their job title and signed legal documents as if they were still in charge. Thats just a level of apparently unearned wealth and cavalier attitued towards the law that rubs most middle class people the wrong way. And then there is the issue of insurance, Romneycare in Mass that really does have a striking resemblance to Obamacare.

The ad anticipated the complaints and if anything was designed so the complaints would bring up again uncomfortable things about Romney to everyday working Americans.

[FKD19124]

ummmm......did I post that or did you read the post incorrectly.

Do you agree with Jerry19127's comment?

[Politburo]

ummmm......did I post that or did you read the post incorrectly.

You responded to my response to Jerry19127. Do you agree with his comment?

[FKD19124]

no I don't. The pics are arguments themselves.
I think the people griping about them are at a loss over them and can't argue back.

You responded to my response to Jerry19127. Do you agree with his comment?

[Politburo]

no I don't.

So you don't agree with the comment, and yet, based on your argument via pic, you assert that it the comment was "winning the argument".

Please explain how one can consider a position they disagree with to be "winning the argument".

[Zep]

Please explain how one can consider a position they disagree with to be "winning the argument".

Politburo, I'd like you to meet fkd.

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[JoeBaker]

No. I'd really like to see him intelligently defend his own positions and lay out, point by point, what he has done for the country. Reverting to smear tactics just makes me not trust his track record. His record should be his strongest case, which is why he needs to be running on that. If he's not, then it just makes me think he isn't confident his own record is good enough to run on for reelection.

There's a reason Barry is not running on his record. He doesn't have one. And if he does, it blows.

Why aren't any of his campaign ads tooting the Obamacare horn? It's because no one but Obama actually wanted it.

What happened to that "Julia" girl? A chick receiving lifetime handouts from the government. Where'd she go? What an insult to women that was.

GM is alive and bin Laden is dead. I don't hear that anymore either. Why? Because people finally found out that Obama did not save GM. He saved the UAW. And the Volt loses $40k per unit. That's a helluva way to do business. Government Motors indeed. Well done. Then a few weeks ago tens of thousands of nitwits stormed our ME embassies chanting "we are bin Laden". I doubt Dopey Joe will be using that line anymore.

Where's Joe Soptic and his wife Romney killed and the Obama campaign not knowing the guy? Oh, it was all a lie. They all got caught red-handed having a conference call with the guy.

Run on his record. Ha. Even Obama isn't stupid enough to do that. How can anyone seriously consider voting for this guy. Mind boggling.

[seand]

The meat of "Obamacare" takes place in 2014. Whether you are waiting to dismantle it, just want to fine tune it or think its the best thing since sliced bread Romney has said he supports every single aspect of whats been implemented so far, then said he didn't and then said he supports those aspects already in play and would not touch them all in the last six months. So basically he wants to appeal to every voter on this issue by taking every position. Thats a campaign strategy that only works for so long.

[Litter Box]

The meat of "Obamacare" takes place in 2014. Whether you are waiting to dismantle it, just want to fine tune it or think its the best thing since sliced bread Romney has said he supports every single aspect of whats been implemented so far, then said he didn't and then said he supports those aspects already in play and would not touch them all in the last six months. So basically he wants to appeal to every voter on this issue by taking every position. Thats a campaign strategy that only works for so long.

....... and here is how he is going to do it !