Barack Obama has to hit back against John McCain, because if he doesn’t, he appears weak, but the truth is, Obama’s always been right - it’s about the issues, and particularly the economy, stupid. Not just focusing on the negative.
Obama has released some great anti-Obama ads in the last few days, but I would suggest that the team not just focus on the negative ads, but to put out an even ratio. If you put out an ad about McCain being dishonorable, you also put out an ad that talks about Obama’s plans for the economy, how he will get things working again, how he has ideas to grow the middle class.
Both at the same time. This is the very thing the McCain campaign has been doing - they don’t rely on just one ad, they rely on two types, and this allows them to get a message across while also hitting their opponent where their opponent can be hit. Even if it’s with erroneous claims of sexism and disrespect.
This election is about REVOLUTION. About changing America - not on the small scale, but on the large scale. About helping the American people see that there is flow to the Government of the Republicans, and the way it works, and how it doesn’t change, it doesn’t differ, no matter which person sits in the Oval Office. It’s the world of big business, of tax breaks for the rich, of the belief-that-no-one-really-believes that if you give the rich a significant amount of money, why, their crumbs will fall into the gaping, open mouths of the middle and lower classes in America.
Obama, you’ve got to do both here. Your message of HOPE and CHANGE has resonated for over a year, and has made you a phenom, and the worst thing that McCain can do to you is have you abandon that message. He wants you to, they want you to become negative full-time, to be in reaction mode constantly. You can’t do that. You have to attack him and then attack the current situation in America with HOPE and CHANGE and yes, REVOLUTION.
Because that’s where we’re at, Obama. We’re at that point where America needs more than a little nugget of change, where we don’t simple steer our rudder to the left a little bit. We need to make a full-course change, head in the exact opposite direction we’ve been going, and rebuild America from the ground up.
You get this concept - the ground up to make America better - way of governing. You’ve got to hit this message loud, clear, and let people know it’s their REVOLUTION. The CHANGE is them, not you, and it’s never been about you. You’re our Ambassador of Change, our Duke of Revolution, but you’re not going to do it alone, and you never will be able to. You get this, but sometimes you have to remind the American populace that you get it.
So keep fighting back, please, but don’t lose your core message. Don’t let John McCain destroy what all of us have built. Keep being optimistic, keep being wide-eyed.
Now that the Leman Brothers et al. situation has happened, don’t let this make your brow furrow and your scowl come out. No, instead, let this be the moment that you seize on our desire to make it better, not wallow in the sorrow of a crashing economy. Remind us all that we can change this, that this isn’t how it has to be, we only need to move forward and trust in our leaders who do have our best interests at heart.
Keep it optimistic, Barack Obama. And you’ll win this thing.
John McCain and his campaign have decided to wrestle the mantle of Change from the Obama campaign.
So the question is - what do we do? What do we, those of us who pushed change for months, who made the concept of change strong, and powerful, and so very clearly inevitable, do to grab our fire back?
It’s simple. We differentiate. Because if what McCain is offering is “change”, do we really want to be associated with that? Do we want our movement to really be swirled in with the muck and gunk of the Republican party platform that’s lead us to be hated around the world? Despised by our allies and enemies alike. The party that’s destroyed our economy, who has stretched our military so thin, made our dollar and strength dissipate so far that we can no longer stand up to countries like Bolivia or Venezuela.
McCain augmented the concept of change with a word - a word that had some cache associated with it - and was a great marketing ploy: reform
But reform just means to change things slightly. To keep things the same, but make a few modifications. Is that what we want? Is that what we want our agent, our ambassador Barack Obama, to bring to Washington? That sort of mindset? No, we want more. And the words change and reform are too weak.
What we want, what we need, what we desire is something more powerful. Something that’s been coming a long time. Something that is necessary for America to turn the corner into the future, and turn back the tide of the massive the wealth transfer to China, Russia and the Middle East, leaving our own workers and our own country in the gutter.
We demand REVOLUTION.
Let that sink in for a second, let it grow on you. I’ll wait.
Done? Good. Because we don’t have a lot of time to waste. There’s more to this whole thing than just some election, some “silly” game as Barack Obama has called it. What’s going on here is the absolute fate of our great nation, and we’re facing a ruling class that doesn’t care about the people. No longer is America a country “For the People and By the People” as it was originally established. Instead it’s a country where the people work to make the corporations stronger, even as they take our jobs away, remove our manufacturing, squash ingenuity in the small business sector, and stifle the innovation that’s always made America that shining beacon just over the horizon.
We need REVOLUTION.
Not the kind where we raise up arms against our brothers. Our country is stable, strong, and though recent information may be hinting at fraudulent voter practices rearing their ugly heads once again, our peaceful nation can enact a revolution using nothing more than a chad pushed all the way through a piece of paper. Because if enough of us want it, if enough of us push and strive for it, if enough of us hit the pavement and demand it, no amount of voter fraud or slanderous ads full of lies and deceit will be able to stop the the coming maelstrom.
Our upcoming election is larger than one issue. Or two issues. Or even a dozen issues. It’s about every issue, every facet of our lives, every person in our country, and the roads we’re going down. We have an American spirit, a love for freedom that goes beyond anything the world can imagine. We rose against the British when it seemed impossible. We fought our own brothers over land and slavery when it was necessary for true change to take place.
Revolution is nothing new for America. Revolution is America. Barack Obama, I ask you to take on this mantle of Revolution. To send a message to the cheap seats, the high dollar seats, the valleys, the mountains, the suburbs, the urban areas, and the farms of America.
If you’re unhappy with your lot in life, you must embrace someone who will act on your behalf. Who will work to be your agent of change. Who will be your Ambassador of Revolution.
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