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OBAMA CAMPAIGN ISSUES TALKING POINTS TO MEDIA AHEAD OF DEBATE

word for word.

The media can help you--if, say, you're an Obama or Bush supporter--but it can cause havoc as well--when it comes to war and bailout bills and 9/11 hysteria. I try to ask questions about the consequences of our actions beyond this election, but it inevitably turns to Obama, when the consequences are likely to be more far reaching.

"... Mr. Obama, whose political advantages have expanded since the debating began late last month in Mississippi, is aiming to hold his position in the race. He is not expected to offer any new policy proposals, advisers said, or say anything he hasn’t already addressed. ..." -- http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/obama-debate-prep-style-over-substance-for-tonight/

From Frontline on Obama's astonishingly quick rise to power:

Yeah, politics is so much about timing, luck. It's like life. He was the right guy at the right time. And in this era, especially with media -- I mean, his power in the media has been enormous. They have controlled the media. They have been able to sell this candidate through the media in amazing fashion, and his people have understood that. His sense of power hasn't been, certainly, through his legislative work, but it's a force of personality. It's a force of biography, and it's a force of how the media has given him so much attention and bestowed so much power on him.

I can't help but be deeply suspicious of a man who when he wins, wins so damn easily. Amazing "luck" isn't it?

Also, I love how the show didn't focus on the fact that in spite of every possible advantage, including bigotry and his Oh, So Amazing! personality, the DNC still had to rig it for him. The media and the DNC may have been absolutely desperate to have Obama, but the people chose another, especially in the big and battleground GE states where Lady Lucifer won all (exception: IL and MO where she lost by a hair).

I am sure that folks at home are equating "game changer" with how to keep control of the remote control.

The only game changer I can see is if Americans dump the old paradigm of feeling sorry for everyone else while making sure that they are at the top no matter who gets fubared. Obama fills the role for them perfectly, someone they can feel sorry for and also feel as if he will fuck over others in order for them to get to the top.

It also gives folks a feeling of smug self righteous satisfaction. Sums up the US and pretty much is why the US will not last as a top power worldwide. Masochism is great in the bedroom but it pretty much sucks when we are the masochists in worldwide politics.

http://www.correntewire.com/ye_olde_writ... fiction link

It's a twist on your model but thought you might find it amusing as the question is actually posed with the "game changer" terminology: http://hotair.com/archives/2008/10/16/final-debate-game-changer/