While I have criticized Barack Obama a few times here on my little patch of Internet, let's have some fun here and defend the guy.  Because the McPaign has made a criticism that while correct in many of Obama's statements is not apt for the discussion at hand.

The truth about the Obama campaign is that it lacks in details.  We're seeing pockets of people turned off to Barack as we approach November and the guy has to start fleshing out a few of his plans for "change".  In reality the guy can only get more appealing as he starts to do this, he's the solid choice for Demo candidate so liberals are stuck with the guy.  He can only benefit by becoming more of a centrist and picking up the independents that will sway the national election solidly in his favor.  I mean, is he really going to alienate democratic donkeys so much that they haul off and vote for McCain?  Probably not, especially if McCain wants to keep his country club membership.

McCain has decided to run on a few Republican ideals, one of which is to keep the country in Iraq.  Barack could probably come out and say he's pro-Iraq too and still keep Democrats on his side, hell-it'd probably earn him more votes than it'll lose him.  The guy would have to worship Satan or Allah or something before he'd have to legitimately worry about turning Democrats to Election '08 McCain.  McCain would need to whip out some of that four years ago rhetoric (or maybe adopt Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter) before he can he can swing some blues his way.

The targets for both candidates are the independent voters, who as always (meaning like twice before this) will decide the race.  The main goal of each candidate (more McCain thus far-but ideally Obama is going to start doing this too-right?) is to make the other guy look questionable to independents.

The McPaign did this today when it denounced Barack Obama's proposed  $6 billion per year tax credits to small businesses with health care plans (doing this while conceding that Clinton had led the way in health care-which is true if you discount Edwards, which you probably can) as vague. 

I mean, what more could we really expect the guy (Obama) to do in this situation?  He gave us a dollar figure for how much the annual tax credit would be and justified its necessity.  Then he gave a rough draft on how the money would be raised and even a little bit of insight on future health policy under his administration.  I mean, no-he didn't detail everything about it, he gave a plan and an outline.  That's really anyone needs to do during a campaign.

I suppose Barack could've broken out the power point and given us a fancy presentation, but statistics have never won a presidency!  Ask Al Gore (or Jimmy Carter)!

Campaigners on the McCain side are just a little too eager to pull the trigger on Barack's tendency to talk a long time about nothing and if they chillax and let the elections go on a few more three months with change then he will slip up and they can embarrass him.  If they keep shoddily using the line in these less than spectacular examples of Obamaisms then they're just going to desensitize us to their point and turn what could be a "Great Moment in Election History" into a side note on the elections or an unsatisfying "I told ya so..." akin to what Gore probably experienced 4-5 months into the Iraq War. 

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