Republicans: Obama is 'more of the same'

[JonLP24]

Source: Boston.com

For months now, Democrats have been trying to use President Bush as an albatross around John McCain's neck, saying he only offers more of the same.

Now, Republicans are trying to turn the tables, linking Obama to the even more unpopular Congress.

A new web video out today from the Republican National Committee frames Obama with Democratic congressional leaders and paints them as tax-and-spend liberals, warning that together they would raise taxes and they all oppose more offshore oil drilling.

"Take away the celebrity, the thrilling moments. What's left? Old ideas masquerading as change," the announcer says.
"It's not change, it's more of the same."




Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/09/republicans_oba.html

[Bob Dobbs]

1. The mcsame psychotic projection campaign.

Mind numbing insanity from the republic party.

[bdamomma]

23. they are more of a cult than anything else.

they are a cult.

[Triana]

2. FACT: Obama supported more offshore drilling and he will LOWER TAXES for

95% of Americans.

Duh.

Do Republicans/Undecideds READ?

[DJ13]

3. Up=Down ....... In=Out ...... McCain=Change

:rofl:

[BattyDem]

4. "It's not change, it's more of the same."

Didn't we hear every Dem say that line during last week's convention?

How can the GOP come up with fresh ideas that will change the country when they can't even come up with fresh ideas for a slogan? :eyes:

[kwolf68]

5. It was part of Biden's speech

In fact the crowd was chanting back "more of the same".

This move will be viewed as hilarious only if properly covered, but it wont be

[BattyDem]

6. Obama or the DNC should cover it in a new ad

Show the GOP ripping off their slogan and say, "If they can't come up with fresh ideas for their campaign, how will they come up with fresh ideas for our country?" :evilgrin:

[kwolf68]

18. Great point

Someone on our team has to be thinking of a great way to handle this.

Trouble is I think it takes Obama's a good deal of time just to pick themselves up off the floor from maniacal laughter just to formulate a gameplan.

I'll be watching for OB's next play on this.

[bdamomma]

24. and watch how they parrot that over and over again

to benefit themselves. liars cheaters and stealers.

[Warren Stupidity]

7. Fact: after six years of controlling the congress and the white house

our government was awash in a sea of debt, bogged down in an endless war started for no good reason, and mired in scandal after scandal.

Fact: republicans took control of congress and the white house with a budget surplus, a deficit under control, and a nation at peace, thanks to the bipartisan efforts of the Clinton adminstration to clean up the budget disaster left by 12 years of Reagan-Bush misrule.

Fact: republican senators and the president have obstructed all efforts by the democratic congress to begin the job of cleaning up the mess made by the administration and the republican controlled congress over the previous six years, while the white house obstructed all investigations into wrong doing in the Bush administration.

Fact: John McCain has been part of the problem for the last 26 years. He is not an outsider. He is not a maverick.

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Deleted by poster.

[torbird]

9. Any original ideas left?

Is McCain just going to repeat everything Obama and Biden say?

Pete/Repeat '08!

[amber_86]

10. New in DU

That video is wacky. They act like the Congressmen are the ones, which is not true because all the bills have to go to Bush to get vote on. The congressmen veto on those bills and Bush vote on them.

[Turbineguy]

31. Welcome to DU!

[izquierdista]

11. I have to admit

National health care is an old idea. Older than Clinton's effort in 1993. Older than Johnson's medicare proposals of the 1960's. It goes back to Harry Truman and the post WWII idea that health care should be a right and not a privilege for those who could afford it.

I could go for "more of the same", except that I never got a serving of national health care in the first place.

[verges]

16. Actually,

I believe Teddy Roosevelt was the first President to ever suggest it.

[sinkingfeeling]

12. We just need to point out that 'tax-and-spend liberals' just can't keep up with the GOP's

fiscal conservatives' bankrupting of the nation. Who added almost $5 trillion to the national debt in 8 years?

[MrsBrady]

13. um....McCain has been in Congress for amost 30 years....um...

HE'S apart of it's ummm....sameness.

uhhh, yea. Oh that's right. McCain is a Senator...oh ok.

oh never mind

:sarcasm:

[tomg]

14. I think I recall this strategy from somewhere else.

Oh, right - the fucking third grade:

"I'm rubber and you're glue. Anything you say bounces off me and sticks to you."

[tomg]

15. dupe: self-delete

[liberal N proud]

17. It's not that easy to steal the opponents theme, you have to prove it.

Must have been distributing Limbaugh's drugs at the convention

[Auggie]

19. PLAGIARIST BASTARDS!

[apnu]

20. LOSERS!

All they can do is copy Obama's campaign? Really?

And so, should the win the White House, who are they going to crib from?

Wow, not only do they have no new ideas, they have no ideas at all.

Shameless.

[Vinca]

21. Doesn't the Republican Party have any imagination at all?

Are they so broke they just wait for the Obama campaign to speak and then copy it? Idiots.

[bdamomma]

22. oh these people are so filthy

we have to hit back.

[Tempest]

25. The Repugs haven't a clue about Congress

The reason for Congress' low approval rating is because they didn't do what they promised and Democrats are pissed.

If they would take action against Bush, Congress' approval rating would shoot over 60%.

[Roland99]

26. Sooooo...oil drilling is this election's gay marriage (wedge issue)

:eyes:

[truthisfreedom]

27. Wrapping themselves in Obama's phrases, his campaign slogans, and his message...

If you can't beat 'em, co-opt 'em.

[Democrats_win]

28. 72 Republican fillibusters. More of the same mcCain?

[stillcool]

29. so original...

[bamacrat]

30. Yes becasue one man in a 500 plus seat Congress is indicative of how that one man will be.

Isnt John McCain a member of this Congress? While led by the dems, people are upset with Congress as a whole not just congressional dems. Also one man has the power to make a difference and he has failed, and John McCain champions this one mans failure.

[krkaufman]

32. They're so bereft of ideas and talent that they can't even come up with their own campaign strategy.

If McCain wanted to run under Obama's theme, he should've asked to be Obama's VP.