By: Frederick Cosby
Oh, it’s on now.
With Republican presidential nominee John McCain going more negative against his Democratic rival Barack Obama, tonight’s presidential debate in Nashville and the closing days leading to the Nov. 4 election will have no shortage of mud being hurled by both campaigns.
Call it Campaign 2008’s version of playing the dozens.
With the economic crisis dragging his poll numbers down to where Obama is leading in previously solid-Republican stronghold of North Carolina and trailing by only single digits in President George W. Bush’s Texas, McCain’s brain trust indicated over the weekend that they want to flip the script of the election from the sour economy to a referendum on Obama’s character and personality.
Tuesday night, before a national television audience of millions, McCain will try to paint Obama as arrogant, dangerous, reckless, naive and unpatriotic. Obama, in turn, will try to tag McCain as erratic, angry and a political carbon copy of Bush.
“This is all about political warfare. All the weapons in the arsenal will be coming out within the next 29 days,” Kenn Venit, a Connecticut-based media consultant, told McClatchy Newspapers Monday. “The race card, the money card -- all cards are in play.”
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