re: #265 Dark_Falcon

The smear campaign against Kerry worked wonderfully well in 2004, since Kerry was the kind of guy nobody really liked, even those who supported his politics and his party.

Obama had a sort of opposite effect, aside from a minority of rabid racists, a lot of people admired Obama as a nice guys, as someone who really did embody the American dream.

But since many of those mouth-breathers controlled policy making in the GOP, they did not think to change tactics. The smear tactcs bounced off him like the old rubber-and-glue analogy.