This morning I listened to the FOX News Sunday Barack Obama interview.  As I listened to Obama's slick answers to Chris Wallace's tough questions, I have come to the conclusion that Republicans cannot run the typical campaign we have run against left wing liberals, primarily because of his communication skills.

Here is where I think he is vulnerable...

This morning and over the past several months he has campaign against making the Bush tax cuts permanent and against keeping the capital gains tax at its current rate.  He characterizes these tax cuts as tax cuts for the wealthy.  However, those paying these taxes are not the super rich, but are entrepreneurs & business people who have a good preceding year and then are penalized to the point where they cut jobs or raise prices in order to survive the consequence of their good year.  The other group that falls into this tax bracket is celebrities and pro-athletes who if they don't manage their money well will find themselves penalized by the IRS & Franchise Tax Board for their talents.  The super rich protect their wealth in private foundations and charitable trusts, where their homes, their clothing, their food, and their transportation are paid for by the foundations they control either directly or through trusted intermediaries.  And these private foundations and charitable trusts are protected by the same laws that protect churches, the Red Cross, and the Salvation Army, as well as other charities that actually help our communities.  They also protect their wealth offshore in investments that only the super rich can afford to invest. Remember what Thomas Jefferson once said, "Nothing is as portable as money or rich people".  This is because laws cannot be made retro-active according to Supreme Court precedent and laws take time to go into effect, they are not put into effect immediately. Policies have consequences.

In Iraq, Obama has skated by with fuzzying up his rhetoric as the situation in Iraq has improved on the ground.  John McCain must stressed both the political and military progress that has been made in Iraq that the media is failing to cover and make the suggestion that because Obama has gone from pulling the troops out immediately to his comments about needing to take at least 14 months to pull the troops out to his comments this morning where he said he will listen to General Petreaus on how best to pull out the troops.  This fuzzying up suggests that with the War in Iraq that Barack Obama has been a bit disingenuous on the war.

Last but not least McCain needs to bring out that on the Atheist/Leftist vs. Christian/conservative culture contests that he will be a protector of 1st Amendment Religious, Speech, & Association Freedoms, while Obama has consistently on vote after vote sided with the Atheists and Leftists who have been the primary attackers of these freedoms by trying to change the definitions of words in the original documents.

This is where I believe Obama is vulnerable and where pointing out his proclivity to fuzzy up his rhetoric could be to John McCain's advantage.