A Woman In the Way of Obama’s Attack on McCain

The final showdown has come in the month of August – the month in which the master guidelines of each candidate’s campaign strategy and the formation of the first and second-string teams that each would establish in the White House if he were to achieve victory – are in play.

At the same time, George W. Bush’s star is setting. This was demonstrated graphically in the late-night news coverage of June: Barack Obama appeared in 690 new pieces, John McCain in 263, and George W. Bush in 113. In his first seven years in office, in contrast, the president dominated 60% of the world’s media. The facts speak eloquently, as they demonstrate Bush’s inability to influence in a tough moment of the campaign.

Following the success of his international tour, as reported in El Semenal Digital, Obama returned, curiously, to encounter, in a woman, his potentially most dangerous rival. Carly Fiorina, the former chairperson of the board of the computer-maker Hewlett-Packard and McCain’s right hand on the economy, which is his weak spot.

Despite the fact that both Obama and McCain have emphasized three key foreign-affairs issues for the U.S. — confronting Islamic terrorism in Afghanistan, quelling the conflagration in Iraq, and coming together to stop the ayatollahs’ atomic bomb – the economy has returned to the forefront. McCain does not forget that in 1992, following the First Gulf War, Bill Clinton defeated Bush senior because the war was the issue that was most troubling to voters.

Today Latinos – who, I insist, hold the key to the final result – are going to be watching very closely to see how each candidate positions himself with regard to the magnitude of the crisis, and his related proposals.