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When I said it yesterday, I was thinking in the back of my mind, no, they won’t actually go there. However, not only did they, they didn’t waste any time. On MSNBC today Brad Blakeman criticized Barack Obama for flying on his campaign plane to visit his ailing grandmother. All I can say is wow.
Blakeman tried to equate it to the $150,000 the McCain campaign spent on clothes for Sarah Pailin. I’ll try to be fair, is it completely above board for him to have flown on the campaign plane? Maybe, maybe not. Is this a stupid line of attack for the republicans to take. Absoloutely. I guess that’s why some strategist no one outside the media has ever heard of was tasked with saying it, in case it sounds stupid (Yah think?).
It was pointed out on Countdown that if a democrat had said the same thing about McCain visiting his mother then the republican outrage would be heard far and wide, it would dominate cable news for 8 days. I agree, Bill O’reilly’s head would explode in a fit of fake outrage.
My question is: is McCain even trying to win anymore? Huffington Post has the clip here.
Barack Hussein Obama…yeah, that guy’s different. He’s an arab or something. No, no way I would vote for him.
B. Hussein Obama, followed moments later by the professation that “What? It’s his middle name.” So which is more galling: the use of Barack Obama’s middle name to mark him as “not one of us” or the fact that they person who just said his name is such a coward that they don’t have the balls to come out and say that is what they are doing. How much of a weasel do you have to be?
I suppose it’s a testament to how much this thinking has been marginalized that not only do racists such as these have to hide in the shadows, disguising their intent with indirection. It’s also a testament to how far we’ve come as a society that it isn’t working. Despite what the McCain campaign thinks, 10 point leads on polls that traditionally skew right is not within the margin of error.
Yes we can.
John McCain’s campaign seems to be run by drunken lemurs. That of course is just speculation by an ameteur and I get all my news from Keith Olbermann, John Stewart, and Fark.com. However, it lurches from tactic to tactic, never sticking with one for very long. Even when they stick with one, hurling negative attacks, they jump from attack (Ayers) to attack (ACORN) and I swear they are just trying to get Obama to respond in a way that they can put it in an ad next week. It wouldn’t surprise me if some surrogate this weekend says something about Obama taking a couple days off to spend with his grandmother. McCain won’t say it and neither will Pailin but just someone will and then they’ll use whatever Obama says back against him.
But it won’t work. Obama is not the sort of guy who takes the bait. He hasn’t risen to any baiting so far that I know. He just remains resolute and dare I say it, Presidential. He by all appearances wants to lead, not get down in the mud and scrap. So GoBama!
I think it comes down to being a black man trying to suceed in a white world. I remember reading about Jackie Robinson when I was a kid. I remember the part where Branch Rickey told him that he would not be able to respond the way he wants to to people trying to get a rise out of him. Jackie Robinson had to be above it all or he would never make it. They say both women and African Americans have to be twice as good as the next guy. Obama went to Colombia, he went to Harvard Law and was the first African American to edit the Harvard Law Review, and now he is the first African American nominated by a major party in the presidential election. I think he knows a thing or two about being twice as good and leaving his ego at the door. He is certainly not going to let some cranky old man who thinks it’s his turn to be president ruin this run. McCain however, seems to be trying real hard to provoke a man just so he can bring him down.