Talk about bait and switch. Pontificate about the politics of hope then when you lose a debate in the last days before a holiday decide that Daley style Chicago politics is the only way you can win, because your ideas just weren’t closing the deal.
This is all over cable today, but up front and center on Fox “News.”
“… Whether there is any such scandalous information, I don’t know.
… … .. That’s Senator Obama’s only hope is to portray Senator
Clinton as a manipulative almost Nixonian type of candidate who will do anything
to win and can’t be trusted. Obviously, Sen. Obama is in a difficult position.
He must win in Iowa. The Iowa caucus goers might be put off by any kind of
allegation of dirty tricks on the part of the Clinton campaign.”
– Robert Novak
Novak’s source is a Democratic big shot, who was told by “a Clinton agent”
that there’s dirt out there about Obama.
So I ask you, who is manipulating headlines and using “Nixonian type”
campaigning? Parroting Robert Novak is as desperate as you can get.
Why the need to defend? Well, to put it bluntly, Novak’s Saturday column
has been ridiculed as – among the more noteworthy descriptions — “shamelessly
unethical” and “unconfirmed
crap,” for naming no names and containing no tangible information.
So, to clear up the facts and keep his name in the news cycle, Novak went
on Fox News this morning.Novak
Admits Smear Column Is Even Weaker Than It First Appeared
Hey, but just because Novak served up “shamelessly unethical” and
“unconfirmed crap” doesn’t mean Mr. Obama should use it, right?
Oh, and if you’re wondering why I’m targeting Mr. Obama right now it’s because
his latest stunts are worthy of lambasting. Any Democrat using wingnuts to attack
a fellow Democrat raises my suspicions. It further convinces me that Mr. Obama
and his team have no dividing line and no party or Democratic policy loyalties (see Social Security), but only want to
win as well as use Republican talking points to do it. It’s further evidence
that he will govern like a Joe Lieberman Democrat in the White House, to put
it bluntly, seeing no party delineation at all, but preferring to bring anyone
to his side he can, regardless of whether they will stab him in the back at the first oppportunity, not to mention make us compromise on policies we believe in strongly.
Obama’s latest behavior is not the politics of change, or making the case on ideas,
in case anyone is paying attention. It’s the old school politics of Chicago,
with a little Lyndon Baynes Johnson rolled into it. A friend over the weekend reminded me of an oldie but goodie (that I can’t believe I forgot!). Flashback:
And his sense of the bizarre knows no bounds, as in this ‘ancient and honourable’
story of how Lyndon Johnson first got elected to Congress in 1948 when his
opponent was a wealthy and politically favoured pig farmer: ‘Lyndon was running
about 10 points behind, with only nine days to go… He was sunk in despair.
He was desperate… he called his equally depressed campaign manager and instructed
him to call a press conference at two or two-thirty ( just after lunch on
a slow news day) and accuse his high-riding opponent (the pig farmer) of having
routine carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows, despite the pleas of his wife
and children… His campaign manager was shocked. ‘We can’t say that, Lyndon,’
he said. ‘It’s not true.’ ‘Of course it’s not,’ Johnson barked at him, ‘but
let’s make the bastard deny it.’
Obama’s campaign has turned into a lesson on how
to turn off independent single women, who hate negative advertising more
than anything, not to mention turn the Democrats into a laughing stock, with
a lead candidate willing to disgust voters in an election that is ours to lose.
Everyone gather ’round. Circular firing squad ready? Shoot.
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