The China Syndrome
from DipPolitics added 25 April, 2008 at 12:09 PM
Halle-freaking-lujah. “Bitter-gate,” the largely manufactured outrage over Barack Obama’s comments about small town (natch working class) voters and their interests, seems to have run its inevitable course. After a few weeks of whining and complaining, the mainstream media and the Clinton campaign seem to have backed off that particular line of attack line.
Why? Because it didn’t work.
Thank God. I was really getting tired of this particular chapter in the campaign. Everyone (with half a brain) knew what Obama meant when he said that small town Americans were “bitter,” and that many of those people cling to “God and guns” to deal with the stresses and strains of modern life.
My question is this: What’s the next line of attack? Because we know something’s coming.
So does Obama. As he told ABC News’ Sunlen Miller, “You know, over the last several weeks since she fell behind, she’s resorted to what’s called ‘kitchen sink’ strategies. She’s got the kitchen sink flying, and the china flying, and the, you know, the buffet is coming at me.”
Bud, trust me: She’ll throw the whole freaking house at you before all is said and done. The entire building — if she can get her hands on a crane. Luckily, the Obama campaign is creating a rapid response team to deal with future Swift-boating from all those opposed to his candidacy. On their agenda to combat: Obama’s ties to 60s radical Bill Ayers and developer Antoin Rezko, among others.
In this day and age, you’ve got to create that kind of staff before you start campaigning but that’s a whole other story. Still, I’m glad that Team Obama has finally realized that they have to be aggressive about deflecting incoming china. An annoying task, but crucial in today’s blood sport of politics.
I, for one, speculate that the china will continue to be hurled right up until the second that Obama takes the stage in Denver. And a glance inside their playbook might look something like this:
-Street artist and Obama supporter Shepard Fairey used red to color his sad little poster for Obama’s campaign. Did Obama sign off on the use of that color? If so, we should look into that, because it’s a clear nod to Mao lovers and misguided Che fans everywhere.
-The bowling video suggests that Obama is not a “bowler.” Wink wink. Hopefully, he’s gay. Keep looking.
-Obama spent a few years at Occidental College in Eagle Rock, CA. An area not too far from gang-controlled territory. Not inconceivable that Obama stood in a taco truck line with a Cypress Park “gangsta.” If so, did they talk? And about what? Investigating…
The McCain folk are in on the china throwing as well. His deputy campaign manager emailed donors about the fact that the chief political adviser to the Hamas Prime Minister supports Obama and added, “We need change in America, but not the kind of change that wins kind words from Hamas, surrenders in Iraq and will hold unconditional talks with Iranian President Ahmadinejad.”
What do you think? I’d say that was both a salad plate and a saucer.
brendan-smith
wrote 1 year and 6 months ago
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