Running against Palin, not too well so far
This AP story indicates that the Obama campaign is spending a lot of time running against that mayor from a small town so far away:
Obama puts heat on Palin — Listening to Barack Obama, it can seem like Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is the main person standing between him and the White House instead of John McCain. Obama is putting as much heat on Palin as he is on the man at the top of the GOP ticket…
“Mother, governor, moose shooter. That’s cool…When John McCain gets up there with Sarah Palin and says, `We’re for change,’…what are they talking about?…It was just like a month ago they were all saying, `Oh, it’s experience, experience, experience.’ Then they chose Palin and they started talking about change, change, change…
A bunch of heat started generating because people were thinking, `Why are we building a bridge to nowhere?’…So a deal was cut where Alaska still got the money. They just didn’t build a bridge with it, and now she’s out there acting like she was fighting this thing the whole time…I mean, you can’t just make stuff up. You can’t just re-create yourself. You can’t just reinvent yourself. The American people aren’t stupid. What they are looking for is someone who has consistently been calling for change.”
Perhaps this is a smart strategy for the Senator Obama, but running against the GOP’s VP candidate has many problems: lowering his status, accentuating the parallelism between Palin’s and Obama’s experience, and — for goodness sakes, look at the unpresidential language the candidate is using in doing so. (Camille Paglia has also noticed Senator Obama’s poor language choices of late.)
The Obama campaign should have learned from the Clinton campaign that running against a phenomenon cannot be about pointing to the clay feet of the deity. Amusing ridicule, done at the appropriate moment, is far more effective.
The Democratic presidential campaign was and is totally unprepared for Sarah Palin. Listen to Air America for ten minutes if you don’t believe us. This comment, apparently about Governor Palin, by Senator Obama says that the campaign appears to be, at least at the moment, somewhat unhinged: “You Can Put Lipstick on a Pig, It’s Still a Pig…You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink.”
My, my. Stinking fish and lipsticked pigs. One wonders what Sigmund Freud would have thought about the meaning of such statements from the Democratic candidate for President.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:56 am
Scratch a Lib and you get a pretty disgusting person.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
“I mean, you can’t just make stuff up. You can’t just re-create yourself. You can’t just reinvent yourself. The American people aren’t stupid.”
Tell it to your friends from Indonesia, who knew you as a Muslim. Tell it to your pastor, who knew you as a long-time member of a Black Nationalist and racist church. Tell it to Saul Alinsky’s disciples, who hired you as a Marxist agitator (aka “community organizer”). Tell it to your grandmother, who loved you and raised you before you discovered her as a “typical white person”, and threw her under the bus.
Apparently you CAN just re-create yourself, and enough of the American people (those known as “Democrats”) are stupid enough to buy it.