Sunday, August 03, 2008

What about Your supporters?

So, the blessed one has deigned to absolve McCain of the charge of racism with dumb and dumber ad. But wait. Obama never accused McCain of racism or dirty campaigning, just the people around him. That is why Obama made the painful decision to not take public financing. He had to have the extra funds in order to fend off the low attacks from McCain's friends. If we are holding our opponents responsible for the words and actions of their friends and supporters (and we seem to do little else these days) shouldn't Obama have to call off his friends? The bloggoshere if full of Obama-ites complaining about McCain's cleaver use of the race card. Isn't it incumbent on Obama to denounce them or be considered as having the same views?

Instead, he says of McCain's campaign:

"I think they're cynical," he said. "And I think they want to distract people from talking about the real issues."
But surely, the Obama campaign's lack of substance is a legitimate issue?
If Obama has conceded that the ad isn't racist then doesn't he have to accept that the ad's point is what the McCain camp says it is? An attempt to argue that the Obama campaign is a series of empty platitudes and breathlessly related biographic details about the candidate himself. A man who has written not one piece of important legislation but has found time to write his auto biography twice before the age of 50 perhaps should not be surprised that people are questioning his substance. How many times did he think he could get away with starring significantly into his teleprompter and telling us that "this is the moment" for "change we can believe in" and "I have always said that.....," just before going on to explain why the position that appears diametrically opposed to the one he had been espousing just a few minutes ago is really no different from the one he is embracing now. denouncing n eomr ot the emn

No comments: