Posted by
Mike Silverman on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:47:17 AM
A lot of fur is flying over Obama's recent comment "You can put lipstick on a pig, It's still a pig.", in his metaphor for the McCain campaign's claim about reforming DC. Sure.., it can easily be taken as an attack on Governor Palin. But that's the easy knee-jerk way to take it. It's joining Obama on the low road to demand an apology for the words, and it accepts the premise that we must only allow politically correct speech as defined by liberals. What needs to be pointed out in this is that Barack Obama has dispensed with his high level rhetoric once and for all, and proven that he is "NOT" articulate when he's backed into a corner. He's desperate, lashing out with low brow metaphors. Now if Obama was thinking... he would have realized that this would be misinterpreted as an attack on Palin by a significant number of people. He was not thinking and it was evident. What we need to do is just point out how he's jumped feet-first into the mud of attack politics, hipocritically ignoring his own vow to keep above the fray, to run a different kind of campagin without negativity. In his own words, on Obama's own campaign web site he states the following... "They said we wouldn't have a chance in this campaign unless we resorted to the same old negative attacks. But we resisted, even when we were written off, and ran a positive campaign that pointed out real differences and rejected the politics of slash and burn." . Obama has thrown his own words out the window, putting the lie to his so-called positive campaign. What does this mean? It means that McCain's rising success has Obama rattled like a loose pencil in a tin box and now that he percieves that he actually might not win this.., all bets are off and the claws and the mud are being brought out. Is this the "change" Obama claims to be bringing to DC? There's nothing new about Obama's brand of politics, and he proves it every day now.
- Mike Silverman, Milford MA