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Tomorrow's Right Wing Attack On Obama -- Today!
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Look, if I want to know what the next right-wing attack on Obama is going to be, I'll just wait for the next press release from the Clinton camp.
And it's a quid-pro-quo agreement. Just wait for the Clintons to accuse Obama of being too arrogant and lacking patriotism in 5...4...3...2...
February 25, 2008 11:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Um, let me guess, everything Hillary has been saying about Obama?
I guess we can add trying to label him as an anti-Semite to the likely list too:
http://thepersonalispolitical.tumblr.com/post/27246179
February 25, 2008 11:56 AM | Reply | Permalink
Who needs the GOP when you have HRC?
She's already doing the GOP's handywork for them for free. Witness the Willie Hortonesque race-baiting and fear-mongering.
February 25, 2008 11:57 AM | Reply | Permalink
5 points to billysunday for a perfect response.
Well done.
February 25, 2008 12:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's what happens when you let those black men think they can get ahead. They get all uppity.
It's not just the right-wing. The NYT is trying out this frame...
So cool to be so lionized; one might not guess that off stage Mr. Obama can act like an elusive starlet of late. When the press approaches, he rations words like gold.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/us/politics/24obama.html
February 25, 2008 12:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Remember NY Times endorsed Hillary Clinton for President. They're pro-Hillary.
February 25, 2008 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not sure this line of attack will work. People who have seen him speak, who have been energized by his message, will know differently. No one who has been to an Obama rally, or seen him speak at other events and during the debates, would see him as detached, effete, and patronizing. He's warm and charismatic, and he connects with people in a way that they haven't felt in a long time (the comparisons to Bobby Kennedy are not so far off). I think this is going to be a difficult line of attack to sustain.
February 25, 2008 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmm, the overwhelming thing I get about Obama's message is that without the rest of us, Americans, working for the change, he can do nothing. So in other words the total opposite.
The country needs us.
He needs us.
We needs us.
Also how many people wear those flag pins? I seriously never see them. And my House district has a PVI of R+6
PS: Comments section STILL screws me up.
February 25, 2008 12:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Look, if I want to know what the next right-wing attack on Obama is going to be, I'll just wait for the next press release from the Clinton camp."
AGREE. plus, McCain is busy with his own problems.
somehow we Democrats should be scared sh*tless with their dirty tricks? bring it on, Hillary or the right-wing,bring it on, I'm not afraid, anyone?
February 25, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm not as sanguine as Carol, but I do think they may be misreading the feeling from Obama's crowds. One thing I've heard people do at his events is chant U-S-A! U-S-A! And his rhetoric is pretty damn patriotic at times. So, it's possible he's inoculated himself against this attack.
February 25, 2008 12:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Preening, patronizing and haughty? Who does that better describe than Bill Kristol? Obama should immediately challenge Kristol to a little hoop one-on-one in the 'hood in Cleveland. The national press corps can watch. Let's see who the effete elitist is...
February 25, 2008 12:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
i realize that Josh Marshall doesn't read these comment sections (and probably neither does Eric or Greg beyond the first few), but i'd be interested to know if the tactics of the Clinton campaign over the past couple weeks has thrown him, or Greg, off of their tacit and not-so-tacit support of her?
February 25, 2008 12:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
You forget - John McCain is also seen without the famous FLAG PIN....during DEBATES.
The patriotism plan won't work.
Michelle's thesis will only prove to HELP Obama by showing minorities that you can start out feeling different, but you always have a chance of BEING somebody if you work hard enough.
Besides all that, it appears McCain's lobbyist problems aren't over yet.
February 25, 2008 12:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
And if the GOP main line against Obama is that he is unpatriotic (how tired is that?) in comparison to McCain as a war hero, then we've seen how much the war hero tag metters in recent elections:
- war hero GHW Bush loses to Bill Clinton (draft dodger)
- war hero Bob Dole loses to Bill Clinton
- war hero John Kerry loses to GW Bush (draft dodger)
And what ever happened to all those mini-American flags that everyone was flying on their windshields after 9-11? I guess we all just hate America.
February 25, 2008 12:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
And the day after tomorrow, it's Hillary's right-wing attack on Obama.
February 25, 2008 12:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
To confirm billysunday prediction, here it is, feeding a picture of Obama in somali garments to drudge. The worst of this, is that I don't think is gonna help her among democrats, but it is likely to hurt Obama against McCain. Shame on you Hillary, and this is for real.
February 25, 2008 12:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, I'll take my chances with Obama. The thing that is driving Clinton crazy, and what will drive McCain crazy in the general election, is that when most people hear Obama speak, they believe what he says. Kind of a novel concept. They feel like he is speaking to them in a way that makes sense and that they can understand. That kind of influence can not be easily "framed" away by Clinton or the GOP.
Whatever gets thrown at him, he can just stand up there calmly, cooly and say it's nonsense. Just another example of the status quo's fierce resistance to change.
February 25, 2008 12:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
According to a recent Daily Kos post, Mark Penn and Charlie Black both work for the same company. Any wonder this appears to be a coordinated attack from Hillary and McCain?
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/24/14518/2213/544/463202
February 25, 2008 1:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
They would have a hard time with the "elitist" angle, as well, because of the widely diverse backgrounds of Obama and McCain. McCain was born wealthy, the son of Adm. McCain. Obama's was more of the typical background. He was not rich, had a single mom, was raised also by his grandparents; and he made his own way in the world without any family connections.
February 25, 2008 1:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why doesn't Kristol just call Obama "uppity" and get it over with?
February 25, 2008 1:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
This article makes no sense to me. I want a president who is better than I am--more intelligent, more driven, more politically savvy, more of a visionary. If Obama thinks he's better than me, then I agree with him. It's time we had an extraordinary person as president.
Of course, the Bush team successfully painted John Kerry as a prissy sissy--and he was a bona fide war hero and a hockey player. Bush was a deserter and a cheerleader, but people were made to believe he "kicks ass." Amazing.
February 26, 2008 12:55 AM | Reply | Permalink