Barack, the inexperienced grave digger
September 15, 2008
© 2008
Doug Powers.
worldnetdaily.com
The Obama campaign is slowly turning into a World War I German army division that keeps hurling mustard gas at the enemy – from a downwind position – and yet wonders why it's wheezing badly while the enemy keeps advancing undaunted.
True, there are relatively irrelevant distractions, such as radio host Randi Rhodes and the ridiculous notion that McCain was "well-treated" by his Vietnamese captors. Who knew McCain was held captive by the same people who mugged Randi Rhodes?
Then there are vacuous silicone-brained celebs like Pamela Anderson, who said Sarah Palin can "suck it." (Note to McCain campaign: I have a great idea for an ad involving Anderson's quote and a 3 a.m. phone call to Palin from Tommy Lee – let me know if you want to see the script.) This kind of thing may not be helping Obama – after all, endorsement from a moron is a few hundred votes for your opponent – but they make no difference in the big picture.
In reality, Obama's worst enemy is his own campaign, and media that are starting to behave like jilted lovers.
Consider one of the latest Obama ads mocking John McCain for, in part, "admitting that he can't send an e-mail."
Why can't McCain use a computer or e-mail? Because he's an out-of-touch old guy?
According to a Boston Globe article written eight years ago, "McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard or tying his shoes."
Team Obama learned about this and held an emergency meeting to berate their advertising people – for forgetting to tell everybody that McCain can't tie his shoes.
Then there's the treatment of Sarah Palin. Think about it – there are people who are actually incensed that this woman and her husband let their baby live. If that doesn't make your jaw drop, then – well, you're a charter member of NARAL.
The media aren't helping their hero, either. Charlie Gibson asking Obama what his favorite color is and, in a subsequent interview, asking Palin to recite the Gettysburg Address while juggling on a unicycle should have had the feminists "Betty Friedan signature series underwear" in a jumble, but it didn't. The bias may be coming to an end though, because increasing numbers of the MSM are now acting like people rescued from a desert island who have discovered that the abandoned Buick Roadmaster they'd worshipped as a god since childhood is in fact only an abandoned Buick Roadmaster.
The bad news for Obama is that his decline could be expedited by NARAL, Planned Parenthood and EMILY's List, who plan to spend a combined $30 million on anti-Palin ads.
To counter Palin, Democrats are forced to take a Ward Cleaver tone when it comes to teenage sex, to drive around in public in their rusty Kevorkian-style van of infanticide for all to see and inform women everywhere that the glass ceiling shouldn't be broken if you have a lot of laundry to do.
The bump in Palin's personal approval numbers doesn't have as much to do with her being "pro life" as it does with the apparent fact that there are fewer and fewer people who are willing to be associated with kooks, loons and butchers – much to the benefit of the nation as a whole.
Issues that should be handled with kid gloves by both Obama and his supporting 501(c)3 groups – issues such as McCain's Vietnam service and POW years, Palin's Down Syndrome child, etc., – are instead kicked around like hacky sacks at a college tailgate party.
The real issue the Democrats should be publicizing is the fact that McCain spent the better part of his political career playing smoochie-smoochie with more liberal Democrats than the girl working at a Berkeley kissing booth trying to raise money to buy Sleep Number beds for Gitmo detainees.
Democrats should be saying "Why vote for a knock-off when you can have the genuine article?" Democrats shouldn't be comparing McCain to Bush – they should be comparing McCain to Democrats. But they can't, because they're so incredibly distracted by McCain's most brilliant political move ever and the reason I'm now going to vote for McCain: Sarah Palin.
If the Democrats lose this election, it's going to be because they were in such a hurry to bury Sarah Palin that they forgot to get out of the hole they dug before ordering the dirt shoveled back in. A grave digger with "experience" would have known better. |
