How sad to be a Republican these days.
Turd Blossom turns his wondrous prose on Obama and his "revisionist" history in today's WSJ.
Join me below the fold for some cold leftovers.
UPDATE: The link Rove Op-Ed
He starts with the Auschwitz gaffe...
This week's minor controversy about Barack Obama's claim that an uncle liberated Auschwitz was quickly put to rest by his campaign. They conceded that it was a great uncle whose unit liberated Buchenwald, 500 miles away.
Oh my goodness. Obama got two death camps confused. And it wasn't an uncle, it was a great uncle. SHAME ON YOU BARACK OBAMA.
After picking myself up off the floor from laughing about this being the leading issue in the Op-Ed, I read on...
But other, much more troubling, episodes have provided a revealing glimpse into a candidate who instinctively resorts to parsing, evasions and misdirection. The saga over Rev. Jeremiah Wright is Exhibit A. In just 62 days, Americans were treated to eight different explanations.
Mr. Rove then continues on with 8 paragraphs of the "changing explanation" for Rev Wright's comments.
Including:
- Feb. 25, Mr. Obama downplayed Rev. Wright's divisiveness, saying he was "like an old uncle who sometimes will say things that I don't agree with."
- Mr. Obama's spokesman said the senator "deeply disagrees" with Rev. Wright's statements,
- "The statements that Rev. Wright made that are the cause of this controversy were not statements I personally heard him preach while I sat in the pews of Trinity or heard him utter in private conversation."
Can't you all just see how these explanations are all so divergent? (Neither can I). Obama has been completely consistent in his statements about Wright.
Then, the blowhard continues....
The Rev. Wright affair is just one instance where the Illinois senator has said something wrong or offensive, and then offered shifting explanations for his views. Consider flag pins.
OH NO!!!!! NOT THE FLAG PINS AGAIN!!!
Gotta love this line:
His campaign issued a statement that "Senator Obama believes that being a patriot is about more than a symbol." To highlight his own moral superiority, he denigrated the patriotism of those who wore a flag.
LFMAO. "denigrating the patriotism of those who wore a flag"? OMFG. Really? Is that how you think people interpreted that statement? Well, I guess some of the real knuckle draggers would. Quick, someone give old Rovie a link to pictures of all the other "great patriots" who don't wear flag pins.
Oh yeah, and remind him of where they are made (China).
And his rhetorical flourish ends with this gem:
The list goes on. Mr. Obama's problem is a campaign that's personality-driven rather than idea-driven. Thus incidents calling into question his persona and character can have especially devastating consequences.
Stripped of his mystique as a different kind of office seeker, he could become just another liberal politician – only one who parses, evades, dissembles and condescends. That narrative is beginning to take hold. If those impressions harden into firm judgments, Mr. Obama will have a very difficult time in November.
OH NO!!! The Hillary "He has a speech in 2002" line. Is this REALLY all they have?
The Republicans and "Bush's brain" have so little left, that they have to rehash this already debunked stuff.
Shame on the WSJ for publishing this tripe. But of course, we know which way they lean.