Barack Obama may be the second coming of Bobby Kennedy. He may also be the second coming of Gary Hart.
If this week's MSM coverage chronicled on http://www.solidpolitics.com is any indication, Obama may flame out like 1988's frontrunner Gary Hart. The issue won't be women; it will be candor.
In 1988, Gary Hart dared reporters to follow him. They did. They caught him with a woman on a boat called "Monkey Business" and that was the end of Gary Hart.
This week, Obama dared the press to challenge him on candor and he's paying the price. The LA Times traveled all the way to Indonesia to dispute Obama's claim that he was never a practicing Muslim. They discovered that he was a "registered" Muslim in 3rd and 4th grades.
While this shouldn't be a big deal, it was made into a story with legs by the Obama campaign's insistence that he'd never "prayed" in a Mosque. This is like Bill Clinton's "the meaning of 'is'." Obama should admit that he was schooled as a Muslim when he 8 and 9. Big deal. So what?
Obama also took some heat from a handful of Jews in Iowa who were simply "outraged" that Obama expressed sympathy for Palestinians. And this week, former President Bill Clinton basically called Obama a liar for saying he was the first to oppose the Iraq War.
Obama may be the second coming of Bobby Kennedy, but he won't get there letting his campaign hacks parse words. This only makes an enemy of the MSM. And what they build, they often destroy.
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