Obama is going all the way. This man will be our next President. If there’s anything we’ve learned over the past few weeks, since Obama gained the nomination, it’s that Barack Obama is a politician’s politician. Hillary was no match. The vaunted Bill was no match. McCain is no match.
Obama’s latest brilliant move was having retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a military advisor for Obama, play the bad cop and do the dirty work of claiming that John McCain's Vietnam service did not necessarily mean he’s qualified to be president. Let that soak for a few news cycles....
Right on cue, viola! Barack Obama plays good cop and rides the high road to rebuke (wink, wink) Clark and then launch into another Obamariffic, soaring speech on his own patriotism at (gasp - what a coincidence!) Independence, Missouri – birthplace of Harry Truman.
"At certain times over the last 16 months, I have found, for the first time, my patriotism challenged -- at times as a result of my own carelessness, more often as a result of the desire by some to score political points and raise fears and doubts about who I am and what I stand for," intoned the Great Man. "Given the enormous challenges that lie before us, we can no longer afford these sorts of divisions," Obama continued.
"None of us expect that arguments about patriotism will, or should, vanish entirely; after all, when we argue about patriotism, we are arguing about who we are as a country, and more importantly, who we should be. " the Great Man sonorously droned. "But surely, we can agree that no party or political philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism. And surely, we can arrive at a definition of patriotism that, however rough and imperfect, captures the best of America's common spirit."
Take THAT, John McCain! First we hit you low with a campaign stoolie, then the Great Man whacks you high with his patented "...we can no longer afford these sorts of divisions.." smackdown.
NAFTA, FISA, campaign finance reform, and now tag-team smackdown with Clark as the heel and Obama once again playing the reasoned statesman.
By the time Barack Obama is sworn in, the Clintons will look like amateurs.