Lazy??

I am writing this to highlight a new angle being foisted on us by the Right. Let's stop it now.

So Barack Obama is "intellectualy lazy' according ot an unnamed White House source quoted in an article in which Bush says Clinton will win the nomination and then be beaten by the Repub nominee.

From the National Examiner:

"It's sort of like, 'that's all I need to get by,' which bespeaks sort of a condescending attitude towards the voters," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "And a laziness, an intellectual laziness."

He cited an example from Obama's memoir, The Audacity of Hope, in which the senator complains that many "government programs don't work as advertised." Five days after the book was published last fall, Obama was asked to name some of those government programs by Tim Russert on NBC's "Meet the Press."

Classic rumor starting by the rightwing. Obama doesn't have the right reply in every circumstance and now he's not just lazy but condescending.

We need to stop this characterization in its tracks.

Why give this person anonymity?

Doesn't Bush spell it out in the first graph - to paraphrase: "We want Clinton to be nominated so we can go after her like we did before. It'll be too easy."

I am not convinced that Clinton doesn't carry too much baggage. Obama and Edwards are both great alternatives. The rightwing noise machine shouldn't dictate what Democrats think and do.

Obama has intellectual credentials and activist credentials that few other campaigners can equal. I would argue it's his intellectual honesty and clarity that attract people to him.

Let's kill the Rightwing framing now.