« Nixonlandland | Main | Home »
A new politics
By Ned | May 10, 2008
I swear to god - I voted for Obama once already and I’m planning on doing so again in November, but sometimes it seems like his new politics is just like the old politics except even dumber.
After the event, an Obama spokesperson indicated that that the senator’s campaign had no intention of pushing the Keating Five scandal.
“There is more than enough space between Barack Obama and John McCain on the issues, whether it is tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans or a timeline for bringing our troops home, and that is where we will focus our campaign,” Psaki said.
Except one of the big issues McCain has claimed for his own is battling corruption - so it doesn’t matter a teensy bit that he is, in fact, pretty damn corrupt? This isn’t like going around saying that your opponent was endorsed by Hamas (which, incidentally, McCain himself isn’t above doing) - it’s a public corruption scandal. He was chastised by a Senate committee, for Chrissake!
Look, it’s admirable to keep your opponent’s private life off limits when campaigning. But the best way to predict how good someone’s judgment will be in a leadership position is to look at what they’ve done with their previous leadership positions. If we start deciding that it’s not longer acceptable to make that into a campaign issue, then pretty soon we’re going to run out of things to declare off limits.
Topics: Uncategorized |