Obama has made the calculation that he can’t beat McCain, so he has re-tooled his campaign to run against Palin, and the DNC press monkies are cooperating.
Its a judo move. They think if they can bring her down, McCain falls with her. Its pretty transparent, the strategy, and the fact that the propagandists carrying press badges are so complicit with his campaign.
The funny thing is that he miscalculated. She is the more charismatic of the two. The more they throw at Palin, the more his campaign founders and flounders. I’m enjoying the spectacle. Every time he points at her supposed lack of credentials it reminds people that he doesn’t have any.
His only chance at the White House depends upon his ability to be all things to all people and no one noticing that he has made it all up, nothing is real. She’s real. Check. Mate.
It's a strategic and tactical blunder.Obama has been pulled completely off message ("a new kind of candidate offering hope - a uniter.")
In attacking Palin, he becomes just another mean and desperate politician. Obama turned angry in his Denver speech and now he's turning just plain mean.
His whole campaign carries the stench of massive defeat. Don't be fooled by the "tight" polls. Obama's been told privately he's going to get his butt kicked on November 4th.
That is the only explanation for the panicked abandonment of his original strategy. The over-the-top smears and trashing of the GOP female Vice-Presidential pick is the clear sign of a loser.
There's too much downside to the risk of a massive backlash from a vicious attack on Palin unless you KNOW you're getting whipped.
You cannot "win the hearts of the undecided" by being a low-down, dirty, rotten son-of-a-bitch.
This election is effectively over so Obama apparently believes he has nothing to lose now in his campaign's collapse.
It's very obvious to a majority of Americans the attacks on Sarah Palin are completely beyond the pale in their depravity.
We're watching a trapped, dying animal lashing out in the throes of a last-gasp fight.
That had to be a goodly part of McCain's strategy. If the fight stays between Barry and Baracuda, the worst that happens for our side is a draw. McCain gets to stay above the fray, and Obambi never really gets around to attacking McCain's positions. Meanwhile attacks on Sarah galvanize the base.
The Rats and their media lackeys are falling right into place.