Posted on 12/16/2008 11:46:03 AM PST by lewisglad
Ominous music. Grainy footage. Headlines showing that Obama--OMG!--once supported Blagojevich. References in news reports noting that Obama aides might have had talked to Blagojevich about filling the Senate seat Obama vacated. And the kicker: "Questions Remain."
As the indictment filed against Blagojevich notes, the guv was not too pleased with the Obama camp. So it's unlikely that any talks that did occur were of the pay-to-play variety he fancied. But here's the bigger political picture: the GOP ought to be careful in deploying the usual political attacks against Obama in the near future.
At a moment when the country confronts several crises--an economic meltdown and two ongoing wars--a distinct majority of Americans are rooting for Obama. He won the popular vote with 53 percent of the electorate. And my hunch is that given the current economic troubles, there are a number of McCain voters--who are not ideologues or Obama-haters--who would like to see Obama succeed. After all, it's their economy, too. Would these McCain voters (who may be independents) rather watch Obama help preserve modern-day American capitalism or would they prefer to enjoy him being slammed by GOP mud balls?
Put together the Obama voters and these reasonable (and/or worried) McCain voters and you have over 60 percent of the electorate, maybe close to two-thirds. If the Republicans go too far in assailing Obama with sideshow issues or unfounded allegations (or insinuations), it risks angering a fair number of people--and not just Democrats. The GOP's burgeoning Blagojevich-Obama campaign is reminiscent of the McCain camp's use of the Bill Ayers issue.
There's a big mess this nation--and Obama--needs to deal with. Poking at Obama with a partisan stick could backfire. (Do sticks backfire?) Sure, on a difficult matter like the auto bailout, the Republicans may be able to get away with obstructionism. Yet overall and highly partisan efforts to undermine Barack Obama may not be embraced by voters outside the party's hard-core base.
It's often difficult for an opposition party to figure out how to be the Loyal Opposition. In these tough days, that task may be even harder for Republicans. Anyone not yearning for a GOP comeback ought to be delighted to see the Republicans attempting to exploit the Blagojevich scandal and make it more of an issue for Obama than it seems to be. The Blago story is a delicious one. But voters must be worried more about their jobs than that particular opening in the US Senate.
We can never go too far.
We haven’t gone far enough in two decades.
I don’t seem to recall too many such editorials warning the RATs about their never ending streams off outright lies in their attacks.
In fact, it's been quite the opposite
Is it not ironic that the MSM never once deemed it important to ask if Democrats could go too far in such instances as Mark Foley of Larry Craig?
The author seems to be saying that it doesn’t matter that Obama may be a crook because there are huge problems. Unfortunately, he will be given hundred’s of $billions to deal with these problems. If he is a crook, then we need to know ASAP!
CULTURE OF CORRUPTION
From selling Senate seats to stuffing bribe money down their bras to voter fraud and government regulations that have helped damage our country.
Democrats once and for all need to be held accountable.
May the GOP grow a spine.
watch Obama help preserve modern-day American capitalism
Now I know this writer is delusional! We don’t have ‘capitalism’ today. It’s a ‘mixed’ economy soon to be ‘command economy’ according to Obama and his cronies!
BOOO !! Nope that didn’t do it . Zero can have the same respect President Bush got from the first minute in office . Which is ZERO . Well less than . Talk about using fear .
The difference is, well here:
Blago’s “pay-to-play” is a despicablle, greedy abuse of power.
Opossum’s “pay-to-play” is just a brutha getting what’s owed to him after all those years of white oppression.
And even if they had HD video with audio, there would be those that would deny it. Those who would shrug it off. And others trying to suppress it, saying it doesn't exist.
He's been appointed and anointed and nothing will stop that.
No?
Then cry me a river.
I want EVERYTHING thrown at the Dalai-Bama - including the kitchen sink, his secreted Birth Certificate, his racist past, his too close ties to Islamists, Communists, Marxists, and your run of the mill thugs.
The more the Dalai-Bama attempts to duck, obfuscate or avoid — the more he should be assaulted..
He can't handle the heat — he never has, he will fold like the cheap suit he mimics.
The GOP had better stop it right now or McCain will get really pissed.
Or, maybe BO didn't come across with an offer Blago couldn't refuse.
Yeah, screw the truth about Obama's inner circle of thugs, terrorists and criminals, we can't trouble the new President while we're at war and are experiencing economic trouble; oh wait, the Democrats have been doing that to President Bush for years now. I really think the Obamites are terrified of any light that might shine on the real Barak Hussein Obama, the empty suit thug from ChiTown.
The MSM/Dem/Beltway hive is trying to intimidate the republicans not to be mean to Zero .
Bingo! Throw enough, and he won’t be able to duck all of it.
Oh I get it.
Like the same way the Democrats were ever so polite to President Bush that top Democrats regularly referred to President Bush as Hitler?
The lame brain media is so predictable, and even more pathetic.
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