Once again Krauthammer says what needs to be said and well. What I appreciate is how Krauthammer illuminates what can only be described as the rank hypocrisy of the Obama campaign. What do I mean? I mean the accusations against McCain and his campaign that apply at least as well to Obama. It seems some see only motes in McCain’s eye and refuse to consider the beams in Obama’s. “Their guy” can do no right. “Our guy” can do no wrong.
Particularly this section:
McCain the “erratic” is a cheap Obama talking point. The 40-year record testifies to McCain the stalwart.
Nor will I countenance the “dirty campaign” pretense. The double standard here is stunning. Obama ran a scurrilous Spanish-language ad falsely associating McCain with anti-Hispanic slurs. Another ad falsely claimed McCain supports “cutting Social Security benefits in half.” And for months Democrats insisted that McCain sought 100 years of war in Iraq.
McCain’s critics are offended that he raised the issue of William Ayers. What’s astonishing is that Obama was himself not offended by William Ayers.
Read the whole thing here at Townhall.com. You do not have to register.
Cheap talking point. Pretense. Double standard. Scurrilous. False associations. False claims.
Mote? Meet beam.
There are two and only two reasons to vote for Sen Obama:
- You prefer his politics (or that of his party)
- You dislike the politics of the other guy (or that of his party)
Those are perfectly(?) fine reasons.
But all this other stuff about “racism has reared its ugly head, people won’t vote for Obama because of his ethnicity, don’t you dare mention Ayers or Wright or Raines or, no fraudulent voter registration here no sir, a McCain staffer lied about an attack? oh my goodness me oh my, all that money for Palin’s wardrobe what a bunch of crooks!” and so on and so on and so on is mostly red herring excuses to denigrate the other and prop up The One. (For the record – some of the above concerns are at least partly legitimate.)
McCain and his campaign have faults and problems. Many Republicans and McCain supporters seem to have the intellectual honesty and moral courage to admit these. I would like to see more such intellectual honesty and moral courage in the other camp.
It is not support for Obama itself that bothers me. It is the sometimes uncritical or hypocritical nature of that support (“your guy does something potentially damaging I will play it to the hilt, but I will deny ignore shrug off anything potentially damaging to my guy”).
