Will Bunch of Attytood:
Daily News op-ed columnist Christine M. Flowers has a piece up that is sharply questioning about Barack Obama and his qualifications to become president. Ironically, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post also has a new article today, and it totally takes down the kind of attack piece that Christine wrote here in Philly.The post cites several negative statements by Flowers then alternates with what the (amazing!) Google brings up. Just a click away from the truth, Ms. Flowers. Makes you look like a complete Bush bobblehead.
Bunch finishes:
I guess they really don't know what voter excitement looks like, having had to manufacture fake riots and rallies for the Bush elections. So here come the idiot words: cult and personality following, etc, etc..... her great "unanswered" questions about Obama were all easy to answer, in a matter of seconds every time, by using this magical device called The Google. You really should try it sometime, Christine. The point is, Christine M. Flowers and the many others who are constructing this story line don't even want to try to learn the answers, because that would kill their best line of attack for the fall.
Actually, this has been the most entertaining subplot of the whole campaign -- the quest for an anti-Obama story line. So far, they're tried to turn enthusiasm into a cult, and now they're raising unanswered questions -- a great tactic as long as you don't look the answers up.
Barack Obama must be scaring them silly.
Update: Via Atrios of Eschaton, D at Lawyers, Guns, and Money:
Read the hilarious response.John Dickerson, while ruminating on the possible limits of Barack Obama's "hipness," asks a profoundly stupid question:
More generally, shouldn't Democrats who have complained that George Bush was elected on the strength of a popularity contest be nervous that this blossoming Obamadulation is getting out of hand?
6 comments:
No, this is a bad thing! If Barack Obama becomes too popular don't you see that it will cause a backlash that will help the Republicans!? Because everything, no matter what it is, must help the Republicans, you know.
Wait! If he becomes too popular, he'll become unpopular? Then the Republicans are helped? But what if he becomes too popular, becomes unpopular because of his extreme popularity and then becomes popular again?
This must help the Republicans... let me think.
Well, he was only popular because he was an underdog and now that he's favored, and Republican turnout having been so low, John McCain will be the underdog and everyone loves the underdog so this is good for the Republicans. There you go.
Herk! Don't scare me like that!
Well, it's a good plan and it would work too if it weren't for those pesky bloggers.
Those damned internetal tubes and trucks!
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