Doing McCain’s work for him
I mentioned yesterday that the two Democrat candidates will spend the next several months hammering away at each other and today we get some good examples of how well they’re doing the heavy lifting for John McCain.
From American Pundit, Hillary tells us that John McCain has a lifetime of experience to bring to the job of President;
She can’t seem to say it enough; John McCain brings a lifetime of experience. She brings a lifetime of experience, too – but we all know what her experience has been, don’t we? Oh, and Barack Obama brings a speech he made six years ago.
But, then, from Ace of Spades, it gets even better. Susan Rice one of Obama’s foreign policy advisors tells MSNBC that neither Hillary nor Obama are ready for that 3 AM phone call;
A transcription from Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs;
In it, Susan Rice, a foreign policy adviser to Senator Barack Obama, discusses the foreign policy credentials of both Democrats against the tableau of Mrs. Clinton’s 3 a.m. phone call advertisement about who would be best prepared for an international crisis. (While your children are safely asleep.)
“Clinton hasn’t had to answer the phone at three o’clock in the morning and yet she attacked Barack Obama for not being ready,’’ Ms. Rice said. “They’re both not ready to have that 3 a.m. phone call.”
In a word… awesome.
Get that – neither are ready.
Gaius at Blue Crab Boulevard quotes some Obama staff going for Clinton’s throat;
Well, the Obama campaign appears to have gone green. They’re recycling all the old viciousness the left has been using on George Bush for years now and applying it to Hillary Clinton. Today, it’s prying the Most Secretive® label off Bush and attempting to slap it onto Clinton.
The Obama campaign is stepping up the rhetoric. Campaign Manager David Plouffe went so far as to call Hillary Clinton the “most secretive politician in America today.”
The tough talk underscored not only the negative shift in tone of the Obama campaign in the past 24 hours, but just how contentious this fight for the nomination is becoming.
This cartoon from Baldilocks;
I hope the McCain campaign is getting all of this.
Category: John McCain/Sarah Palin, Politics
I think Susan Rice’s comment is this year’s “I supported it before I voted against it” moment. She wins the John Kerry Silver Tongue Award…
I will admit that I am having way too much fun watching them go at each other like this. At this point there’s no way one will pick the other as veep to try and unify the party.
But my thinking is changing on another matter too; I’m now not so sure that Obama would be the harder candidate to beat. He’s shown some weaknesses that expose serious vulnerabilities. His bogus press conference when he left after 8 questions angered the press, which is always a bad move. The press could turn against him if he doesn’t treat them well. He also didn’t handle Tuesday’s defeats well, which shows that he’s only on his game when everything is going well.