Who’s attacking whom, here?

The day after his campaign ran an ad mocking John McCain’s war injuries, just a few days after he referred to Sarah Palin as a lipsticked pig, Barack Obama warned supporters to look out for sleazy ads and unwarrated attacks on him, according to the Washington Times;

Sen. Barack Obama told voters not to fall for Republican attempts to “distort my record,” keeping up his attacks on Sen. John McCain, whose campaign criticized the Democrat for talking politics during a hurricane.

During a rally that was scaled back as Hurricane Ike swamped Texas, the Democratic presidential nominee said Republicans “will try to undermine your trust in what the Democrats are trying to do,” but warned voters in the blue-leaning swing state that “the times are too serious for those strategies to work.”

“If we don’t [start] the changes that we need starting right now, then our children may not have the same kind of America that we want them to have,” Mr. Obama said.

I think it’ll be pretty hard for the McCain campaign to distort Obama’s record since he doesn’t have one. Regardless, here’s a quick perusal of headlines in today’s news. From the International Herald Tribune;

From AFP;

From The Age;

From SeaCoast Online;

In fact, if you do a Yahoo search in the news on “Obama+attack” you get 11,000 results that begin like this;

Now a search of “McCain+attack” results in 11,000 hits, too (the first three articles were the same, so I cut one out)

So who is attacking whom here? I remember John McCain extending his hand on the night of Obama’s nomination in an ad that was gentlemanly. He didn’t even bother to campaign that night so Obama could have his night to himself. Obama repaid that gesture by conducting an interview while John McCain accepted his party’s nomination.

The only thing that has changed about the way Obama is conducting this campaign from Democrat campaigns in the past is the face. Oh, and did I mention he has a funny name?

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, John McCain/Sarah Palin, Media, Politics