Camp Obama is making a Serious Strategic Mistake

Sometime this morning the talking points memo from Camp Obama to their loyal morons around the country creaked through fax machines and blipped on computer screens.

This Wall Street crisis was fully manufactured by corrupt Democrats and particularly in the cases of Fannie and Freddie, Obama has a very real problem.

Knowing that an ad is coming soon to expose Obama and his Democrat buddies as the architects and beneficiaries of this whole mess, it was time change the narrative.

Axelrod’s attempt to smear Sarah Palin with a proven false attack by astroturfing the internet ran off the tracks before it got started. (You can probably expect an ad in that as well.)

Well, if one false smear won’t stick, we’ll just toss out another one.

Every Democrat talking head I heard today mentioned the “Keating Five”.

I found this a little strange but it kept coming. All day, every surrogate parroting “Keating Five” to anyone with a camera.

Note to David Axelrod: The Keating Five is not Watergate.

Trying to attach a political opponent to a scandal is a fairly old practice. But two rules apply, (1) people have to know what the scandal is and (2) it is very unhelpful if the target of your attack was actually cleared of any wrong doing.

The problem is that most people don’t remember the details of the K5 scandal. Trying to pin it on McCain just makes folks look it up. Looking it up is not what Camp Obama wants you to do.

Remember that the Keating Five was four Democrats and John McCain.
Alan Cranston (D-CA)
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)
John Glenn (D-OH)
Donald Riegle (D-MI)
John McCain (R-AZ)

Oh yeah and McCain was cleared.

Democrat Robert S. Bennett, who was the special investigator during the scandal, suggested to the Senate Ethics Committee that it pursue charges against neither McCain nor Glenn, saying of McCain, “that there was no evidence against him.” The Vice Chairman of the Ethics Committee, Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, agreed with Bennett, but the Chairman, Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama, did not agree.

McCain and Glenn were cleared but the chairman of the investigation said they used poor judgment.

You see, when you actually look into what happened, it actually reflects worse on Democrats.

Way to go Axelrod, maybe you should try astroturfing more lies because this has no legs at all.

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