With less than six weeks to go until the 2008 General Election, it is increasingly evident that Democrats are growing desperate. If America truly desired Obama's brand of change, he would have left John McCain in the dust long ago, but they're still locked in a statistical tie. Democrats were caught off guard and were completely blindsided by the McCain campaign's brilliant choice of Sarah Palin to fill the Republican ticket and they have struggled to maintain their momentum ever since. In recent weeks, the Obama campaign and their supporters have found it necessary to resort to pure lowbrow tactics and vicious personal attacks in order to try and mislead people into voting for him.
A recent analysis by the University of Wisonsin shows that seventy seven percent of Obama's recent ads are characterized as negative, compared to McCain's fifty six percent. I guess when your ideology is morally bankrupt or your basic arguments are intellectually inferior, that's the kind of foolishness you have to engage in.
Media Bias and Manipulation
The bombastic nature of Charles Gibson's line of questioning when he asked Sarah Palin about the Bush Doctrine was completely out of line.
A doctrine is a set of principles, not a single idea.The Bush Doctrine is a liberal contrivance; a slur; a label attached to certain ideas adopted by President Bush to fight terror, much like they jawbone about the "Bush tax cuts". There is nothing published called the Bush Doctrine. It is whatever liberals decide it to be. But for argument's sake, I think we can agree that the term refers to our policies towards terrorists and the countries that support them, primarily in the area of military preemption. Therefore, The Patriot Act and related eavesdropping laws, the international laws concerning the freezing of terrorist finances, nuclear proliferation, preemption, extrajudicial rendition, torture, Guantanamo Bay detention and military tribunals are all topics that would be considered part and parcel of the Bush Doctrine. There are many people, including Republicans who don't agree with President Bush on every aspect of our solution to the problem of terrorism. Sarah Palin was entirely correct in asking for clarification of what Gibson was specifically asking, yet liberals led by Gibson relentlessly attacked her with their usual intellectual dishonesty.
Both Obama and McCain appeared recently on ABC's The View. When footage of both candidates was examined, it was clearly evident that there was an overt bias in favor of Obama. McCain was constantly peppered with hardball questions about how Sarah Palin was qualified or could possibly change Washington while Obama was visually undressed, compared to Brad Pitt and told how sexy he looked.
In another incident, McCain was somehow duped by unscrupulous photographer Jill Greenburg into taking photos under manipulated conditions which were edited to have McCain looking like something out of "Creature Feature". Like an impudent little child, she used photo editing software to alter one of the images giving McCain fangs with blood dripping from his lips. The photo bore the caption "
I am a blood-thirsty warmonger". Greenburg has extensive commercial interests including Disney, both Pepsi and Coca Cola, Procter and Gamble and Kraft Foods to name a few, yet this woman has the arrogance to brag about her juvenile artistic fraud. She was hired to shoot the photo for Atlantic Monthly, whose editor has spoke of an apology to Senator McCain and indicated he would withhold payment. Before being fired by her agency Vaughn Hannigan for her childish outbursts, Greenburg posted the doctored image on her own website, but was forced to remove it after the backlash.
In still another media manipulation, McCain advisor Carly Fiorina was asked in a radio interview: "
Do you think she [Palin] has the experience to run a major company like Hewlett Packard?"
Fiorina responded: "
No, I don't."
When later asked by MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell for clarification, Fiorina stated that the entire slate of candidates; McCain, Obama, Biden and Palin were
all unqualified to run a major corporation. Yet, Fiorina's remarks were edited to omit all but McCain's name from that list, and used out of context by the Obama campaign to attack John McCain as unqualified.
The Race Card
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius pulled out the race card and put it into play, saying in an interview that support for Barack Obama couldn't accurately be determined because of what she called "
secret racism".
Sebelius accused "some voters" of using what she called "code language", which is, ironically, code language for racism. The Obama campaign is also running Spanish-only television ads trying to claim that McCain is somehow inextricably tied to Rush Limbaugh, who incidentally opposed John McCain on immigration reform that included amnesty, among other things. Obama's ad also quoted Limbaugh out of context. For the record, Rush Limbaugh is no fan of John McCain and he was satirizing when he referred to the Mexican government's hypothetical position on American immigrants if the situation were reversed and Americans were flooding into Mexico. But through some slick editing, Obama created the false impression that Limbaugh was calling Mexican immigrants stupid. This ad was an outright lie and was intended to drum up ethnic resentment among Latinos directed towards Republicans. It is a complete disgrace. The only ones to mention race thus far in this campaign are Barack Obama with his comparison of himself to the "Presidents on the dollar bills", Joe Biden with his "first clean, articulate black guy" storybook and Kathleen Sebelius with her ignorant comments about secret code.
Sinking Even Lower
But in the most despicable attack by far,
Obama's campaign recently ran a new ad criticizing Senator McCain's alleged computer illiteracy, ignoring McCain's torture and the fact that broken bones inflicted during said toture prevent Senator McCain from raising his arms for prolonged periods or having the dexterity necessary to use a keyboard. Like this veteran and many others who live with head injuries, other wounds or disabilities inflicted during our service, McCain chooses to take the high road and not seek sympathy by focusing on his injuries, saying only that he relies on his wife and staff to work the computer for him. Out of one side of his mouth, Barack Obama praises John McCain for his service; out of the other he mocks McCain directly for his lack of computer use, which is --in essence-- mocking him for his physical impairments - the cost of McCain's service to his country. I guess Harvard law can't cure ignorance after all.
The Fear Factor
Liberals are so frightened of the possibility that Sarah Palin could indeed become the first female President some day they are like little children who just wet themselves. In another slur aimed at the disabled, when asked why Democrats seem to be afraid of Palin, their own Charles Rangel, under investigation on suspicion of tax evasion, shamelessly replied: "You got [sic] to be kind to the disabled."
Hillary Clinton bowed out of a rally that was sponsored by Jewish groups to protest the appearance of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. She was all set to appear until she heard that Sarah Palin was also invited. Democrats protested that the event would become political, so the group disinvited all political figures. Why is Hillary afraid of Sarah Palin?
The Obama campaign has criticized Palin's claim that living in Alaska and being able to see Russia is foreign policy experience. Let's be honest for a moment. Arguable as that statement is, let's not forget that it was Obama who first made bogus claims of foreign policy credentials; that somehow his years in Indonesia qualify him to be President. Obama has been attacking Palin so forcefully that even Democrats are beginning to question the wisdom of attacking her. What's more important? Experience at the top or the bottom of the ticket?
High Crimes and Misdemeanors?
Democrats have even resorted to criminal acts to try and smear the Republican ticket. The son of TN Democratic State Legislator Mike Kernell has been contacted by authorities and is currently being questioned about the unauthorized access of Palin's email account and the distribution of personal photos and other documents which were then posted on Gawker Magazine in an obvious attempt to embarrass her. You'd think that since Obama himself was the victim of unauthorized access of his own personal information, he would disavow this sort of thing, but his campaign remains completely silent, as do all Democrats, a sure sign of their tacit approval.
Democrats have discarded the new chapter they were going to write and instead, simply whipped out the same old Washington playbook. Stay on message, smear your opponent and win by whatever means necessary. Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have all but abandoned the politics of hope in favor of the politics of hate, class warfare, envy, race and division.
They've lied in the media, probably committed crimes, compared Sarah Palin to a prostitute, attacked the disabled, the economy and the military, threw tantrums and engaged in childish antics and we're still six weeks away. I guess desperate times call for desperate measures.
