Think the Jeremiah Wright controversy is behind Barack Obama and that he’s weathered the storm? Don’t be so naive. Bill Kristol lays out the threat of Wright-themed attack ads from McCain and his allies in this morning’s New York Times:
McCain’s comeback should begin just after Labor Day, on Sept. 4, with a strong acceptance speech at the Republican convention….
More fundamental will be the question of the discrepancy between the image of Obama the uniter and the reality of Obama the liberal. That hasn’t been much of a problem for Obama in the Democratic contest, since Clinton hasn’t attacked from the right or even the center.
But Republicans will. Last week, over drinks, one Republican strategist not affiliated with the McCain campaign mused about how an independent advertising effort against Obama might work. “Barack Obama: He’s not who you think he is” would be the theme. The supporting evidence would come from his left-wing voting record in Illinois and Washington, spiced up with fun video clips of Reverend Wright.
This is not a Kristol daydream. This is the current thinking of a real live GOP strategist. Obama better figure out how he’s going to respond to the second Wright wave this fall. It’s bound to be more relentless than the first, since Hillary Clinton didn’t do too much to exploit it.
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posted April 7, 2008 at 1:02 pm
And you can count on some of the media, like Kristol, Brooks, Limbaugh, Will, Hannity, O’Reilly ,
The WSJ editorial page, Medved, Coulter, Pat Robertson’s empire, the Washington Times, etc. , to repeat them . Followed closely by the rest of the media, incuding the NY TImes, Wahsington Post, all the networks, and everyone else. Amazing how you can count on the ‘liberal’ media to obediently type all this stuff up no matter how stupid it is.
And so we get the government we deserve. It’s not God judging us- it’s us getting what we voted for.
But it’s going to end up looking like a judgement, and in a way it will be.
posted April 7, 2008 at 10:40 pm
White privileged media and religous maniacs is the Rebublican Party.