Obama Gets Punk’d
16 January 2008 10:11 am by Taylor Marsh
Obama Gets Punk’d
Reported from Las Vegas, Nevada
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What a gift to Clinton.
But the funny part of it is that the Obama campaign blared it on the homepage
of their website. Did they read it?
Seriously, getting endorsed by the RJ in Las Vegas is like having
the Washington Times put you on the front page with Joe Lieberman.
Time’s
headline has it right and is repeated in many blogs: With endorsements
like these…
For starters, imagine Sen. Clinton and “co-president” Bill Clinton
invited onto a “This is Your Life” talk show where they’re joined
by Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers and
Monica Lewinsky.And that’s before we even get around to a HillaryCare plan that could have
sent you to jail for offering to pay your doctor in cash to “get to the
head of the line.” … ..Is Barack Obama, then, the ideal Democratic candidate for president? Hardly.
His policy recommendations — when he can be convinced to get any more specific
than “I represent change” — are the opposite of “change.”
They’re old-line, welfare-state solutions that haven’t spent enough time in
the microwave to appear even superficially appetizing.Sen. Obama is a relatively young man with relatively little of the kind of
real-world experience that prepares a candidate to stand firm against urgent
advice to, say, bomb some remote population of defenseless civilians to “send
a message,” or plunge the economy into a dark night of unforeseen consequences
by crippling the free market in the name of “fighting greed.” …
..
As Ben
Smith noted first, evidently the Obama campaign finally got the word on
this one, because the blog post blasting the endorsement has
now been nuked. It’s also been removed from the homepage. You know, like
Obama did with his anti Iraq war speech when it became too hot for him, until
he was caught and made to put it back.
But talk about not knowing Nevada.
Las Vegas reporter Jon
Ralston:
And with the RJ’s track record on major endorsements, this
could be, as CityLife Editor Steve Sebelius put it, the kiss of death for
Obama’s campaign.
No matter what happens on Saturday, Obama just got punk’d.
