One of my most frequent commenters pointed out that John McCain put Obama on a dollar bill some time ago. So it would appear that Obama wasn’t just speculating when he said they’d be pointing out that he doesn’t look like other presidents on the currency:
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This line of attack would be truly baffling it it weren’t for the obvious subtext. The corporate media has done its best to ignore it, but David Gergen broke the code of silence on this on one of the Sunday shows:
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Funny thing. George Bush was a Texas governor who knew nothing about foreign affairs and was an obvious dunce. He had been picked for the job by a bunch of Republican hotshots who figured they could successfully sell him. He was a certifiable chickenhawk. Had his last name not been Bush, he’d have done time for insider trading, if not for going AWOL. He had no obvious qualifications, and in fact had a history of failure at almost everything he did. No one ever called him presumptuous. No one ever called him arrogant, though he is in fact both of those things. No one even called him unqualified, or at least no one in the national press.
The fact is that you have to be a little bit presumptuous and a little bit arrogant to run for president. I have been following politics since I was a kid. I can’t recall a presidential candidate that was attacked for being either presumptuous or arrogant. I’m sure it’s just coincidence that the first one is a black man.
On the other hand, not many have been senile, although some have been dolts. We will not hear about McCain’s problem unless he demonstrates it in a very public forum, such as, let us fervently hope, the debates.
It’s going to be a long campaign. It was in late July and early August that John Kerry lost his race. Obama has to start hitting back. The McCain sleaze machine is driving the narrative. The media is used to letting the Republicans frame the issues. Unfortunately, Obama is going it alone. The Democrats are, as usual, AWOL themselves and are not pushing a counter-narrative. On the other hand, after Obama sort of threw Wes Clark under the bus, you can understand why they might be a little shy about going on the attack.
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