It’s getting rough out there in politico-land today.
McCain is traveling to New Mexico to ask: “Who is the real Barack Obama?” He also has a commercial out asking lots of other people the same question:
Meanwhile, Palin has been riling people up about the Obama-Ayers connection to such a degree that one man, at a Florida rally today, shouted “Kill him!” (In context it seems most likely to have been a reference to Ayers, not Obama.) And as the Dow tanks, Obama is hitting back with KeatingEconomics.com, where you can now watch this long video about John McCain’s role in the Keating 5 scandal:
What’s driving all this? Polls like these, showing a double-digit Obama lead in Virginia, a state that McCain cannot lose and realistically expect to win the White House.
It’s clear now that McCain hopes to claw his way back up in the polls by tearing Obama down, insinuating that Obama’s a terrorist sympathizer, continuing to call Obama naive, and unleashing Palin to rile up the base with attacks in racist code.
And Obama clearly plans to hit back hard. He’s saying that two can play the guilt-by-association game, and that McCain’s past association with a notorious financial scandal makes him unfit to lead a country in the midst of a financial crisis.
It’s possible that by going tit-for-tat with McCain, Obama will just draw more attention to McCain’s attacks as the media focuses on the brawl. But my guess is that this is going to end up being a wash: McCain said this, Obama said that, both sides are getting rough because the election’s getting close, ho hum.
Given the current polling, a wash benefits Obama.
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