Out of respect to those affected by Hurricane Ike John McCain stayed home. Sarah Palin stayed home. Joe Biden stayed home. Barack Obama cancelled an appearance on Saturday Night Live, but couldn’t pass up a day to go out and attack Senator John McCain. According to Fox News, Obama made a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
“I warned that going into iraq would distract us from Afghanistan. John McCain cheerleaded for it – John McCain was wrong and I was right. I’ve said we need to make sure that we are increasing our strength in Afghanistan and that we should be going after bin Laden – Don’t talk about chasing him to the gates of hell. We know where he is – in the hills between Afghanistan and Pakistan – we should have stayed focused there in the first place. John McCain was wrong and I was right. We don’t need more tough talk, we need smart strategy and we need to recognize that the world is looking for leadership from America.”
In one paragraph Obama used a playground taunt twice. After McCain’s campaign released a reply, Obama’s campaign fired back.
“We will take no lectures from John McCain who is cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern Presidential campaign history” which is “not worthy of the office he is seeking.”
As if airdropping lawyers and investigators into Sarah Palin’s home town isn’t sleazy. With each passing day Obama becomes more desperate. His dream of ascending to the highest office in the land is slipping away. As his wife would say, they keep raising the bar. So much for his promises of “new politics.”
