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Terms Defined

Rich Lowry at NYPost cruelly mocks Obama’s desire to define the terms of political discussion … a shocker, coming from the PC side of the aisle … on the grounds that it’s wrong to define people. OK, says Lowry, no more defining then: 

If Barack Obama gets his way, the Oxford English Dictionary will have updated its definition of “distraction” by the end of the campaign: “Diversion of the mind, attention, etc., from any object or course that tends to advance the political interests of Barack Obama.”

After his blowout win in North Carolina last week, Obama turned to framing the rules of the general election ahead, warning in his victory speech of “efforts to distract us.” The chief distracter happens to be the man standing between Obama and the White House, John McCain, who will “use the very same playbook that his side has used time after time in election after election.”

Ah, yes, the famous distractions with which Republicans fool unwitting Americans. Ronald Reagan distracted them with the Iranian hostage crisis, high inflation and unemployment, gas lines and the loss of American prestige abroad. Then, the first George Bush distracted them with the notion of a third Reagan term, as well as the issues of taxes, crime and volunteerism. After a brief interlude of national focus during two Clinton terms, another Bush arrived wielding the dark art of distraction.

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Obama has an acute self-interest in so diagnosing the American electorate. His campaign knows he’s vulnerable to the charge of being an elitist liberal. Unable to argue the facts, it wants to argue the law — defining his weaknesses as off-limits.

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We could take Obama’s rules in good faith if he never calls John McCain a “conservative” or labels him in any other way. If he never criticizes him for his association with George Bush. If he doesn’t jump on his gaffes (like McCain’s 100-years-in-Iraq comment that Obama distorted and harped on for weeks). And if he never says anything that would tend to make Americans fearful about the future or divide them (i.e., say things that some people agree with and others don’t).

This is, of course, an impossible standard. Obama doesn’t expect anyone to live up to it except John McCain.

Ha. There they go again … Gateway: Dems scream racism after Repubs show Obama in a campaign ad.

Topics: pols

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:24 am on Tuesday, May 13, 2008

2 Responses to “Terms Defined”

1. RebeccaH Says:
   May 13th, 2008 at 11:44 am

   Lowry sees the Obama candidacy for the hollow politician’s sham that it is.

2. TheBigHenry Says:
   May 13th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

   The 92% of blacks who vote for Obama constitute an 11.5 to 1 support factor among black voters. That kind of overwhelming support is beyond highly favorable; it is monolithic, prejudicial, and as such, it is racist.

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