Smear Smear
That’s the smearing smear, used to smear a smearer. AP, to its credit, notes the indignant smearee may have smeared:
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Barack Obama says John McCain has abandoned the integrity of his 2000 presidential run to engage in “slash-and-burn, say-anything, do-anything politics” in a last-ditch effort to get elected.
Speaking in Iowa, Obama sought Friday to hold his Republican rival’s negative ads against him, although the Democratic presidential candidate is running negative ads too.
Maybe the AP scribblers have finally developed a sense of shame. Hang on, I spoke too soon:
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — In a bold move brimming with confidence, Democrat Barack Obama broadened his advertising campaign on Friday into two once reliably Republican states and further bedeviled rival John McCain by placing a commercial in the Republican presidential nominee’s home state of Arizona.
Bedeviled by a bold move brimming with confidence. Damn … almost sounds like McCain is in the dark and stormy night of his career.
In what could be a final ignominy for McCain, Obama campaign manager David Plouffe said the campaign would begin airing ads in Arizona, a state McCain has represented in Congress for 26 years. Plouffe said the race has tightened in Arizona, Georgia and North Dakota. A recent poll from McCain’s home state showed the two candidates in a statistical dead heat.
Well, national polling of the entire race has barely veered off a statistical dead heat, if at all, though AP has been loath to report that. Could interfere with the potboiler’s happy ending.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:06 pm on Friday, October 31, 2008
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