Senator Obama is not a man of his word – what a surprise!
Many of you may remember how Senator Obama accused Senator McCain of running negative ads, going so far as to say that Senator McCain’s ads were negative 100% of the time; and of course he Senator Obama has been above all the fray running nothing but a “positive’ campaign. But negative campaigning like “beauty” is obviously in the eye of the beholder and if Senator Obama can wiggle his way out of or distance himself from negative comments about his opposition then I guess he thinks he can claim that he has done no negative campaign. First he promised to take public financing for his campaign, but reneged on that promise when it become convenient, now he breaks his pledge to avoid negative campaigning and I think he decided to go negative because in his word parsing world since his campaign and he are attacking an “average” person and not a political adversary then it must be okay.
Senator Obama is not above negative campaigning, and his partner-in-crime this time is his running mate Senator Biden (the man Obama said was the “champion” of the blue collar worker and middle America). Senator Biden is such a champion of Middle America that he thought nothing of attacking and impugning a citizen. The verbal attack took place on Thursday (10/16) morning while Senator Biden was being interviewed on national television. Now most American’s have come to expect politicians to vilify one another which explains in no small part why so many people eschew the notion of running for any elective office, no matter how small, for fear of their entire life being laid bare before the public. However, this unfortunate practice has become business as usual for those in the public eye, but now Senators Obama and Biden have stooped to a whole new low and begun to attack the average, on the street individual. Of course the media could not resist and jumped into the whole thing with characteristic glee going so far as to even reveal that this individual owed back taxes to the State. Make no mistake, Senator Obama joined in this “beat on the little guy who doesn’t kow tow to us” theme when at a rally later in the day he also brought up the person we have come to know as “Joe the Plumber”. Shame on you Senators Obama and Biden!
To this citizen, the glee with which Senators Obama and Biden went after a regular citizen is reprehensible. Why did Senators Obama and Biden, their campaign, and surrogates go after this average American citizen? Their actions illustrate negative campaign at its ultimate low and if we tolerate candidates attacking citizens for daring to ask questions and seek answers then we set a tone in this nation that can only have a chilling effect on our freedom of speech and our freedom to question those who wish to be our leaders – and we all know where that path leads.
