Seriously, not at all smart. Barack Obama has personally gone on the offensive against Sarah Palin, according to Marc Ambinder. This isn’t an “Upconvert” its an attempt at a slam.
Well, how about Gov. Palin? She’s you know, an up and comer from Alaska. She – they’re starting to run an ad now saying she opposed the bridge to nowhere. Well now, let’s get the facts clear here. When she was mayor, she hired a Washington lobbyist to get earmarks – pork barrel spending – all the things that John McCain says is bad, she lobbied to get! And got a whole lot of it. When it came to the bridge to nowhere, she was for it until everybody started raising a fuss about it and she started running for governor and then suddenly she was against it!
You remember that? For it before you were against it? I mean you can’t just make stuff up. You can’t just recreate yourself. You can’t just reinvent yourself. The American people aren’t stupid.
No, they are not. Barack Obama requested $740 million in earmarks in his very brief Senate career. That number comes from none other than Barack Obama. (All, apparently, before this year, making the per day total even higher.) The left – or MSNBC – sigh, I know, I know – is trying to “nuance” that by braying that Alaska – meaning they blame Palin – asked for some $198 million last year. The “nuance here is that they claim it’s the per capita that counts.
Yeah, right.
You’re right, Mr. Obama, the American people are not stupid. The nuance will not matter. You look pretty ridiculous right now.
“For it before you were against it? I mean you can’t just make stuff up. You can’t just recreate yourself. You can’t just reinvent yourself. The American people aren’t stupid.”
Did he really say that? Is he kidding? Isn’t that EXACTLY what he has done throughout his entire campaign? His entire resume is made up. You can’t recreate yourself? Has he even noticed that the Barack Obama who is currently running for president is a completely different guy than the Barack Obama who was somewhat to the left of Karl Marx when he was running in the primaries? For it before you were against it (the lefties love to try and use this one against conservatives because it was used so effectively to skewer Kerry)? How about I was in favor of using public campaign money before I was against it? How about I was for joining McCain in Town Hall Meetings before I was against it? And the how about I was against it before I was for it? How about we don’t know that the current situation in Iraq is due to the troop surge because there were so many other factors involved and we don’t know what would have happened if they had taken my addvice? And now in his recent interview “There’s no question that the troop surge has succeeded beyond anyone’s wildest dreams in reducing the violence in Iraq”?
Let’s hope he’s right and that the American People are not stupid. That they can see he’s accusing the Republicans of doing exactly what he has been doing for the entire last two years.
And isn’t the Obamessiah starting to sound a little shrill? He’s starting to get that “Mommy they’re picking on me!” little boy edge in his voice again. It seems to happen everytime someone scores a legitimate hit on him. Next thing you know he’ll be saying “She’s acting like she’s Annie Oakley or something!” Oh, wait, he’s already used that one hasn’t he?