Who Smelt It Dealt It
Richard Wolffe, one of Keith Olbermann’s army of arm-sheaths, made an interesting observation on MSNBC this evening about an actual ”failing” of Obama’s campaign: he doesn’t use surrogates enough to field the incoming.
Yeah? Well, let’s see if we can find some surrogates for this poor man! Now that he’s disowned his own spiritual adviser and let go several policy advisers, he’s probably needing someone to step in and keep him from accusing the President of attacking him as an appeaser in a speech before the Israeli Knesset when the President didn’t even refer to him —either by name or intimation.
Hilariously, the White House came back later in the day —after Obama made of the speech what he needed for the cameras— to say that Bush was actually referencing Jimmy Carter, who has recently been drawing on Hamas’ pipe and getting humiliated in the process.
On balance, I’d say that Obama should have kept quiet since there was no need to impugn himself on a reference not even intended for him. He’s the one who chose to associate himself with Carter’s recent embarrassments by taking offense in Carter’s stead. That shows some deep insecurity and a guilty conscience —guilty of mistaking yourself for a stupid old man who recently got played by a bunch of Nazi Submitters.
