Obama’s inexperience boomerang

Obama is losing control of his campaign like Mikey with his magic:

Obama the Apprentice

Be Careful With Your Power!

What Other’s Say about Obama and his lack of leadership

and his desperation!

And now he has stepped in it again and again and again,

From Michelle Malkin:

By Michelle Malkin • September 6, 2008 06:24 AM

Er, um, uh, uh, uuuuuuuuuh:

From Hot Air:

Guess which card Obama pulled out of the deck today?

posted at 3:30 pm on September 5, 2008 by Ed Morrissey

With both Rasmussen and Gallup showing Barack Obama moving backwards even before the Republican Convention dropped its balloons on Andrea Mitchell, one can excuse the Democratic nominee for hearing footsteps. How desperate has he gotten? Looks like he’s playing the race card once again:

“I know that I’m not your typical presidential candidate,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told executives and employees of the Schott glass company Friday afternoon, “and I just want to be honest with you. I know that.”

“And I know that the temptation is to say, ‘You know what? …The guy hasn’t been there that long in Washington.,’ You know, ‘he’s got funny name,’ You know, ‘we’re not sure about him,’” Obama continued. “And that’s what the Republicans, when they say, ‘This isn’t about issues, it’s about personalities,’ what they’re really saying is, ‘We’re going to try to scare people about Barack. So we’re going to say that you know, maybe he’s got Muslim connections or we’re going to say that, you know, he hangs out with radicals or he’s not patriotic.’

Once again, Obama has resorted to a smear campaign against the McCain campaign. They have never –never — even hinted that Obama has “Muslim connections”. They have never made even a slight attempt to make his race an issue, despite this fourth repeat of this particular smear. Neither has the RNC nor any mainstream Republicans. In fact, the McCain campaign let go one staffer who only Twittered a link to a Jeremiah Wright video earlier this year.

If Obama wants to argue that some misdirected bloggers have made these kind of attacks, he might have a point. But by that standard, the Democrats have attacked Bristol Palin, smeared Sarah Palin about the maternity of her youngest child, and questioned the mental capacity of John McCain. If Obama wants to start making these kinds of accusations, then maybe he ought to get his own house in order first.

That’s not the only data point of desperation today, either:

Sen. Barack Obama ditched his normal languid cool today, punching back at Gov. Sarah Palin as he spoke with reporters in York, Pa, hotly defending his work as a community organizer. He said he assumes Palin “wants to be treated same way guys want to be treated, which means their records are under scrutinty. I’ve been through this for 19 months. She’s been through it, what four days?”

Obama’s hackles were clearly raised by Palin’s dismissal of his community organizing –a response to his earlier dismissal of her record as a small-town mayor. “Why would that kind of work be ridiculed?” Obama said. “Who are they fighting for?” The idea that community organizing is not relevant to the presidency, he said, just shows why Republicans “are out of touch and don’t get it.”

The Obama campaign was clearly on the defensive today, acknowledging how appealing Palin came across, and sending out surrogates hitting their talking points that Republicans have spent their time on attacks rather than substance.

Says the man who keeps calling John McCain the same as George Bush. There’s a word for a man who can dish it out but can’t take it. I’ll leave it to you to reach your own conclusions.

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Hugh Hewitt:

Friday, September 05, 2008

“Winning The Anti-Freeze Belt”

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 3:07 PM

My new Townhall.com column on another of the many “Palin pluses” is up.

If you’d like to learn more about Sarah Palin, subscribe to Townhall Magazine and get a free copy of Sarah.

UPDATE: The Times of London’s Gerard Baker and I talk about Sarah Palin here and here. Gerard has interesting background on the rise of Margaret Thatcher, which TygrrrrExpress will find interesting.

See also Freddoso on “Caribou Barbie.” (HT: RobinsonandLong.com)

From Hugh Hewitt:

“Thursday v. Friday: Set Piece Battle v. War of Maneuver”

Posted by: Hugh Hewitt at 7:51 AM The regular Monday guest post from Clark Judge:

Thursday v. Friday: Set Piece Battle v. War of Maneuver
By Clark S. Judge

Last week the nation witnessed two top-of-their-game presidential campaigns at work, campaigns as stunningly different as they were impressive — different in ways that told a great deal about each candidate.

On Thursday night the Obama campaign mounted show unlike any ever seen in a presidential election: a massive stadium filled to the top rows, a stage inside the stadium shooting off fireworks reminiscent of those as Beijing’s Olympic Bird’s Nest, rock star entertainment, and at the climax, an elegantly delivered acceptance speech marking a moment of true historic importance.

The extravaganza was entirely emblematic of the Obama campaign: painstakingly planned, flawless executed. If, other than metaphorically, politics were war, the Obama operation would be a worthy successor to the tank battalions in which the candidate’s grandfather served during the Second World War. It is a master of set-piece battles.

Over the past two years it has constructed the most productive fundraising machine in the history of American politics, assembled what is reputed to be an equally unparalleled ground organization and stage uncountable numbers of flawless events at which the candidate always delivers an inspirational speech. It has rolled relentlessly across the fields of political engagement, sweeping even to formidable Clinton operation before it. It may not show or need much imagination, but it has proven amazingly effective.

From BreitBart.com:

McCain, Obama tied in TV audiences

NEW YORK (AP) – As a television draw, John McCain was every bit the equal of Barack Obama.The GOP presidential candidate attracted roughly the same number of viewers to his convention acceptance speech Thursday as Obama did before the Democrats last week, according to Nielsen Media Research. It marked the end of an astonishing run where more than 40 million people watched political speeches on three nights by Obama, McCain and Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The Republican convention was the most-watched convention on television ever, beating a standard set by the Democrats a week earlier. Three times in two weeks, political speeches were watched by more people than the “American Idol” finale, the Academy Awards and the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics this year. “It clearly suggests that a great number of Americans think that who will be the next president is important and worthy of their time,” said Tom Rosenstiel, a former political reporter and director of the Project for Excellence in journalism. Television ratings throughout the primary season had already indicated an intense interest in the election, but viewers clearly were more fascinated in the Democratic contest between Obama and Hillary Clinton than the Republican nomination fight. This week’s ratings, with an average of 34.5 million viewers watching the GOP convention over three days, proved people are becoming more interested in what the Republicans have to say. The Democrats had an average audience of 30.2 million over four days, Nielsen said. (More) Michelle Malkin: The Obamas and their “Public Allies” By Michelle Malkin • September 5, 2008 03:40 PM Investor’s Business Daily investigates Barack and Michelle Obama’s cozy relationship with the radical “Public Allies.” Read it. The piece dovetails well with my “community organizer” column today and the recent piece I did on Obama’s government proposal for subsidizing “social entrepreneurship” and the Democrat Party’s hidden Soros slush fund — as well as all the terrific work Stanley Kurtz has done on Annenberg/Ayers. The more you get to know about the far left-wing friends of Barack Obama, the tighter you need to hold onto your wallet.