Grasping at straws or going down swinging?
Over the course of this week, I have read several articles that describe the Republican candidate for Vice President as ‘going rogue’, ‘going off topic’, or ‘pushing her own agenda’. I’ve read many of these reports and perhaps because I’ve never seen one her stump speeches in its entirety, I’ve fallen victim to the media’s ability to provide selective reporting, but I’ve been given the impression that Mrs. Palin is pushing the envelope on maturity.
Today she accused Obama of having ties to an extremist professor who she says was a high-ranking PLO spokesperson. Her quote:
“It seems that there is yet another radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama going back several years,” Palin said at an event in Bowling Green, Ohio.
“This is important because his associate, Rashid Khalidi … in addition to being a political ally of Barack Obama, he’s a former spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization.”
From CNN’s FactCheck: The Verdict: Misleading. While Khalidi eight years ago hosted a political fund-raiser for Obama, the two men strongly disagree over the Israeli-Palestinian issue and there’s no evidence of a continuing political relationship.
Of course we all remember a few weeks ago, she brought up Obama’s acquaintance William Ayers, claiming that he ‘pals around with known terrorists’.
She seems to be choosing some pretty strong language to get across a moot point. Being this late in the campaign process, spouting off these types of not-even-half-truths, to me, seems less of an educational ’so you know’ discussion and more of a ten year old’s approach when caught doing bad. “Oh yeah!? Well he hangs out with the bad kids!” Give us some credit, please. We’ve just endured YEARS of campaign rhetoric from both parties really going at their own during the primaries, and now here we are in the homestretch – we’re over the childish tactics. The undecided voters need to hear how her team is going to be better than the other guys and she’s surely not giving them that.
These seem to be such cheap, unvetted thoughts that, in my opinion are taking away any credibility she had earned through her short time on the campaign. I’m afraid she’s hurting herself, maybe not so much crying wolf, but just plain distracted. From the quotes being given to the news outlets, many of the McCain campaign staffers are not happy with the way she has been going off topic and getting fast and loose with the talking points.
I understand that she has to play the politics, but I think she would do her campaign more good by sticking to her team of Mavericks and keeping her hockey team inline.
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