Obama's foot winds up in his golden mouth--again

Contributed by: filbert Wednesday, June 04 2008 @ 09:52 AM CST

Glenn Reynolds[*1] noticed this . . . Obama, in St. Paul last night, said this[*2] :

John McCain has spent a lot of time talking about trips to Iraq in the last few weeks, but maybe if he spent some time taking trips to the cities and towns that have been hardest hit by this economy -- cities in Michigan, and Ohio, and right here in Minnesota -- he'd understand the kind of change that people are looking for.

The only problem is that McCain has already done, in April, exactly what Obama mocks him for not doing--the "Forgotten America Tour"[*3] :

McCain's trip, which seems a mix of Clinton's "listening tour" in her 2000 Senate race in New York and President George W. Bush's efforts to portray himself as a "compassionate conservative" in his presidential campaign the same year, is to take him to Appalachia; the economically depressed steel town of Youngstown, Ohio; and the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, the area hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

Oops.  But dammit all, it was a good line.  Hope!  Change!

This is the basic problem with Obama:  behind his deep baritone voice, his soaring rhetoric, his golden tongue, his lofty rhetoric about moving beyond partisan politics, is a man who is quite willing to play the same "evil heartless Republicans don't really care about you" politics that we've seen since the New Deal and what's more, to distort his opponent's record to do so.

The more things CHANGE! the more they stay the same.

Medary.com - Obama's foot winds up in his golden mouth--again
http://www.medary.com/article.php/20080604105214802

[*1] http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/020052.php
[*2] http://drudgereport.com/flash7.htm
[*3] http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/22/america/22mccain.php