A NEW KIND OF POLITICS...OH REALLY?

Responding today to criticisms of his groundbreaking support of properly inflated tires as a means of saving gas, Barack Obama had this to say of the McCain campaign:

“Now two points, one, they know they're lying about what my energy plan is, but the other thing is they're making fun of a step that every expert says would absolutely reduce our oil consumption by 3 to 4 percent. It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.”

Now usually I would simply brush this off as common campaign rhetoric, but I can’t do it this time, I just can’t. I can’t do it because over the past few days it has been Barack Obama and his surrogates who have been indignantly complaining about the negativity the McCain campaign is supposedly beginning to push. They have said that classifying their dear leader as a celebrity on the level of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton is a shameful return to “dirty politics” and “negative campaigning.” They say Barack Obama resents such bullying and will always be the candidate who takes the political high road. He is the candidate of change and he will never resort to this kind of disrespect and mud slinging. Barack Obama himself has said: “We've got to run a different kind of campaign. So we're not going to go around doing negative ads. We're going to keep it positive. We're going to talk about the issues."

So I guess saying that your opponent “take[s] pride in being ignorant” is a positive message. Funny, seems pretty disrespectful and condescending to me.

Folks, this man is a fraud, a hypocrite and a liar. He has heralded himself as something he is not and it’s about time the American people realize it and stop bowing at the altar of Obama. He is not a “new kind of politician” and he is not the “candidate of change.” He is a radical liberal ideologue, political opportunist, and inexperienced lawmaker who will do anything to gain power and wrest his agenda on the American people…his track record, personal background and rampant flip-flopping (for lack of a better term) proves it. This man must not win in November.