As a Jew, I am not in love with any candidate mistaking one concentration camp for another.
On the other hand, when the Republicans have to try to turn Obama calling his great uncle his "uncle" and who recalls him suffering depression after being part of the group liberating Buchenwald and not Auschwitz into a major issue...
desperate.
When they find out his great uncle wasn't there when Buchenwald was liberated or was never depressed after he returned home, have them call me.
It's ironic that I am breaking down language and intent so often these days - as that is where the story of New Media vs Traditional Media lives - and yet I find this so meaningless. For the record, I also find McCain's inability to get Shia and Sunni right to be overblown as well. Yes, it would be good for The President to talk about world affairs with clarity. But it's not the stumbles, it's the ideas that matter.
And I think there was something to Clinton's use of assassination as a reference point... but not because she was calling for something horrible, but because she has so consistently baited the media into talking about a subject meant to hurt an opponent and taken no responsibility for it. I do think this was intentional... and sloppy. But Keith Olbermann went too far on this one for me.
Anyway... if this and "bitter" and Rev Wright are the big guns that McCain can come up with in this campaign, it's already over.
I won't even get far into Bill Clinton's latest meltdown... except to note that it's sad... and that there has been endless reporting about both sides pressuring/pushing superdelegates to come on board for months now. Bobby Kennedy, Watergate (cover-up)... what's next, an effort to suggest that Obama will send inflation soaring and get hostages taken in Iran, a la Carter?
Read the complete post at http://www.mcnblogs.com/thehotblog/archives/2008/05/desperate_times.html