Sunday, August 31, 2008
Barack Obama - Come Clean
I understand the aggressive defence tactic.
What I don't understand is what are they so worried about?...
What I don't understand is what are they so worried about?...
John Fund reports in the Wall Street Journal:
"'They're terrified of people poking around Obama's life,' one reporter told Gabriel Sherman at the New Republic. 'The whole Obama narrative is built around the narrative that Obama and [campaign strategist] David Axelrod built, and, like all stories, it's not entirely true.' The stakes are high. If the full story of Mr. Obama's relationship with Rev. Jeremiah Wright had been revealed before the Iowa caucus, he wouldn't have won.
Aides claim Mr. Obama 'has taken voluntary transparency steps' that allow 'his constituents, the media and his political opponents to fully examine him.' In reality, anyone questioning the approved story line is liable to be ignored, misled or even bullied. This isn't what reporters expected when Mr. Obama began campaigning for a 'new politics' that would bring honesty and openness to government."
