I gotta laugh. Obama's too black, not black enough. Too skinny. Too arrogant. Too uppity. He's not patriotic. He's too smart. He's not smart enough. He's too inexperienced. He's racist. He's sexist. Now, he's just not tough enough. I can't wait until the media shines a spotlight on McCain. I'm GETTING BORED.
WaPo: Such attacks have raised worries among Democratic strategists -- haunted by John F. Kerry's 2004 run and Al Gore's razor-thin loss in 2000 -- that Obama has not responded in kind with a parallel assault on McCain's character. Interviews with nearly a dozen Democratic strategists found those concerns to be widespread, although few wished to be quoted by name while Obama's campaign is demanding unity.
"Democrats are worried," said Tad Devine, a top strategist for Kerry who thinks Obama must stay on the high road. "We've been through two very tough elections at the national level, and it's very easy to lose confidence."
Obama's latest ad may be his toughest yet, using words and images to link McCain to President Bush and concluding: "The original maverick? Or just more of the same?"
But Democratic strategists said that it is nothing like the character attacks by McCain, and that the response could be far nastier, perhaps raising McCain's ethical scrape in the Keating Five savings and loan scandal, mocking his family wealth and designer shoes, or highlighting his age. After McCain economic adviser Phil Gramm suggested that the United States has become "a nation of whiners," Democratic strategists said Obama should have immediately started an ad blitz.
Have a little faith, people. Obama is not Kerry and he's not Gore. Nothing against either of those guys, but Obama is a different candidate.
