There’s steel in Obama’s response to The Dividers
I’ve heard plenty of fear in partisan Democrats all year. Obama can’t outcampaign the best campaigners in the party in the past 30 years. He has. Then it was fear that he had fatal flaws because of people he’d socialized with or prayed with. Turns out those troublesome relationships are nothing more than speedbumps, not roadblocks. Breaking bread with someone is not the same as swinging massive public lands deals that enriched landholders. Average citizens spend time with people they disagree with, after all.
Then it was: Obama can’t fight the GOP attack machine. Well, guess what?
As I’ve insisted for the past year, Democrats need to overcome their insecurities about our candidates’ electability. Our candidates were among the most talented and ethical group we’ve had in many years. I also predicted $4 a gallon and the recession a year ago, insisting the economy would be the gorilla on the back of the GOP, right next to that older gorilla of Iraq. Couple that with the weakest GOP slate of candidates in …. okay, eight years. Electability is the GOP’s problem.
Obama’s got game and he’s not about to get mugged by the snake-oil fear-the-bogeyman tactics of Bush and McBush. The one thing Team Obama learned well from the previous Democratic president is to fight back quickly with the strongest steel of all, because the GOP has not been able to manufacture any metal as strong as Obama’s wielding now: the truth.
