October 24, 2008

Obama Tries to Bluff His Way Through a Crisis Once Too Often

Obama's got a great strategy for dealing with something he has done that turns out to have been a huge mistake: just keep claiming it wasn't a mistake.

Remember when Joe Biden said Hillary would have made a better V.P. and everyone was thinking Obama would have to dump Biden and ask Hillary to come on board? Obama responded by saying he was glad he'd chosen Biden as V.P. And it worked - the Biden controversy went away. But there was a cost: MSM had to start making itself look absurdly foolish by ignoring all of Biden's subsequent mega-gaffes, including '3 letters: J-O-B-S', and this week's monster gaffe, in which Biden alerted the world that the election of a President as weak and inexperienced as Obama, would surely invite a crisis when he was inevitably tested by foreign leaders.

Or how about the Surge, which Obama claimed would not work - which Obama opposed - but which in fact turned the tide and enabled us to have victory at last in that conflict? Obama nonsensically kept claiming that the surge didn't work. But again it came at a price: MSM had to stop asking him about the surge in order to cover for him - providing another example for the public to see how in the tank the MSM is for Obama.

Then there was Obama's famous statement at a Democratic debate that he would personally sit down across the table from Ahmadinejad, without preconditions. You can see Obama saying this on video here.  Obama for months claimed that wasn't a mistake:

...the high point of Ahmadinejad's week must have been Friday night, after his return to Iran. That was when John McCain and Barack Obama met in Mississippi for their first debate, and Obama reiterated once again his determination to meet Ahmadinejad "without preconditions" if he is elected in November.

Now we have a new disastrous mistake from Obama: his comment about "spreading the wealth" is hammering the Obama campaign, as it exposes Obama to voters everywhere as a socialist, confirming what his life-long ties with a seemingly endless stream of Marxists, socialists, and America-haters already told us: that Obama is a socialist who is opposed to capitalism and a strong, successful America. And Obama is trying to deal with it in the same old way: by claiming it wasn't a mistake. Here you can see him claiming he's not sorry he said it, in an interview with Good Morning America:

GMA: Any regrets that you -

Obama: No -

GMA: No, not that you met Joe the Plumber, but the fact that you said, "spread the wealth."

Obama: Not at all.

By denying that something this big, this well-known, this widely-reviled is a mistake,  Obama just digs himself deeper into the same hole.