The Sunshine Empire

The conservative approach to battling the rock star following for Senator Barack Obama has been hap-hazard, and contradictory to the point of absurdity.  Initially, many conservatives began the email whispering campaign insisting that Obama was a secret Muslim.  An Islamic Maxwell Smart if you will.  They stated that since he had an Islamic sounding middle name that he must be somehow a terrorist and a Manchurian candidate that would enslave us.  Then the Reverend Jeremiah Wright came along and the narrative changed.  Suddenly Obama’s Christian pastor was to extreme and needed to be focused on, and he was not in fact a Muslim at all.

Another point of attack was the fact that Senator McCain had visited Iraq more often than Senator Obama.  But when Obama scheduled an extensive foreign trip, and the press took notice and decided to cover it, suddenly Senator Obama was running a publicity junket and was showboating for the press.  No mention of what Senator McCain’s vaunted lazy stroll through a Baghdad market with the entire 101st Airborne roughly five feet of him was.  With the newfound foreign policy attention being directed to the Obama campaign, the McCain campaign has decided to take the tact of stating that Obama now can’t admit that “the surge” worked.  The implicit message is, if we had trusted him then, we’d be screwed now.  But one argument that is lost in that vein of logic is, if we had listened to John McCain in late 2002 and early 2003, we’d be stuck in the fifth year of an intractable and needless war based on pure unadulterated lies.  The sad thing is, the American people did listen to McCain and we are in an intractable and needless war based on pure unadulterated lies.  Now as the Jack Nicholson’s Joker said in 1989′s Batman, “Hubba hubba hubba, money money money, who do you trust?”