Barack Obama's Glass House

IBD ^ | February 25, 2008

[Kaslin]

Politics: Barack Obama accuses John McCain of corruption as his partner in a Chicago real estate deal goes on trial. In both Illinois and Washington, D.C., Obama is no stranger to those trying to buy influence.

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Campaigning in Ohio last Saturday, Obama accused presumptive GOP presidential nominee McCain of having lobbyists as top aides and said "many of them have been running their businesses on the campaign bus while they've been helping him."

Obama's charge against the man who co-authored the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform bill with Wisconsin Democrat Russ Feingold because he thought there was too much money in politics comes on the heels of a flimsily concocted story on the front page of the New York Times suggesting without facts that McCain had an affair with an attractive female lobbyist for whom he did political favors.

This pure coincidence, of course, delineates a line of attack that both Obama and the media that fawn over him are likely to use this year — a revival of the "culture of corruption" strategy to replace the "failed Iraq policy" strategy that died after the surge succeeded and political reconciliation became a reality in that country.

It also suggests how unwilling the mainstream media are to examine the record of the former Illinois state senator who says, among other things, that McCain's health care plans reflect "the agenda of the drug and insurance lobbyists who back his campaign and use money and influence to block real health care reform."

[vrwc54]

Good Post