Barack Obama

Obama Advisors Warn Bloggers: Stop Snitchin’!

By J. Wesley Bush ⋅ April 16, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Pajamas Media has some great reporting on Obama’s comments about Pennsylvania. Read this excerpt and consider what it says about the mindset of the Obama campaign:

“And from the standpoint of Obama campaign figures, the material was gotten under false pretenses. One top Obama hand speaks of the campaign and candidate being blindsided. Fowler was a supporter, a contributor, an activist, a blogger, not a reporter. With the event closed to the press, Obama spoke with less care than he would have otherwise had he known a reporter, of any sort, was in attendance.”

THIS is a defense? He would have been less honest if he had known there were witnesses? That’s like a drug dealer getting popped for selling crack and then blaming the undercover cop for informing on him. Try using that one with the judge, Sparky. (Actually, given the coke-headedness of Obama’s background, maybe he should take this advice to heart. . .)

Here are three bits of advice for Obama’s “top hands”:

1. If your candidate is going to talk out both sides of his mouth, probably best not to ANNOUNCE that fact. If you’re going to portray your candidate as a “new kind of politician,” it’s probably best not to share this old-kind-of-politician seamy-underside stuff in your defense of him. As Pentamom said in comments: “I hope the McCain campaign makes note of this for use upon the first occasion on which the Obama campaign starts yowling about bringing ‘transparency’ to the White House.”

2. Stop Snitchin’ probably works great as a slogan in Chicago, but in Amish country, not so much.

3. By announcing that Barry says one thing in public and another to private audiences, it makes everyone wonder what ELSE he’s been saying in private. And people tend to assume the worst about politicians.

Just thinkin’ out loud here.