Wolking’s World

Obama broke his own promise and questioned McCain’s devotion to his country yesterday.

On the same day, the Obama campaign released a new ad making fun of McCain for not being able to write emails, despite the fact that more than one media report has documented that McCain has trouble typing because of the injuries he sustained as the hands of the Vietnamese while he was a POW.

A few weeks ago, Obama spokesman Mark Bubriski wrote in an official campaign email to supporters that “Palin was a supporter of [MSNBC analyst] Pat Buchanan, a right-winger or as many Jews call him: a Nazi sympathizer.” Turns out Palin was never a Buchanan supporter and that Buchanan is hardly a Nazi-sympathizer.

On four separate occasions Obama has accused the McCain campaign of racist smears. Last week when George Stephanopoulos pressed Obama on this point, Obama couldn’t name a single specific instance and had to admit it was only a handful of McCain supporters, not the campaign.

Thus, McCain’s team fired back strongly today, saying the Obama campaign is

cynically running the sleaziest and least honorable campaign in modern presidential campaign history. His discredited ads with disgusting lies are running all over the country today. He runs a campaign not worthy of the office his is seeking.

Wait a second. Oops. That quote is actually from Obama’s national press secretary Bill Burton, and he’s talking about John McCain.

Of course, Mike Allen at Politico couldn’t bring himself to recognize such a dishonest, hypocritical smear from the Obama campaign in the title of the article, choosing the more neutral headline “Campaigns shout it out” instead.

Here’s McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds’ response to the incredible arrogance and disgusting, cheap rhetoric of the Obama campaign. Mike Allen says he “thundered.” Right …

“During the event, Barack Obama showed zero restraint in the ferocity of his attacks despite the wreckage in the gulf and his running mate’s cancellation in reaction to it.

It says a lot about Barack Obama’s judgment that while his campaign canceled his appearance on ‘Saturday Night Live’ and his running mate stayed home, Obama went ahead and delivered a series of scathing personal attacks. Today’s attacks mark a new low from Barack Obama.