Congressional Republicans, Afraid of Obama, Throw Hail Mary Pass to Try to Keep Him From Nomination

[EV_Ares]

(((This poster has it right I think from the Daily Kos on Hillary and the Republicans. However, you cannot create a controversy where as in this case there is none without the media's help can you.)))
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Barack Obama's comments about the bitterness of Americans let down by their government has prompted derision from the Clintons, John McCain and the Congressional Republicans, who are all saying roughly the same thing. Is it good for Democratic politics to have message discipline between Hillary Clinton and the GOP?

The motives behind the attacks on Obama are also similar. Of course Clinton is trying to deny Obama the nomination. She can't win, as is obvious to anyone who can figure out the delegate math, unless Obama drops out. So this is just another pathetic attempt at what the journalist Elizabeth Drew, writing about Clinton's tactics in this campaign, calls "molehill politics." If Obama is eventually seen as unelectable, then he'll have to step aside and, apparently according to the Clinton team, Clinton will become the nominee. At this point, that's her only way of winning the nomination.

So molehill politics it is, trying to create a controversy where there is none, trying to distort Obama's statements, and trying to deny the truth in what he said in favor of pushing sunny nostrums about how people getting screwed by our economic system of the last 40 years are upbeat, optimistic and resilient (all while jobs leave their communities, their kids leave home for big cities or become soldiers because they can't afford to become students, homeowners and parents, and they feel the government hasn't done a damn thing to help them out).

The GOP, it appears, also wants to deny Obama the nomination. There's no short-term gain for McCain to jump on Obama's comments, so jumping only on Obama suggests he'd prefer to run against Clinton. Likewise, if the NRCC really thought Obama's comments were lethal, they wouldn't blow their shot now with a press release, they'd tie vulnerable Democratic candidates to Obama at election time, when it could sink their chances (just as being tied to Bill Clinton sunk a lot of Democrats in 1994, and being tied to Bush helped sink many Republican incumbents in 2006). They wouldn't waste their shot now.

Tapper has the correct interpretation of the NRCC's stated plan to use Obama's comments against several rural Democrats:

Link to the entire article & post:

http://www.dailykos.com/

[EFerrari]

1. There is no doubt who they want to run against. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

2. The vast BITTER majority of Americans disenfranchised by republicon homelanders

That's who they want to run against -- and run into the ground.

[FatDave]

3. It's been painfully clear for months

The surest way to get republicans to vote for McCain is to get them to vote against Hillary.

[bklyncowgirl]

4. This seems perfectly obvious to me. It also seems that corporate American may see Obama as a threat

It also seems perfectly obvious that Obama may have crossed some sort of line by referencing the anger of the American people. Americans are not allowed by the corporate media to be angry or bitter. We are supposed to accept our fate while the corporations move our jobs overseas and send our children to wars in places most of us never knew existed.

For a politician to say that people are angry is to step beyond the pale.

I am hoping that Americans can see through this but I'm afraid that old habits die hard.

[niceypoo]

5. If you think this is a hail Mary...

...you are in for a serious wake up call if he gets the nomination.

Coming from someone who still whines about stuff Bill Clinton said three months ago, I find all this just a tad hypocritical.