The Wrong Man With The Wrong Message, Once Again

Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime.

Once again we hear from the campaign man of wrongs.

John Kerry says Republican John McCain doesn't have the judgment to be president.

If that's the case, then it's probably a good thing McCain rejected overtures from Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, to form a bipartisan ticket and run with Kerry as his candidate for vice president.

Kerry had no kind words his Senate colleague Sunday, accusing McCain of poor decision-making on everything from backing tax cuts for the wealthy to making support for continuing the U.S. military presence in Iraq the centerpiece of his presidential campaign.

"John McCain ... has proven that he has been wrong about every judgment he's made about the war. Wrong about the Iraqis paying for the reconstruction, wrong about whether or not the oil would pay for it, wrong about Sunni and Shia violence through the years, wrong about the willingness of the Iraqis to stand up for themselves," Kerry, who supports Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, said on CBS' "Face the Nation."

"If you like the Bush tax cut and what it's done to our economy, making wealthier people wealthier and the average middle class struggle harder, then John McCain is going to give you a third term of George Bush and Karl Rove," the Massachusetts senator added, echoing an Obama campaign talking point.

Four years ago, we listened to his litany of wrongs, as he expounded upon all the supposed reasons that George Bush had been wrong and he had been right all along over the previous four years. Except for that brief period when he was wrong, but later became right. You remember...."I was for the war before I was against it."

So here we are four years later....and in the space of the last two weeks now, we have seen Obama surrogates stepping forward to supposedly take one for the team. First with Wesley Clark and now with John Kerry. And all that either have to offer is more mud and slander aimed at John McCain, while ignoring that their candidate of choice, Barack Obama, collects negatives with the regularity of lint in a belly button.

And the beauty of liberal politics? Is that when these Obama surrogates are called out on their missteps and over reaching character assaults against McCain? The man of the hour Obama, can simply decry their remarks obliquely and speak of his belief in unity behind vision and the change that he will bring to the political landscape.

When pigs fly.