Cracks Showing: Michael Scherer of Time Calls Team Obama Petty

The McCain campaign would much rather have the story about phony and foolish diversions than about the future. . . . We have real problems in this country right now and the American people are looking to us for answers, not distractions, not diversions, not manipulations. -- Barack Obama, Norfolk, Va., September 10, 2008

Apparently they were just words!

...But here's the rub: If you believed what Obama said during the campaign, then Carville is dead wrong. Republicans in Congress are not the only losers. The American people also lose. At a time of unprecedented threats to the United States, a time of financial collapse, bank failures and record layoffs, at a time when the credit crisis has not been solved, and the stock market is in free fall, at a time of stagnating wars, rising terrorism in Pakistan and growing nuclear potential in Iran, the White House has done the easy thing. It has asked the American people to focus their attention not on solving the problems, but on a big-mouthed entertainer in Florida. This may be smart politics. But it is also the same petty strategy that John McCain employed during the presidential campaign, the one that our new president promised to rise above.

Even funnier is the sheer meltdown as Obama supporters go ballistic over criticism of the President. I am not sure if we add this to the Maureen Dowd, David Brooks, Buckley level of disappointment, but we are getting there. What next the realization that the entire Hope and Change express was a myth to put a smiley face on a machine politician?