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Friday, September 19, 2008
Chicago-Style Politics Goes National
Senator Obama’s purported ability to bring people of all political persuasions together in the peace and harmony of socialism, under the collectivized political state, is now revealed as a rapidly crumbling faux front. Senator Obama’s handler David Axelrod, veteran of Chicago’s dirty-tricks politics, sharpens the knife.
Read Peggy Noonan’s Why It’s Getting Mean.
Lots of signs of the new darkness. Mr. Obama’s army is swarming, blocking lines when Obama critics show up for radio interviews. A study out Thursday said the Obama campaign has become more negative than the McCain campaign. There is the hacking—no one at this point knows by whom—of Sarah Palin’s personal email account. From Mr. Obama himself, a new edge. He tells an audience in Elko, Nev., to “argue” with McCain supporters and “get in their face.” Bambi is playing Chicago style. No doubt everyone around him has been saying, and for some weeks now, “Get tough.” But this is not how to get tough, and it does not reflect a shrewd reading of what the moment demands. People want depth, not ferocity.
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