Stop the Smears: American Issues Project

The Obama campaign is calling for proscecution of The American Issues Project for airing this ad about BO:

Obama's general counsel Bob Bauer and Harold Simmons, the man funding the ad, are in quite a pissing match.  This is more of the strategy that spawned "Stop the Smears" and other rapid reponse efforts.  The Obama Campaign is hitting back at every attack, and hitting with all it has, however much a waste of resources and a distraction to the campaign.  McCain is successfully exploiting this preoccupation with hitting back by continuing many small attacks, during the convention.  As Bill Kristol observes, this appears to be getting into the heads of the Obama people and causing them to veer off message.  This weakness in the Obama campaign appears to be a combination of learning from the mistakes of the Kerry campaign and an  expression of the candidates personal sensitivity.  He has a "glass jaw" that was revealed early on by Maureen Dowd's 'big ears' comment and his response.  That he and his people really can't get "above politics" just shows how fragile that message and his ego are.  

[h/t Jim Green]

Comments

[aelfheld]

McCains guerilla tactics should soon have Obama's head spinning faster than Linda Blair's.

If this qualifies as the 'politics of personal destruction' (a phrase constructed to protect the Left, to whom all politics are personal), then I'm all for it.