The NPR candidate strikes back

One thing I’ll say about Barack Obama is that he keeps a promise. He promised to get more aggressive and he did.

Today’s Barrack money quote:

“Now is the time when we’re going to be laying out a very clear contrast between myself and Senator Clinton.”

That’s all fine and dandy my young colleague, but you’re six months too late. What were you waiting for?

Very clear contrast? How hard is that when it’s already black and white?

Barack is a nice man, an eloquent speaker, and attracts the crowds. I’ll give him credit for creating a 21st century chocolatized version of John F. Kennedy. Media folks love that.

The problem here is that I voted for the war in Iraq based on the best information we had at the time. Good or bad, that’s what I did. Hindsight is always 20/20 vision, right? Obama was against the war in Iraq, or so he says. He had the luxury of not playing in the big leagues at the time, otherwise his stance on the war might have been different.

But that was then and this is now.

Obama is running a great campaign as the National Public Radio candidate for the well-educated elite and effete. Remember, all this mud tossing at me is from the same guy who thinks Canada has a president (hint: Canada has a prime minister).

NPR listeners are the constituency of Senator Obama. They’ll listen. They’ll give money. They’ll cheer. Both of them. Every political battle has casualties. Obama is his own casualty. Too bad for NPR.