Hypocrisy

    Hypocritical Obama campaign calls McCain dishonorable

    By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  September 15th at 10:54 AM  | 

    Barack Obama’s campaign demonstrated what shameless hypocrites they are. This morning, they went up with an ad calling John McCain dishonorable and sleazy. Yet on Friday, they released an ad that accused him of not using a computer (a strange accusation). When it turned out that his well-known mobility problem is part of the reason, what do they do? Change the subject by quoting him | Read More »

    Obama for a “new politics” as long as it helps him

    By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  September 9th at 09:17 AM  | 

    When the going gets rough, Barack Obama’s principles get going. Marc Ambinder notes that Obama is abandoning his previous statements on outside groups: There’s been a spurt of 527 activity on behalf of Sen. John McCain, but Barack Obama campaign has suddenly gone silent on the subject. That’s because, after of year of telling donors not to contribute to 527 groups, of encouraging strategists not | Read More »

    Obama campaign breaks anti-soft-money commitments

    By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  August 16th at 10:51 AM  | 

    The LA times has exposed a nice little bit of hypocrisy from Barack Obama’s campaign. His campaign is now directly soliciting high-six-figure checks from unions: In an example of the campaign’s late-innings effort, a very senior Obama campaign official called the political director of one of the largest labor unions about two weeks ago and asked for a $500,000 contribution on top of a similar | Read More »