Pushback, Backpedal

John Sith McCain has been hammering away of late on Barack Hussein Obama's stylistically totalitarian cult of personality and its stark contrast with his utter empty-suit-ism.  You'll note there has been no retreat from that line of attack because even the verbal gunfighters at the K-O Corral are acknowledging the truth of what is in those Sithian ad spots.

The handwringing of some about Sailor's "descent into negativity" is, it seems to me, being discredited by the reflexively hysterical leftie reactions it is provoking - including from the Golden Child himself:

“He’s spending an awful lot of time talking about me. You notice that?” Obama asked a crowd of just over one thousand seated in a university gym. “I haven’t seen an ad yet where he talks about what he’s going to do. And the reason is because those folks know they don’t have any good answers, they know they’ve had their turn over the last eight years and made a mess of things.”

“They know that you’re not real happy with them and so the only way they figure they’re going to win this election is if they make you scared of me,” Obama continued, repeating an attack from earlier in the day. “What they’re saying is ‘Well, we know we’re not very good but you can’t risk electing Obama. You know, he’s new, he doesn’t look like the other presidents on the currency, he’s a got a funny name.’”

The reason McCain is talking about Obama is because Obama's the perceived frontrunner.  The reason McCain is talking about Obama's stupendous conceit that he wears like a dagger-sized hairlip is because it is a metastasizing vulnerability that threatens to consume his campaign before he even secures his party's nomination.  The reason Obama is reacting by hiding behind his skin color is because (1) he knows McCain has wounded him, but (2) he doesn't think he's arrogant and (3) as a god, he believes he's entitled to engage in the "same failed politics" that he condemns McCain for practicing.

Rather....curious behavior for a post-partisan, post-racial, unifying, hope-inspiring, wipe-away-every-tear and fed-200,000-with-five-loaves-of-bread-and-two-fish Messiah.  ABC's Jake Tapper, though, used slightly stronger language:

Correct me if I’m wrong, but does it not seem as if Obama just said McCain and his campaign — presumably the “they” in this construct — are saying that Obama shouldn’t be elected because he’s a risk because he’s black and has a foreign-sounding name? ….

There’s a lot of racist xenophobic crap out there. But not only has McCain not peddled any of it, he’s condemned it. …

I’ve seen racism in campaigns before — I’ve seen it against Obama in this campaign (more from Democrats than Republicans, at this point, I might add)....What I have not seen is it come from McCain or his campaign in such a way to merit the language Obama used today. Pretty inflammatory.

There are at least a couple of lessons emerging from this latest Obamanational playing of the race card.  One, McCain's anal, scrupulous, bending-over-backwards vigilence to avoid any avenue of criticism that could remotely be construed as racist (Remember "Rev'rund" Jeremiah Wright?) has been rewarded with....accusations of racism.  So what did that freshly scrubbed conscientiousness get him?  And two, when it comes to the slightest time of difficulty, Team Hussein will wield race as public relations weapon of mass destruction, attempting to taint as "racist" - and therefore silence - ANY criticism of His Unholiness whatsoever.

Would you like to say, "Same old failed liberal politics," or should I?

It must have dawned on somebody in Barry's media shop, because it wasn't long before they were out there trying to spin their boss out of his latest self-inflicted jam:

Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said the senator was not referring to race.

“What Barack Obama was talking about was that he didn’t get here after spending decades in Washington,” Gibbs said Thursday. “There is nothing more to this than the fact that he was describing that he was new to the political scene. He was referring to the fact that he didn’t come into the race with the history of others. It is not about race.”

Uh-huh.

Congratulations, Chief Cornerstone; before all you were seen as is an arrogant, ignorant jackass.  Now you're seen as an arrogant, ignorant, brittle, thin-skinned, race-baiting jackass.  With delusions of godhood.

If you don't stop writing Lord Queeg's ad copy for him, his own ad people will die of boredom or golf, whichever comes first.