Boomerang Trifecta

This I was willing to attribute to sheer boneheadedness.  But this is goes beyond mere rank stupidity and harkens right back to Barack Hussein Obama's base instincts:

Obama’s campaign has written the Department of Justice demanding a criminal investigation of the American Issues Project, the vehicle through which Dallas investor Harold Simmons is financing the advertisements. The Obama campaign — and tens of thousands of supporters — also is pressuring television networks and affiliates to reject the ads. The effort has met with some success: CNN and Fox News are not airing the attacks.

Obama has also launched his own response ad, directly addressing Simmons’ attempt to link him to domestic terror.

The project is “a knowing and willful attempt to violate the strictures of federal election law,” Obama general counsel Bob Bauer wrote to Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Keeney last week in a letter provided to Politico. Bauer argued that by advocating Obama’s defeat, the ad should be subject to the contribution limits of federal campaign law, not the anything-goes regime of issue advocacy.

Bauer’s letter called on the Justice Department to open “an investigation of the American Issues Project; its officers and directors; and its anonymous donors, whoever they may be.”

“This is a sad ploy to circumvent the First Amendment by a campaign who has no arguments with the merits of our ad. It’s the classic maneuver: If you can’t win on the merits, file a lawsuit,” said a spokesman for the American Issues Project, Christian Pinkston, who said his group’s non-profit status allowed it to participate in elections as long as it does a majority of policy work, which it plans to do.

A criminal investigation?  Of AIP's officers, directors, and all its donors?  Because Obama doesn't like the content of AIP's Ayers ad?  Wow, using the police power of the state to silence political opponents - sounds awfully....totalitarian, does it not?  The ad doesn't "advocate Obama's defeat"; it asks a very salient, commonsensical question that logically should apply to ANY individual who seeks the nation's highest office: Do we know enough to elect Barack Obama?

The point of the ad is to raise doubts about Bill Ayers' "educational" protege; about his real views, his character in trying to duck and dodge this "questionable connection," and his judgment in forging and then dishonestly defending this relationship in the first place.  And just as the McCain campaign recognized and exploited, AIP used the thin-skinnedness of Obamanation to effortlessly manipulate the Great Half-Black Hope into doubling down on all of the above and proving the point of the ad to a far greater and broader extent than the spot could ever have managed by itself.

What's that old axiom?  "Methinks thou dost protest too much."

Which leads to the question of all those other "questionable connections," the Golden Child doesn't want anybody to know about, like the one with ACORN:

The never-ending audacity of Senator Barack Obama is a continuing reminder that a man is known by the company he keeps.

The latest matter involves Mr. Obama's presidential campaign paying more than $800,000 to an offshoot of the scandal-ridden, leftist Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) for services the campaign now says it "mistakenly" misrepresented in federal reports.

The ACORN subsidiary, Citizens Services Inc., did "get-out-the-vote" work instead of the polling, advance work and major event staging the Obama campaign had first stated in its Federal Election Commission finance report during the primary.

ACORN's scandals include rampant vote fraud in a dozen states and harboring a seven-figure embezzler on their board of directors.  Ah, doesn't seeing hard-left "community activism" in action just warm the cockles of your heart?  And wasn't that Barack Hussein Obama's first career?  Sounds like he took a large piece of it with him on the way up the power ladder.  Bet it'll come in handy if this election is yet another photo-finish.

Ensign Ed sums it up nicely:

Why would a supposed reformer hire ACORN as a partner for a campaign that promises to end business as usual?  As the song goes, you can tell a a man who boozes by the company he chooses — and you can tell volumes about a politician comfortable with the likes of ACORN, Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, and William Ayers.

If there are any disclosures that would actually aid the election of Barack Hussein Obama, he'd better start making them as fast as he can.  Because as it stands, we already know more than enough to never let him near the White House, even as a tourist.