One-Man War

For the - what is it by now, the fourth? - time in this campaign, Barack Hussein Obama is vowing to "take the gloves off" and REALLY get vicious with the now ascendant-and-pulling-away John Sith McCain.  Why?  Because his base told him to:

Oh, yes, trying to repeatedly slam McCain's nuts in a drawer is REALLY going to EXEMPLIFY and REINVIGORATE his "post-partisan/unifier/New Politics" gimmick.  Instead of....oh, I don't know, TAKING McCAIN UP ON HIS TOWNHALL DEBATE A WEEK offer in order to SHOW THE CONTRAST that supposedly would ROCKET Messiah back to the top.  And which Barry has been, and continues to, duck like it was Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers or Tony Rezko.

Are there ANY grown-ups in Obamanation?  Can they truly not realize that the volcano of filth they've been bazooka-ing at Sarah Palin has been the catalyst for the marked shift in momentum to Team Sith?  And they're going to do it now when Sailor is already overplaying the victim card on behalf of his slandered running mate?

And the best first salvo they could come up with is THIS?:

Crack at McCain's age - check.  Ignorant, mendacious economic populism - check.  Grafting Sailor onto Bush - check.  Nothing new here.  So where's the scorched earth, Barry?

Oh, come ON, you can't be referring to the "can't send an email" stuff, can you?  How is that a devastating personal assault?  For that matter, what's the connection between computer literacy and understanding the economy at either the microscopic or macroscopic level?  Hell, my parents are actively technophobic, and they understand economics better than YOU do.

But wait!  I may have to stand corrected; perhaps this ad IS a devastating personal assault after all:

McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain's encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He's an avid fan - Ted Williams is his hero - but he can't raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.

This is from a Boston Globe story - from eight years ago.  Perhaps The One's disciples warriors have never heard of Google or Lexus-Nexus?

Oh, but it gets better.  Not only has Team Hussein made fun of a disabled veteran's disability, but they neglected to avoid jumping to the conclusion that just because McCain DOESN'T use computers directly doesn't mean he doesn't know how they work - or doesn't send and receive email:

In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate's savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. "She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious," McCain admits.

Jonah Goldberg translates the boomerang of this line of attack, if Maverick were chowder-headed enough to launch it:

[H]ow stupid is it for the Obama campaign to claim that McCain is unqualified to be president because he can't grasp cyber-security issues based on the fact he has never sent an email when the McCain campaign can just as easily say Obama can't understand first order national security issues because he's never fired a rife, flown a plane, commanded men in battle, or faced an enemy? I mean which prepares someone to be commander in chief better, hitting "send" on AOL or fighting a war?

It's like that episode of Taxi when when Wheeler and Banta were about to come to blows when Wheeler remembered that Banta was a professional boxer.  Wheeler begs off the fight, but Banta won't hear of it.  So Wheeler offers to hit himself in the gut, which he does.  Banta retorts that that isn't good enough.  "In the face," he instructs.  Which would really hurt because Wheeler is an asipring actor, and his good looks are his stock-in-trade.  But he's about to go through with it when Alex Rieger intervenes, and then looks back over his shoulder and exclaims, "I can't believe I'm trying to break up a fight between one guy!"

I know, I know, "conservatives shouldn't start getting cocky".  And yet Barack Hussein Obama's campaign becomes more of a clusterbleep with each passing day.  At the rate he's going, he can start shooting a movie entitled Honey, Who Shrunk The Messiah? right after Election Day. 

It's not like he's going to be overseeing a transition, or the Senate needs him to function, or anything....