"Mystery! That's what they want to shroud Obama with. The guy's been out there in the open for four years now. We have been watching his every move, grabbing his every sound bite, watching everything in his public record. That's not the point. What the geniuses around John McCain want voters to do is to worry about something they can't determine and could never determine from the facts. They want to create a mystery that the imaginative voter can connect, like a string of dots: from "palled around with a terrorist," to his middle name, to his donor list that might just include some foreigners. They're out to say that Barack Obama is friendly to the people now threatening our country." Television Journalist Chris Matthews served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Swaziland in the 1960's.
Chris Matthews writes: What we're seeing here is a McCain campaign that knows it's on a losing course; that knows it needs, desperately, to change the subject
McCain campaign mudslinging to distract
Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008 5:17 PM by Cathy Finkler
by Chris Matthews
I have been watching and studying politics for a long time. What we're seeing here is a campaign that knows it's on a losing course; that knows it needs, desperately, to change the subject.
The subject right now is the economy. And it's killing the incumbent party. If you ask someone if they like the direction this country's heading in, only a fraction, a slice of voters will say, "Yeah, keep it up."
So what do the wise guys around John McCain tell him? They tell him that he either goes at his rival, personally, or he loses. He needs to change the topic from "What do you think of the way things are headed in this country" to "Who is this guy Barack Obama?"
Mystery! That's what they want to shroud Obama with. The guy's been out there in the open for four years now. We have been watching his every move, grabbing his every sound bite, watching everything in his public record. That's not the point. What the geniuses around John McCain want voters to do is to worry about something they can't determine and could never determine from the facts. They want to create a mystery that the imaginative voter can connect, like a string of dots: from "palled around with a terrorist," to his middle name, to his donor list that might just include some foreigners. They're out to say that Barack Obama is friendly to the people now threatening our country.
That's the dirt, and using this technique of creating a mystery in our minds, they want you, the voters to throw the dirt.
