The Great Uniter?

The "Great Uniter"....that is what the media lovingly dubbed Barack Obama in 2008.  However, as many of us Chicago natives know, what the media showed us was not reality.  Is it any surprise that we had to turn to a European news source to get this story (HT Carol Platt Liebau).

"Change We Can Believe In", a key Obama campaign slogan, was meant as a slur against Mrs Clinton's personality, intended to highlight how she "couldn't be trusted or believed in when it comes to change", according to a memo seen by America's New Yorker magazine.

"She's driven by political calculation not conviction, regularly backing away and shifting positions ... She embodies trench warfare vs Republicans, and is consumed with beating them rather than unifying the country and building consensus to get things done. She prides herself on working the system, not changing it," the October 2007 memo added.

The memo was written by David Axelrod, a political adviser, as Obama's nomination campaign stalled against Hillary Clinton during the height of the 2008 Democratic nomination process.

Rather than fight out their differences in policy, Mr Axelrod told Obama that the only way to secure a defeat was to attack Mrs Clinton's character. The goal was to paint Obama as the "authentic 'remedy' to what ails Washington and stands in the way of progress" and to discredit his main rival in the process.

Emphasis mine.  We saw that when he was running against Mrs. Clinton and against John McCain.  Care to guess what we will see again this year?

"It was a character attack," Neera Tanden, who acted as policy director during Clinton's race for the presidential nomination, said. "I went over to Obama, I'm a big supporter of the President, but their campaign was entirely a character attack on Hillary as a liar and untrustworthy. It wasn't an 'issue contrast,' it was entirely personal."

As I said before, this campaign is not going to be about policy, it's not going to be about record...because Obama does not have a record that anyone would want to run on.  There is only one way type of campaign that he can run....a character assassination campaign.

It does not matter if the GOP puts up Mother Theresa or Christ himself - the President will run an extremely negative campaign.  And the Democrats and the media (pardon the redundancy) are going to carry the President's water.

So much for civility......