What Dummkopfs appeared today on ABC's "This Week" show, talking across the round table about Pastor Wright and Obama's inevitable great demise.
George Will proclaimed, with all his over-rehearsed sounding wisdom, that Obama should have headed this off earlier. "He knew this would be a problem at least one year ago. Why did he wait until it was too late?"
And everyone put on a blank stare and agreed with him, -- especially Mark Halperin and George Ossifiedopolis.
But below the fold you'll see why the timing was perfect.
If you think about it this is the perfect time to confront the issue.
The delegate math has never been so favorable to Obama. There will never be a more opportune moment than this: Hillary would never have had any more difficult chance of catching up with him than now, before the few remaining states have voted.
It would have been very dicey to confront the issue before the great bulk of the Democrats knew anything at all about Obama and would have had so little reason to form the friendships they have already created with him.
We're at the beginning of a six week lull in voting before the PA primary. There is plenty of time to neutralize the issue with speeches and rallies and position papers and TV interviews and self designed introductions to the voters of PA; especially now that everyone is curious and are giving him their full attention. He can talk about his faith his devotion to God and country, his conversion to Christendom, How he got his name etc., etc. The public is all ears now.
Waiting until the last primary is over would be problematical, especially if Hillary is still trying to smear him in the eyes of the Super-delegates. But today he has ample time to recover; he can use any further wins in the few remaining primaries to make her attempts to bluster and blab sound just like the squeaking of a mouse.
She has also played into his hand by laying low too long, trying to seem human again by not joining with that Fox Noise chorus, hoping the chorus roasts him instead. But the chorus does not matter. Only she, he and the Democratic voters of Pennsylvania matter on this issue for the next five weeks, and maybe the voters of North Carolina too. If she tries to strike now, this long after the iron was hot, she will just sound contriving and attempting to confuse things again.
Waiting until after the convention would only allow McCain to spring those videos at his own best, most opportune time. He would do so when there is the greatest need to suck out the oxygen; probably just at the moment when Obama has almost trapped McCain and is about to slam him on the particular issues Barack wants the voters to be thinking about. Now the issue will have become old and cold, even to the Republicans who are watching right now with baited breath, here in the middle of March.
I used to watch "This Week" religiously because it is only on once in my locality and plays simultaneously with the other Sunday morning political shows, some of which repeat in the evening. Over the last four months or more I have been channel hopping back and forth mostly with "Meet the Press". So I missed this round-table discussion until a few hours ago, when another diarist steered me toward a link to it this afternoon,
Now, having watched and listened to that low level intellectual rubbish, I think I will just forget about the Ossifiedopolis Show and only watch Tim Robbins from now on.