It appears that many of the old stories concerning Obama are starting to have a cumulative effect and are now getting more ink.
In particular the willingness of CBS's Dean Reynolds to suggest that Obama may start getting less then positive coverage in his piece on Obama's campaign: stating that what comes around goes around while complaining about campaign scheduling and the odor of Obama's airplane (Obama stinks? Racism there?). Could this be a prelude to a barrage of negative coverage?
That would seem to be indicated as the "stories" concerning William Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, and Father Pfleger seem to be getting a surprising amount of media attention.
Then there is the article from the Washington Times citing Obama's trip to Iraq "Obama tried to sway Iraqis on Bush deal
In private conversations on troop presence, candidate pitched delay".
At the same time the Bush administration was negotiating a still elusive agreement to keep the U.S. military in Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama tried to convince Iraqi leaders in private conversations that the president shouldn't be allowed to enact the deal without congressional approval.
Mr. Obama's conversations with the Iraqi leaders, confirmed to The Washington Times by his campaign aides, began just two weeks after he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination in June and stirred controversy over the appropriateness of a White House candidate's contacts with foreign governments while the sitting president is conducting a war.
Some of the specifics of the conversations remain the subject of dispute. Iraqi leaders purported to The Times that Mr. Obama urged Baghdad to delay an agreement with Mr. Bush until next year when a new president will be in office - a charge the Democratic campaign denies.
Mr. Obama spoke June 16 to Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari when he was in Washington, according to both the Iraqi Embassy in Washington and the Obama campaign. Both said the conversation was at Mr. Zebari's request and took place on the phone because Mr. Obama was traveling.
However, the two sides differ over what Mr. Obama said.
"In the conversation, the senator urged Iraq to delay the [memorandum of understanding] between Iraq and the United States until the new administration was in place," said Samir Sumaidaie, Iraq's ambassador to the United States.
This has an appearance once again of trying to turn the debate away from the economy and get things back on national security an increasingly difficult task for the right as we are in the middle of what CNBC analysts have been calling a "cascading crash".
So if that won't work then how about turning the story to voter fraud and the evils of ACORN with coverage of the ruling in Ohio with the injunction brought to stop the opening of absentee ballots? How about making this campaign about voter fraud.....anything but the economy.