The Hope Train is starting to take a turn for the ugly, folks. Admittedly, the way that Barack has gradually let his guard down and compensated with attacks at McCain and Clinton is a little disheartening. Isn't the candidate that is supposed to change all this mudslinging for good? Even if he's started to give a few good jabs to his opponents lately, at least he's making them worthwhile, like in this interview with CBS' Maria Gavrilovic. Besides stating that he feels the relentless assault from Hillary is "toughening me up", Obama further commended Senator Clinton on her tenacious campaigning, saying that she "has been a formidable candidate. You know there aren’t very many figures in American politics that can sustain 11 straight losses and hang in a race, and raise $35 million dollars and in that sense she’s unique.” Oh, dear. Is this what the media refers to as a 'dick move'? Because it's a dick move with integrity.
For the day's second contribution (sorry about the doubling-up again, sometimes life gets in the way of blogging), I'm posting this video, from Barack's youtube page. Doug is a man from Belleftone, PA, population 7,000, and he explains a little bit about his town and why he's voting for Obama. Awesome picture of his son, too. The reason I find this video hopeful (if a little depressing at the same time) is because I think that the media has successfully turned the state of Pennsylvania on its head, depicting it, as James Carville once called the state, "Pittsburgh to the west, Philadelphia to the East, and Alabama in the middle." This is an unfortunate misrepresentation of the state, to think that anyone who a.) attends church or b.) owns guns is automatically turning their back on Obama because of what he said. Barack is trying to make it up to American voters over the damaging comments he made last week, but it's affirming to see small-town Pennsylvania man who isn't going to be swayed by a single comment. This video was posted today:
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