The Stench of Desperation

Obama in 2008: "If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things."

August 2, 2012:




August 7, 2012:



August 14, 2012:




Later in the day, Biden attempted to "walk it back", but did so in a very dishonest way.  He said: "And I'm told that when I made that comment earlier today in Danville, Virginia, the Romney campaign put out a tweet. You know, tweets these days? Put out a tweet, went on the airwaves saying, 'Biden, he's outrageous in saying that,' I think I said instead of 'unshackled,' 'unchained.' 'Outrageous to say that.' "  

That was an extremely clumsy cover up for the outrage of telling a crowd supporters, mainly black, that Romney and Ryan wanted to put them back in chains.  It was a blatant attempt to paint the republicans as racists who would return blacks to slavery.  Biden's explanation did nothing to revoke the meaning.


If there is any doubt that Obama-Biden wanted to send the slavery message, just look at Obama's response: "Most folks know that's just sort of a WWF wrestling part of politics, it doesn't mean anything, just fills up a lot of airtime."

I think Romney responded correctly when he said: “The president’s campaign is all about division and attack and hatred.”  “The president seems to be running just to hang onto power — I think he’ll do anything in his power to try to get re-elected.”  “I think comments of this nature sink the White House just a little lower."  “The comments of the vice president as I heard them ... were one more example of a divisive effort to keep from talking about the real issues.”

Obama's response: "We're going around the country, talking about, ‘How do we put people back to work? How do we improve our schools? How do we make sure that we're producing American energy? How do we lower our debt in a responsible way?' And I don't think you or anybody who's been watching the campaign would say that in any way we have tried to divide the country. We've always tried to bring the country together,"

The frantic desperation and deceit coming from this campaign is amplifying with each passing week.  They see the polls.  They know they are behind and trending lower.  They know that without a colossal slip by the republicans, they will lose in November.

How much damage are they willing to do to the office of the president and vice-president before they go?  It seems there are no limits.