The World Around You

Once again, McCain demonstrates he has no positive message, as his closing argument seems to be to call Obama names that have no basis in reality.

Obama spokesman Bill Burton dismissed the interview as “a fake news controversy drummed up by the all too common alliance of Fox News, the Drudge Report, and John McCain, who apparently decided to close out his campaign with the same false, desperate attacks that have failed for months.”

“Obama did not say that the courts should get into the business of redistributing wealth at all,” Burton said in a statement.

The Obama campaign also referred to comments made by Cass Sunstein, a Harvard law professor who is advising Obama, to the Politico website. Sunstein said Obama was discussing redistribution in a narrow legal context of whether the Supreme Court would create rights to education and welfare, and was actually taking the conservative position that those rights should be won through legislative action and not the courts.

Yes, heaven forbid we discuss the heart of what he was REALLY talking about and not what some people believe he said because they aren’t lawyers who deal in civil rights issues. I don’t know how many times we have to say it, but no one seems to be able to answer the charge, if he’s really who the McCain folks tell you he is, than why is the man who McCain says he wants as his Secretary of the Treasury (Warren Buffet) supporting Obama?

McCain attacks Obama on redistribution – The Boston Globe.

Those who support Obama are finding it almost impossible to believe that the race is really over, 11 days out, but Politico has the most powerful report yet, that even those within the McCain campaign believe it.

One well-connected Republican in the private sector was shocked to get calls and resumes in the past few days from what he said were senior McCain aides – a breach of custom for even the worst-off campaigns.

“It’s not an extraordinarily happy place to be right now,” said one senior McCain aide. “I’m not gonna lie. It’s just unfortunate.”

“If you really want to see what ‘going negative’ is in politics, just watch the back-stabbing and blame game that we’re starting to see,” said Mark McKinnon, the ad man who left the campaign after McCain wrapped up the GOP primary. “And there’s one common theme: Everyone who wasn’t part of the campaign could have done better.”

“The cake is baked,” agreed a former McCain strategist. “We’re entering the finger-pointing and positioning-for-history part of the campaign. It’s every man for himself now.”

When people are running for the exits and pointing fingers, it’s a sure sign that it’s over…it doesn’t mean anyone should give up, on either side, but President Obama is looking more and more likely every day.

Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad – Jonathan Martin and Mike Allen and John F. Harris – Politico.com.