In the Credit Where Credit’s Due department, be sure to give a listen to a weekend podcast from NPR’s Scott Simon. He first takes on Barack Obama over his reversal on public financing while expressing support for the system, calling it the “we have to destroy the village to save it” rationalization. Simon saves his big guns for Obama’s accusation that the McCain campaign would conduct race-based attacks on his candidacy. Simon reminds Obama that McCain has a biracial family himself, which created the impetus for a rather notorious smear in 2000 — and accuses Obama of manufacturing a new smear with his accusation.
“Can someone raise questions about the experience of a candidate who’s only been a US Senator for four years and who does not have a prodigious legislative record without being stained as a bigot?” Not according to Team Obama, as NPR figures out.
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