Liberals and the Attack Game

THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter

Clarence Page, the Chicago Tribune's liberal columnist, chimed in yesterday on the officially slated Question of the Week -- "Why isn't [Barack Obama] further ahead in the polls?" -- with, it seemed to me, a singularly noteworthy observation.
 
Noteworthy, not so much for what Mr. Page did say, but what he didn't say, or, to be even more oblique in this introduction, just how he didn't say it.
 
Page tendered a passel of "big reasons" why Obama isn't blowing his antediluvian opponent of ancient wrongheadedness clean out of the waters. In toto, these reasons ranged from the utterly outré (such as the McCain camp's diversionary playing of the "skinniness" card) to the soundly familiar, the most familiar of which, of Bookmark/Search this post with: buzzflash | delicious | digg | technorati Technorati Tags: P.M. Carpenter

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