Whoa! In a speech today from Indepdence, Mo., home to Harry Truman, Democratic candidate Barack Obama gave one of his biggest organizers and supporters hell.
The candidate called MoveOn.org's ad about General Petraeus, whom the liberal group dubbed "General Betray Us," a "treadbare argument."
Obama was in Missouri to deliver a big speech on patriotism -- defending his own, calling bullshit on anybody who questions another's. Political Nanny can't wait to hear how MoveOn responds. After all, they endorsed Obama early in the primaries -- much to the dismay of Hillary Clinton supporters. And they've organized and raise gobs of people and tons of money on behalf of the candidate.
Hmmm. Quite a demonstration of this new politics stuff. Fall out and responses will no doubt be interesting.
Here's a little more of what he said (from The Hill):
The Illinois senator said politics too
often seems “trapped in old, threadbare arguments” that he called
“caricatures of left and right.”
This, Obama added, was “most evident during
our recent debates about the war in Iraq, when those who opposed
administration policy were tagged by some as unpatriotic, and a general
providing his best counsel on how to move forward in Iraq was accused
of betrayal.”
“None of us expect that arguments about
patriotism will, or should, vanish entirely; after all, when we argue
about patriotism, we are arguing about who we are as a country, and
more importantly, who we should be,” Obama stated in his speech from
Independence, Mo. “But surely we can agree that no party or political
philosophy has a monopoly on patriotism.”
Yes, but was he wearing a flag pin on his lapel?
[via Salon]
Photo: CNN.com
