Want President Obama to get down in the mud and wrestle around with these GOP pigs?

[NNN0LHI]

Better look for a different candidate if you do because President Obama is not ever going to do that. That is not Obama's style. Never has been. Because he understands that if he does do that they will both get covered in shit but the pig will like it. Here is an example of this:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/steinberg/7498310-452/hold-the-fork-obama-may-not-be-toast-yet.html

<snip>I keep thinking about a moment during the 2008 presidential debates. John McCain was trying to score a cheap political point by sinking his teeth into Obama’s efforts to get federal support for a new mechanism to project stars at the Adler Planetarium, replacing one that was 40 years old and crumbling.

McCain called it a “$3 million overhead projector” as if it were office supply surplus.

He brought it up three times, and I settled back, eager for Obama to dice him apart for being deceptive and taking a stand against teaching schoolchildren about the heavens.

Obama didn’t. He demurred. He let McCain have his little victory. I couldn’t understand it, not until the debates were over and Obama had beat McCain, who seemed mean, vindictive, almost unhinged. It began to dawn on me that perhaps Obama knew what he was doing, perhaps he declined to arm-wrestle McCain over his Adler canard because he was going for victory on more substantive matters, like a wrestler who doesn’t need to rack up easy points because he’s going to pin the guy.

I’m not saying that Obama is looking weak intentionally — that letting the Republicans knock his books out of his hands and kick them down the hall is part of some master plan to draw Republicans out and lure them into nominating the most fanatical among them to face him. Nobody is that smart.

But we should remember that restraint and deliberation is what got Obama this far.

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President Obama will be running his own campaign on his own terms. He is not going to let the GOP run it. That is just the way it is.

Don

[lamp_shade]

1. K&R. In a pissing contest everybody gets wet.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. As Napoleon is reputed to have said,

When your enemy is busy destroying himself, it is impolite to interrupt."

[Liberal Veteran]

3. It used to be called "taking the high road" or "choose your battles wisely".

There is nothing the GOP loves more than a bog a campaign down with minutia to avoid talking about anything important.

[HopeHoops]

4. Why bother. Let the pigs fight over the trough. Whichever one comes out alive, he can slaughter.

[savalez]

5. Well said. n/t