Emboldened by the Clinton Campaign, the GOP Slings Some Mud
The Republican congressman Steve King says Al-Qaida will be “dancing in the street” if Obama wins.Of course Obama who has worked on the Senate Foreign Relations Comity probable worries extremist very much considering he t ook so much heat from his democratic rivals for his hard-line on Al-Qaida in Pakistan. While he has always been against the war in Iraq Sen. Obama isn’t shy about talking about his willingness to peruse bin Laden and al-Qaida wherever they may be.
But the other more important reason that militants fear Sen. Obama is because his presidency would undermine the narrow narrative that paints the United Stats of America as the “Great Satan”. Clearly any of the people running for President are firm about their responsibility to protect and defend the people of US, and we are lucky for it. But I think it stands to reason that an Obama presidency could send a massage, a McCain or Clinton presidency would not, about all that is right about America. The first interracial, international person to hold the office would transform America’s image in the poorest and most turbulent parts of the world, where Al-Qaida seeks to take hold. That more than anything else is what the ”evil-doers” fear.
It goes without saying that Congressman King’s “dancing in the street” comment was reprehensible, as are any attacks that play on the American people’s fear, or that appeal to racism or sexism or ethnocentrism. But i think it is important to remember how we got here. During this drawn out democratic primary race, the blueprint for how to tear down Barack Obama is being written, not by Karl Rove but by the Clintons. This is when you want to be able to say to a Nader voter, “See this is why you have to vote democrat, only the republicans would stoop so low” but you can’t because it is a line of attack that the Clintons unleashed.
Obama responds to King’s comments
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