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HEH: Obama?s McCarthyite Moment: Is it possible to be post-American and xenophobic at the same t?

By Glenn Reynolds

HEH: Obama?s McCarthyite Moment: Is it possible to be post-American and xenophobic at the same time? “Obama has become a master at the art of self-diminishment. He?s working his way down the food chain of targets for shrill attacks. He started at George W. Bush (who is out of office but at least a former president), descended to John Boehner (the House minority leader people have barely heard of), and finally alighted on Karl Rove (who is a political operative and pundit). . . . It should be taken as an axiom of political life that if your argument is about the other side?s advertisements, you?re losing. If your argument is about who?s funding the other side?s advertisements, you?re losing badly. And if your argument is about how foreigners might ? lack of evidence notwithstanding ? be secretly funneling cash into the other side?s advertisements, you?re losing in a historic landslide.”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 12, 2010 (boomark / email).