The Obama campaign’s desperation to win has led to its having become a gaffe machine in recent days.
It’s been like a greatest hits with Vice President Joe Biden making his infamous “chains” gaffe and Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz being unable to get her story straight about Priorities USA’s political affiliation.
First, Biden goes off last Tuesday making what appeared to be a racially insensitive remark, saying the GOP wants to “unchain Wall Street,” but that it wants to “put y’all back in chains.”
Second, the gaffe monster (Biden) goes off during speech the following day in Blacksburg, Va., to say we are still in the 20th century regardless of the fact we have been in the 21st century for 11 years while talking about General Motors. Not surprising from a guy who once told a wheelchair-bound state Senator to stand up.
Where a Republican candidate would have been derided as a stupid idiot, Biden gets a pass, as columnist and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan observed over the weekend.
Third, you have Wasserman Schultz falling off message a week ago after telling Fox News Sunday that she was unaware of Priorities USA’s political affiliation.
“Of course I know that the Priorities USA is a Democratic-affiliated Super PAC,” Wasserman Schultz said, doing a 180-shift from her earlier remarks. “The point I was trying to make was that that ad was produced by a separate organization, an organization that we don’t coordinate with and we have nothing to do with.”
Fourth, you have Barack Obama’s “you didn’t build that” gaffe from last month, which the Romney campaign has been milking for all it is worth.
And lastly, you have Obama Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter trying to explain why celebrity gossip media are just as important to the political process as political media.
The President has not had a press conference in two months, but has instead opted to field softball questions from outlets more interested in the cult of Obama than in substantive election issues like the economy.
“I don’t think that they’re more important, but I think they’re equally important,” Cutter said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. “I think that’s where a lot of Americans get their news. And I think the president’s going to continue doing that.”
Gotta wonder what is in the water over at Obama campaign headquarters.
