David Axelrod has released a memo this morning that points to the tough and substantive strategy that will guide Team Barry from this point forward. “We will respond with speed and ferocity to John McCain’s attacks and we will take the fight to him,” vows the brains of the Obama campaign, “but we will do it on the big issues that matter to the American people. We will not allow John McCain and his band of Karl Rove disciples to make this big election about small things.” You know I love it whenever Team Barry butches up. But still, what are the big issues of the day that the Obama campaign will be addressing in this critical spell? The campaign’s latest add provides a hint. The AP reports:
The big issue of the day, therefore, is that John McCain wore ugly suits. In 1982! Thank heavens the Obama campaign has determined to yank this campaign towards more substance. In many private conversations in recent days, I’ve noted the intellectual exhaustion that currently characterizes the Obama campaign. With the hope/change thing having run its course, Obama and his team quite literally have nothing to say. If John McCain were Barack Obama, he’d spend the next three news cycles whining “Ageism!” in regards to the Obama campaign’s new spot. But as we all know, John McCain isn’t Barack Obama. Instead, I’m quite confident that McCain and his team will revel in the pathos that this ad unwittingly reveals.
