Rove: It’s all about Obama

In what seems to be a weekly event, Karl Rove takes potshots at Barack Obama from the relative safety of private life in this morning’s Wall Street Journal ;

Many candidates have measured the Oval Office drapes prematurely. But Barack Obama is the first to redesign the presidential seal before the election.

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…Mr. Obama, in his first national TV ad rolled out Friday, claims credit for having “extended health care for wounded troops,” citing the 2008 defense authorization. That bill passed 91-3 – but Mr. Obama was one of only six senators who didn’t show up to vote. This brazen claim underscores the candidate’s thin résumé and, again, his chutzpah.

Mr. Obama has now also played the race card, twice suggesting in recent weeks that Republicans will draw attention to the fact that he’s black. Who is unaware of that? Americans overwhelmingly find it a hopeful, optimistic sign that the country could elect an African-American president. But they rightly want to know what kind of leader he might be. They may well reject as cynical any maneuver to discourage close examination of him by suggesting any criticism is racially motivated.

The candidate’s self-centeredness has been on display before. Having effectively sewed up the Democratic nomination, he could have agreed to seat the Florida and Michigan delegations (states Hillary Clinton had carried). While reducing his lead by 50 to 55 delegates, it would not have altered the outcome. But Mr. Obama supported cutting these battleground-state delegations in half. At a time when magnanimity was called for, the candidate decided he’d strut.

It’s become a sport among bloggers to guess the next person or group will be tossed under the Obama campaign’s bus. It seems no one is safe, not the Clintons, not even Michelle is safe since she’s been taken from the frontlines and placed in the role of a backdrop decoration.

Apparently, the primary voters in Florida and Michigan aren’t safe from the view of the undercarriage of Obama’s bus, either. How many others will be sacrificed and martyred just so we can have a Black president.

It seems to me that if the Democrats wanted a Black President so bad, they would have nominated someone just a little bit qualified, just a little bit more interested in bringing all Americans together – beyond just mouthing empty platitudes.