Whining

Election Central pointed out that on MSNBC today, Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., who is a national co-chair for Obama's campaign, suggested Clinton's "tears" the other day may not have been genuine. He came to this by noting that she had not cried during Katrina. To make it even more disgusting, he through in some sexism by saying that she was crying about the way she looked. This is what he said:

We saw something very clever in the last week of this campaign coming out of Iowa, going into New Hampshire, we saw a sensitivity factor. Something that Mrs. Clinton has not been able to do with voters that she tried in New Hampshire.

Not in response to voters -- not in response to Katrina, not in response to other issues that have devastated the American people, the war in Iraq, we saw tears in response to her appearance. So her appearance brought her to tears, but not hurricane Katrina.

The video is here:



I would be fuming if one of the talking heads said this, but to hear a member of a campaign say this -- especially a campaign that claims it rises above such bickering -- is appalling to me.

Obama's speech last night was wonderful. He was respectful, and he sounded like his campaign would forget about New Hampshire and move on. Instead, one of his top campaign chiefs goes on TV and acts like an 8-year-old. This is not the "politics of hope."