Barack Obama Pals Around With…Someone

It’s kind of incredible how increasingly desperate the McCain campaign gets day after day. Whether they’re seizing on hoaxes about staffers being attacked by scary black men or throwing their own Vice Presidential candidate under the bus, this campaign, both in the polls and in the public eye, just seems to be circling the drain before ultimately being pulled under on Tuesday.

And then we get this. Michael Goldfarb, a McCain campaign spokesman, was on CNN with Rick Sanchez (who LOVES Twitter, by the way), talking about the manufactured Khalidi controversy. What you don’t see in the above video is a wonderful moment where Rick Sanchez lectures Goldfarb on journalistic ethics (i.e., if you tell someone you’ll keep something confidential, you honor that promise or lose all credibility), but the real meat came after that when Goldfarb made the assertion that Obama has a history of hanging around with anti-semites…and then couldn’t name one. Sanchez kept asking, and Goldfarb just kept repeating “I think you know who we’re talking about.” Sanchez, as you can imagine, was baffled.

Really? These are the people the McCain campaign is going to put on the air? Who the hell is this guy? They send him on a nationally televised show to talk about an issue, but he displays little to no understanding of said issue beyond some campaign-issued talking points. I mean, for God’s sake, he got lectured by the anchor and was unable to say anything in response! Beyond that, he made a blanket statement and was then unable to back himself up beyond an incredible juvenile retort that he repeated ad infinitum.

This would be like if Obama responded to accusations that he’s a socialist by standing in front of a mic and repeating “I KNOW YOU ARE BUT WHAT AM I” endlessly. It’s stupid, and it doesn’t make sense.

And who was Goldfarb talking about? Who is this mystery anti-semite? If you ask me, it sounded like yet another thinly-veiled attempt to portray Obama as a muslim. “You know [what anti-semites] I’m talking about.” Who, Michael? Osama bin Laden? Even if you had made some outrageous assertion, it would have been less embarrassing than doing your best Pee-Wee Herman impression on national television.

Right after the interview, a comment from a viewer scrolled along the bottom of the screen that said “Michael Goldfarb just made up my mind for me. He looked so juvenile.” I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of people watching thought the same thing. If Michael Goldfarb is the best this campaign can do, they may be in for a very, very long election night.