Add Ed Rendell to the growing list of Democrats who don’t like the Obama campaign’s attacks on capitalism.
“I think they’re very disappointing,” Rendell said of the ads attacking Bain. “I think Bain is fair game, because Romney has made it fair game. But I think how you examine it, the tone, what you say, is important as well.”
Obama’s attacks have exposed the fact that this president and his campaign don’t know much about capitalism. Or fact-checking.
As for Booker, “I admire him,” Rendell said. “People in politics should tell the truth. He could have qualified it better, he could have framed it better, but if you’re in this business, none of us like negative ads.”
Rendell walked the line of criticism carefully enough that he probably won’t have to release his own hostage video.
With each passing day, it becomes brutally clear this administration doesn’t know much about anything.
That may be why I can’t get that old Sam Cooke song, Wonderful World (Don’t know much about history) out of my head.
Surely one of the talented PJMers should be penning new lyrics. It could become the Obama 2012 theme song.
Of course Bain is fair game in this epic political struggle. Team Mitt should be forced to answer for those years. If they are confident that Romney’s stewardship was a good thing in the aggregate then this should not pose much of a problem. I agree, however, that the relative ease with which the Bain attacks have been batted down so far shows that Obama’s dream team is hopelessly out of their element on this subject. The dueling steel company ads illustrate this difficulty quite well. Having someone on board who actually knows how a business operates might be helpful; Wall Street money-manipulators and ARRA-financed crony capitalists do not count.