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Obama Resorts to Old Chicagoland Dirty Tricks

Those familiar with Obama’s record already know that he won his first election by having his opponents — including his political mentor — tossed off the ballot. Apparently, he was trying to do the same to Sarah Palin.

According to Marc Ambinder, Obama’s surrogates were instructed to push the rumor that Republicans were so worried about Sarah Palin that she was in jeopardy of being scuttled.

One surrogate said he had been urged to bring up the example of Eagleton in order to seed the idea that McCain might consider dropping [her] from the ticket.

Admittedly, I’m connecting a few dots here, but why else would they want to seed that idea. Arguably, team Obama was trying to create an air of panic around Palin’s pick in the hope that, at best the Republicans would respond by actually letting her go (or that she’d withdraw herself); and if not that, at least it would frame her candidacy around the notion that she’s one gaffe away from political oblivion.

I claimed in an earlier post, that based on the way the press latched onto this idea and pushed it forward, it appeared like they were trying to make it come true. With what we know now, they couldn’t have been more blatantly carrying the Obama camp’s water.

First Alice Palmer, then Hillary Clinton and now Sarah Palin. Obama is building quite the track record of trying to keep women off of ballots.