Obama campaign unprepared for this debate
Mark has addressed some of Barack Obama’s campaign’s handling
of the “race card” issue. But it is worth watching the appearance.
It is astonishing that Axelrod was so unprepared for this:
Note that the closing argument that Obama has never proposed an
energy tax increase is laughably false with today’s
Politico story about funding a $1,000 rebate with a tax on
energy companies. Axelrod is just lying and making stuff up.
Totally unprepared and without a single compelling answer.
At the same time, Davis just drills away.
Real Clear Politics felt the same way:
I had the read the quotes from the AM Report posted
earlier today, but hadn’t watched the video until just now. This
was, to put it politely, not Axelrod’s best. He essentially
admitted that Obama was in fact making a reference to his race with
his “dollar bill” remarks and then – almost as if he recognized the
mistake and lost his train of thought – stumbled badly when trying
to answer on the question of energy and taxes.