Apropos En Passant

I hate this kind of nonsense:

McCain foreign policy adviser Randy Scheunemann today on a conference call noted that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, said he didn't want to make Osama bin Laden a martyr.

"The last I checked, a martyr is someone who dies for a cause or someone who is killed for a cause," Scheunemann said. "It seems that Senator Obama is ruling out capital punishment."

The Obama campaign says Scheunemann's interpretation is dead wrong.

Political Punch

Let us pray Scheunemann is not this stupid.  If he isn't seriously calculating that killing Bin Laden will, indeed, make a martyr out of him in the eyes of many Muslims, then I have to seriously question McCain's judgment choosing such a fool to serve as his foreign policy advisor.

Or is he just attempting to score cheap political points?  Is that better, or worse?

I'm not impressed with the way the McCain camp has been operating.  Another example of this nitpicking is making an issue of Michelle Obama's patriotism.  I had hoped we might finally have a real campaign on real issues.  If this is the way this campaign is going to proceed, I'm going to tune out real quick.  And vote Obama.

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