Bareknuckle Obama

If the president has many more weeks like this past one he should have little difficulty winning reelection. From wash. post's "The Fix":

"Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney said late Friday that the attacks by President Obama on his record at Bain Capital were “ridiculous and of course beneath the dignity of the presidency.” Matt Rhoades, Romney’s campaign manager, took it a step further, demanding that Obama apologize for the allegations — calling the charges “so over the top that it calls into question the integrity of their entire campaign.”"

I thought it was speaker boehner who did all the crying on the gop side?

"How did the Obama campaign respond? “Stop whining,” counseled former White House chief of staff and current Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. A new ad funded by Obama’s campaign, meanwhile, features Romney singing “America the Beautiful” while stats are shown on screen about outsourcing under Romney and his Swiss bank account — among other things.
The Obama response amounts a collective sticking out of the tongue — or another gesture involving your hand — at the Romney campaign. What Obama’s campaign is saying with the level of rhetorical aggression — and the unapologetic reply to the controversy it has caused — is that it is willing to push the boundaries and do so unrepentantly.
The shoe has often been on the other foot."

At last, the fighter we wanted, needed to kick out the shaky supports big money has built around their deathcult of greed and irresponsibility shows up. Can the Obama campaign keep it up until November?

If there is anything that is deadly to a campaign according to Dr. Drew Westen, it is the appearance of weakness entailed by demanding an apology. There is nothing unethical about these new ads and nothing factually incorrect in the president's speeches about the opposition.

It is about time the Democrats stopped acting like battered spouses and stopped worrying about offending these weasels.