Photo credits: Associated PressIf the “undecideds” in the Democratic primaries need any help today in choosing between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama, I recommend reading Dana Milbank in this morning’s Washington Post. Milbank offers coverage of Obama’s news conference yesterday at a veterans’ facility in San Antonio as evidence the media has finally gotten around to asking him tough questions:
“It took many months and the mockery of "Saturday Night Live" to make it happen, but the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl.
“The day before primaries in Ohio and Texas that could effectively seal the Democratic presidential nomination for him, a smiling Obama strode out to a news conference at a veterans facility here. But the grin was quickly replaced by the surprised look of a man bitten by his own dog.”
After providing details of media questions to Obama about the Rezko trial that began Monday, his campaign’s secret meeting with a Canadian official, and his losing the Jewish vote, Milbank reports:
“Obama responded with the classic phrases of a politician in trouble. ‘That was the information that I had at the time. . . . Those charges are completely unrelated to me. . . . I have said that that was a mistake. . . . The fact pattern remains unchanged.’
“When those failed, Obama tried another approach. ‘We're running late,’ the candidate said, and then he disappeared behind a curtain.
“Before he beat his hasty retreat, however, Obama found time to assign blame for the tough questions suddenly coming his way. 'The Clinton campaign has been true to its word in employing a 'kitchen sink' strategy,’ he protested. ‘There are, what, three or four things a day?’
“Spoken like a man who had just been hit on the head with a heavy piece of porcelain.”
To read Milbank’s column in its entirety, go here.
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