Don't think of the elephant in the room... [View all]

[kentuck]

This is basically what the Republicans are saying when they complain that President Obama is making the killing of Bin Laden "political". In effect, they are the ones making the issue political.

And they are doing it in a very sophisticated way. It has the fingerprints of Frank Luntz and/or Karl Rove all over it. They are playing psychological games with the American people.

By accusing the President of making it "political", it somehow minimizes the significance of his leadership and achievement. But the President doesn't have to make it political. Just the very fact that it happened makes it "political". That is a reality.

However, the Republicans are very adept at taking the most positive issues of their opponents and turning them into a negative. That is what they are attempting to do by accusing the President of being "political" about the anniversary of the killing of Bin Laden.

For example, if you say "Don't think of the turban on Mitt Romney's head", then you tend to think of the turban on Romney's head. That is the game the Republicans are playing. And they are very good at it.

Will it succeed? I doubt it, because this is a different time and people are more aware of the killing of Bin Laden than they were of John Kerry's Vietnam war record. I think the Republicans are too smart by half.

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