Thin Spin

"So I think that this is an example of, frankly, how the political debate can distract us from what is really at issue and that is: How are we going to create a just and fair society where people are getting a fair shake? And that’s why I’m running this campaign."

Hmmmm. So Obie thinks people discussing his description of working class white Americans as bitter clingers to guns and religion, racism and xenophobia as a result of their frustration....is a distraction from the "real" issues.

Have you noticed how often he does that? Claim that anything he doesn't want to discuss is a "distraction".

And since his rhetoric is chronically empty, vague and vapid, I can only suggest that a discussion of "distractions" might render some "substance".

Indeed, it usually does. And it's exactly at those points that Obie puts his foot in his mouth saying something he really means, and finding it extraordinarily unpopular. And I have a feeling he's not used to that. Have you noticed how much time he's spent defending his associates' words, his wife's words, his own words? Indeed each episode usually has three parts:

1) He/they say something stupid, lying or racist
2) He says something even stupider while trying to spin the original quote
3) He calls the attention paid to either a "distraction"

And then they all arrogantly sweep on to the next blunder, exclaiming how eloquently he explained away the previous one.

I wonder how many times this pattern will repeat itself before November.

The Gunslinger