Total class, yessir. Obama’s grandmother Madelyn Dunham, that raised him, died last night. I’m actually reading Dreams From My Father, his book, right now. The book talks about her, in great detail, and often. They were incredibly close, and she was a second mother to him. Reading about this (final?) Republican attack during the campaign made me angry. I mean, really? Honestly?
Leaving no potential avenue of attack unexplored, the Republican National Committee has decided to bash Barack Obama over his October visit to see his ailing grandmother in Hawaii.
Of course the visit itself is not being criticized, but rather the way the campaign paid for the nominee’s unscheduled detour. On Monday afternoon, the RNC blasted out a complaint from the California Republican Party charging that “Obama for America violated federal law by converting its campaign funds to Senator Obama’s personal use” for the trip. That proposed issue for the FEC to investigate is one of five violations alleged by California Republicans in their complaint (which you can read in its entirety here).
McCain should tell the RNC to shut the fuck up. If they had an ounce of class or dignity they would simply have said, oh, I don’t know–”Would you mind just repaying the campaign the expenses?”–if they wanted to try to honestly make an issue of this. What next–if a close family member of his dies if he wins the election will they complain if he flies home on Air Force One? Where were the complaints when the Secret Service had to pay to protect and supervise the wedding of George W. Bush’s daughter in Texas? Hypocrites.
