How Obama has played the Wright/Rezko thing perfectly..... [View All]

Released his "scandals" during a dead period when they would do the least harm. This morning, more people are talking about the injustice of ASU being left out of the NCAA tournament in favor of Arizona than are talking about Rev. Wright.

It's a classic campaign tactic... release one's dirty laundry on YOUR schedule, not on your opponents'. This was too late to help Hillary on March 4, but too early to help her on April 22. It was WAY too early to help McCain.

Wright was going to blow up at some point in the campaign... and this was the absolutely best time for it to happen.


Secondly... Hillary's campaign is making a critical mistake with respect to tax returns. They are allowing the Obama campaign to do the drumbeat for a month before they say they'll finally release them.... just one week before PA.

This ensures that the bulk of the news cycles in the final week before PA will be about either A) the contents of Hillary's tax returns or B) the swirl of controversy about how she broke her campaign's promise to release them by April 15.

The narrative in the week leading up to PA will be all about the Tax Returns, no matter whether Hillary release them or not, and also no matter the contents. Since the Clintons' income rose from $5 million to over $30 million in 2006, it will look bad no matter the source of the increase.

Wright/Rezko will be a more-than-a-month-old distant memory.


Well-played, President Obama.