Perhaps Obama Needs to Bloat His Hands, Too

Perhaps Barack Obama needs to bloat his hands, too. That’s the conclusion I reached after reading about the latest tell-all book written by someone who knows O.J. Simpson and after reading Richard Baehr’s latest blog post about the Democrat presidential front-runner.

While promoting his tell-all book, How I Helped O.J. Get Away With Murder: The Shocking Inside Story of Violence, Loyalty, Regret, and Remorse, author Mike Gilbert recounts how he helped his former friend O.J. Simpson wiggle out of murder charges by suggesting how to bloat his hands so they would not fit the notorious bloody gloves. It was, after all, an ill-fitting glove that gave jurors the perception that Simpson was not responsible for the 1994 murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. As a result, the football star-turned actor/broadcaster walked away from the court room a free man Oct. 3, 1995.

Beneath the headline — Obama campaign senses the glove fits — of his well-written piece published today at American Thinker, Baehr points out that the Obama campaign seems to know they have a problem — their man is perceived as soft on terrorists, and way too accommodating to the world’s worst thug regimes. He goes on to make several worthwhile points before concluding with this:

My sense is that the Obama camp knows they have several problems on their hands: the defection of many traditional Democratic Jewish voters to John McCain, and a series of statements by Obama that suggest to a broader swath of the electorate that when it comes to foreign policy, the Obama candidacy is an amateur production waiting to go on stage and Obama comes off very weak willed to our enemies (much as the Carter Presidency was and did). So expect the thin-skinned ultra sensitivity evidenced by the campaign today to pop up again and again the next few months. And of course, we know what the New York Times will think.

I recommend you read Baehr’s piece and, if you’re bored and/or have money to toss around, you might as well get Gilbert’s book, too.

-- Bob McCarty Writes