Where’s the Outrage from Democrats?

It takes a village. That’s what Hillary Clinton said, of course. But it applies to Barack Obama, too.

What I’m wondering is: Where’s the village of Democrats that should have been out there, defending him from attacks by John McCain last week?

Just look at what happened: McCain accused Obama of being more interested in winning an election than winning a war. McCain accused Obama of not caring for the troops. McCain said Obama was nothing but a ditzy celebrity like Paris Hilton. And McCain accused Obama of playing the race card.

Four ugly, nasty, personal attacks that have nothing to do with public policy and should have no place in a presidential campaign. And what did we hear from leading Democrats? Silence!

Where the hell were they? They all should have been out there: Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, Dianne Feinstein.
They should been out there condemning John McCain and demanding that he apologize and pull his personal attack ads from the air. Instead, by their silence, they seemed to be condoning such ads — and inviting more of the same.

It’s important that Democratic senators start taking on John McCain and calling him on his increasingly dirty campaign tactics.

Yes, Barack Obama should win this election. But he can’t win it alone.

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