Dillard and Obama: The Saga Continues

November 9, 2009

Steve Rhodes from the Beachwood Reporter weighs in.

Forget the messenger as Mr. Rhodes is decidedly left of center and apparently ill-informed as to the definition of socialism.

But his message as to Sen. Dillard’s newfound tough talk on Obama is on the mark.

With President Obama’s federal government takeover of health care now moving through Congress, Sen. Dillard correctly understands that his statement that Obama “would serve the country well” isn’t serving his campaign for Governor very well at all.

Instead of walking his error in judgment back in and, frankly, apologizing to GOP primary voters—which is what Sen. Dillard should do and should have done long ago—he comes up with yet a new tale to rationalize and obfuscate.

The unwillingness of politicians to admit a mistake or an error in judgment never ceases to amaze me. I have made plenty of mistakes in my 15 years in the Illinois political arena, things I would do differently had I the opportunity to do them again.

Sen. Dillard’s faux Paul Revere story warning us all about Obama the Socialist does nothing but compound the damage to his credibility that was done by his decision to do the commercial for Obama in the first place.

We’ve got one former governor in federal prison who never did anything wrong and other one on his way. There are few things more dangerous than a politician, particularly one with the power of a governor, who alternates between never having been wrong and never having been responsible when things go wrong.

Sen. Dillard, give it up and own up.