Even Sully blasts Obama on 'Dos Caras' ad

Andrew Sullivan hops off the Obama tire swing to take a hard shot at the “Dos Caras” Spanish-language ad Obama has.

Per Newsweek’s Andrew Romano, he accuses Obama of playing the race card:

“Playing racial politics this way is not what Obama promised to do,” he wrote yesterday. “Cut it out.”

From what I’ve read about the ad at various sites, it’s pushing some envelopes, at least.

Plus, in being wrong in implying a degree of McCain-Limbaugh closeness that doesn’t exist, it may actually bring into being what wasn’t before.

So, on that ground, the ad was also tactically stupid.

And, on Franklin Raines never advising Obama… well, Obama’s camp has called him more than once, Romano notes.

That’s another exemplar of why I blogged yesterday that Obama will be walking a fine line — and so will the DSCC and DCCC — in trying to politicize the series of financial bailout steps.

Romano does caveat all this:

Most of this stuff is child's play compared to the whole McCain-sponsored “lipstick on a pig” kerfluffle,

True, but Obama risks squandering the gift of being able to take the middle ground and call it the high ground.

That, in turn, moves the “Dos Caras” ad from tactically to strategically stupid, or potentially so.

In any case, to summarize Romano, Obama’s Post-Partisan Politics™ hasn’t lasted long now, has it?