Wordless Wednesday: Despite Obama's Fingerpointing, McCain Comes Out on Top

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was the first of the two debaters to go negative Tuesday night, his opening salvo against Republican candidate John McCain coming less than two mintues into the debate in just his fourth sentence:

this is a final verdict on the failed economic policies of the last eight years, strongly promoted by President Bush .... and supported by Sen. McCain ...

Obama, who has vowed to put an end to divisive politics has clearly broken that promise over and over in TV ads, debates and the campaign trail ... and he's not even president.

Here is a sample of Obama's "end the divisive-ness" rhetoric from last year and this year:

Washington Post, Feb. 5, 2007:
"Over the next year of a primary and the next two years leading to the election of the next president, the campaigns ... the campaigns shouldn't be about making each other look bad, they should be about figuring out how we can all do some good for this precious country of ours ... for every attack ad that questions the character or honesty or patriotism of somebody, there are real patriots fighting and dying in Iraq whose families deserve to know how we plan to bring them home. "

Washington Times, March 5, 2008:
"We knew that the closer we got to the change we seek, the more we'd see of the politics we're trying to end -- the attacks and distortions that try to distract us from the issues that matter to people's lives, the stunts and the tactics that ask us to fear instead of hope."

NBC TV (WMAQ, Chicago), March 27, 2008:
"Part of what I hope to do in this campaign and as president is to get us beyond these divisions that distract us from our common challenges and our common opportunities and move the country forward."

I guess promising to change the divisive tone of Washington politics isn't a promise important enough for Obama to keep now that he's in the lead.