The Karl Rove playbook says that you attack a candidate’s strengths and try to turn them into weakness. If you can take the worst characteristic of yourself and make it look like the other person is the epitome of that characteristic, then you have won the daily double.

What must Clinton and McCain think are Obama’s strengths given their most recent attacks?

It must be Obama’s ability to be in touch with what is driving the voters. No matter what they throw at him, people are still voting for him.

He has been able to describe for the voters the elites’ divide and conquer strategy. These elite 0.1% of the wealthy have been able to grab more and more of the economic pie, and yet turn the rest of us against each other to fight for what is left. Obama has been much too successful getting people to finally realize what is going on.

It is exceedingly clever to accuse Obama of being what his accusers are. Who could know better how to describe an elitist than the elites who are making the accusation? If anyone knows condescension, Hillary Clinton and John McCain would know it best.