Spin Cycle

In a weekend filled with distortions over health care and distortions over distortion, Clinton and Obama and their respective campaigns seem to be competing over who is most lacking in maturity and most capable of behavior befitting a sandbox. This is healthy for the Democratic party?

These two ads pretty much capture the flavor. Obama doesn't take money from federal lobbyists, but does take it from state lobbyists, and people who work for lobbying firms. Hillary takes money from lobbyists. First, Hillary tries to make Obama look awful for taking money from the same people she does:

Then, Obama tries to make Hillary look awful for daring to make him look bad and for taking money from people who are only in a technical sense different from the people he takes money from:

Really statesmanlike stuff. Aren't you happy you don't live in Pennsylvania right now?