Who’s making the distractions the issue?

When Sen. Barack Obama recently launched his ‘anti-smear’ website that’s intended to seek out and shoot down whatever smear campaign he perceived was being run against him….I thought that was a good, organized and aggressively pro-active move. And I wondered if it was actually such a ‘best defense is a good offense’ move that maybe he was creating a diversionary focus. A focus on the personal characteristics he wanted to defend.

NRO’s Bench Memos caught on to this as something of a new habit by the candidate.