Somebody Tell Obama "No Snitching!"

They will have to come up with something better than this to declare Barack Obama non-presidential. This is supposed to be a big faux pas?

It’s a hard life for a young senator, trying to learn the unspoken rules of Washington in those rocky early days.

Take this week’s experience of Sen. Barack Obama, freshman lawmaker and presidential candidate.

He was visiting Iowa a few days ago, where his stump speech included a call for withdrawal from Iraq. At one of his campaign events on Sunday, Obama took a little swipe at Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), which he may have thought was polite because he never actually said the man’s name.

According to local press accounts, Obama said Democratic leaders would force House and Senate members to take vote after vote until they overcome Bush’s opposition to the withdrawal measure – noting that he wouldn’t name names but that there was at least one senator in Iowa who could help out.

Well, there’s only one senator he could have been talking about, and that guy thought Obama transgressed the gentlemen’s rules of the Senate.

“Let’s say pretty much that it’s not senatorial,” a miffed Grassley said in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. “And if you can’t be senatorial, how can you be presidential? In other words, I’m saying it from the standpoint that, generally, when you’re in another state, you don’t take pokes at a fellow senator.”

Oh, boo frickin' hoo! How is telling people - who came to see you - to take action in their state considered a swipe? That kind of mindset has a "no snitching" funk to it. Is there "no snitching" in the Senate too?

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