Republicans attack Obama's patriotism again. That didn't take long.

Just hours after I wrote about McCain's latest attack against Obama's patriotism, the Republican launched ANOTHER such attack on the one year anniversary of a similar attack. Gee, no one could have predicted that. Oh wait, Joe and I both did this morning. The Obama campaign's response to having their patriotism questioned?

“Instead of a real debate about how to move forward in Afghanistan, it’s clear that the Republicans would rather launch tired and old attacks to distract people from their record of completely failing to finish the fight against the Taliban and al Qaeda,” said Obama spokesman Hari Sevugan.

Uh huh. And here's a second statement the Obama campaign issued after that:

“It is the absolute height of hypocrisy for the McCain campaign to play the victim after launching attack after attack on Barack Obama for his strong and appropriate response to the conflict in Georgia, but it’s characteristic of the old Washington tactics that have failed the American people. Empty words about bipartisanship mean nothing just days after the McCain campaign accused Barack Obama of being ‘in sync with Moscow’ and not putting his country first. Senator Obama is focused on what the United States and the international community must do to resolve this crisis, not on the tired political games that have stood in the way of progress,” said Obama campaign spokesman Hari Sevugan.

That's nice. So when do we actually start fighting back?