And by the way...
It's perfectly appropriate to ask someone when they've stopped beating their wife if the wife is in the emergency room covered with bruises from the guy's baseball bat.
Every word of Cooke's statement is true.
The Democrats won this election with their usual shitstorm, a consistent barrage of personal attacks, rumors, distortions, outright lies, and the rest. Look at the ads. Look at the "controversies." Look at Obama's speeches.
It's not like this is new. Obama has won all his major elections by the politics of personal destruction. Look at the Illinois record. Look at 2008.