When you start just focusing exclusively on trying to tear the other person down instead of what you are going to do on behalf of the American people to deal with this economy, then that’s not serving Democrats, that’s not serving Republicans, that’s not serving anybody.
BARACK OBAMA, speech, Sep. 6, 2008
“But as long as it’s serving me, who cares?”
Obama decries “trying to tear the other person down instead of what you are going to do . . . with this economy” — keeping his eye on the real target.