Can Barack Obama “Talk His Way Into The Presidency?”
The Pheonix’s Steven Stark looks at Barack Obama’s campaign and as some suggestions.
Here’s the opening of his must-read piece:
The press — or some of it — at least some of it have put Barack Obama on the road to oblivion. When the candidate responded, at the July 23 CNN/YouTube Democratic debate, that he would meet with rogue foreign leaders during his first year in office, much of the media excoriated him — even though his statement was met with applause, and a subsequent poll showed a large majority of Democratic voters agreed with him. Michael Goodwin of the New York Daily News even wrote recently that Obama “is starting to get that last call feeling. He has to know his presidential campaign is running out of time.â€
Yet Obama’s not nearly in as bad shape as the press suggests. Yes, Hillary Clinton has a substantial lead in the national polls, but Obama isn’t far off her heels in several of the opening states that count — Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Further, he’s sitting on a ton of cash and has a large institutional base of support in the black community. Write him off at your peril.
Nevertheless, it wouldn’t hurt for Obama to make some mid-course corrections as we head into the fall campaign. Here are three suggestions:
Read is entire column to find out the details.
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5 Responses to “Can Barack Obama “Talk His Way Into The Presidency?””
[...] View original post here: Joe Gandelman [...]
Because this post follows the one about Bush’s comments overseas about Congress, my rating of Obama just shot way, way up. The contrast in style is striking.
The contrast between Hillary and Budh – less so.
In the past, I looktd to substance over persona.
But I appreciate the tone and aura spect more with each day.
Keep on talking, Obama!
The way Obama got blasted for saying he’d meet with foreign leaders wasn’t nearly so much as two other facts:
1) Hillary’s lame rationale that she’d shy away because it would present some type of photo op for those foreign leaders and
2) The media being amazed at her “experience” because of that.
Basically Clinton said she’d put off dealing with people we need to deal with because there might be some bad PR. If there was any comment that convinced me she is a typical DC politician, that was it. As if Obama wouldn’t go thru normal diplomatic processes, instead just jetting down to Venuzuela like Cindy Sheehan or something. Good grief.
This man does not pledge to our flag,
HOW COULD THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ELECT HIM ?
And he said he would not wear the pin because someone else was unpatriotic with it on their lapel, SUCH BULL.
Is this a personal choice, or is it religiously motivated ?.
What he does by not pledging to our flag is WAY
oop’s cont This man does not pledge to our flag,
HOW COULD THE AMERICAN PUBLIC ELECT HIM ?
unpatriotic of him in my eyes and wont do us any good,much like what Hillary would be.
That is how not to be American, the proof is in the puddin.
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