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Obama’s Biggest Obstacle To The White House
Will it be his own potentially self-defeating hubris? It could well be… The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank:
Barack Obama has long been his party’s presumptive nominee. Now he’s becoming its presumptuous nominee.
Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday.
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WARNING TO OBAMA: If you read accounts of the 1948 Presidential election, President Thomas Dewey gave off a feeling that he had already won, too. (Oops! That should be just Thomas Dewey…who wound up coasting and helped make Harry Truman an appealing underdog..)
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11 Responses to “Obama’s Biggest Obstacle To The White House”
Does anyone take Dana Milbank seriously anymore? He's becoming the Maureen Dowd of the Washington Post. He even rambles when he has his guest shot on Countdown. I actually mute the TV when I see him coming.
Check your facts Joe before you post. This has ALREADY been debunked.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Spi…
http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/20…
Not only did Milbank purposefully edit the quotes to distort the meaning, but he got his facts wrong, too. Typical McBush supporter. If the facts don't agree with what you want to believe, just make them up. To reference this WaPo hit piece without recognizing the factual inaccuracy is disgusting.
I don't think Milbank is a McBush supporter. He's just trying to stir up controversy dishonestly.
Obama has been known to be cocky in the past but this trip wasn't cocky.
I don't think Obama is cocky…necessarily. He's too careful for that, too calculating to give off that appearance. If he senses people think he's cocky, he'll shift and become passive. If he senses people think he's too passive, he'll suddenly “get firm” on issues. He is whatever he thinks he needs to be to acheive his goal.
And that is what is worrisome. This time around more than any other time we need a rock solid president with a plan you can hang your hat on. Mr. Waffles isn't going to pull that off. The germans are right, he looks great on the surface but the worry is (if) when he steps into the Oval Office.
With the Larry Sinclair thing looming though we should turn our worries instead to what McCain has planned for the Oval Office.
There is one vote that does loom for Obama before the November one.
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Is this a call for four more years of President Bush?
What we need is a president with GOOD plans.
If your hero, Hillary, were half as smart as you say she is, why hasn't she secured the nomination on the back of these Larry Sinclair allegations? (Oh no, I just threw your entire world off its axis!)
Joe has fallen into the warnings trap.
Before Obama went on his trip, the media and blogs were ablaze with warnings; he shouldn't do this, he should watch out for that.
Before he spoke in Berlin, we were swimming in warnings: he shouldn't say this, he should be sure to say that or else terrible things will happen.
After the speech, the same avalanche of warnings: this or that bad thing could result from every spoken word.
All of it adds up to one underlying message: Obama can't be trusted to make his own judgment calls. In so far as this undermines trust in Obama, the persistence of warnings is either deliberately planned to diminish his stature and his chances or it's a well-meaning but counterproductive exercise in self-aggrandizement: the 'I know better' fantasy.
Enough already with the warnings. Can we spend a few moments to digest today's news and remark on Obama's achievments, without shaking in fear about what might, or MIGHT NOT, happen tomorrow as it can be attributed directly to Obama?
Speaking of tomorrow, it does call the sincerity of the alarm bell ringers into question, when nothing good, EVER, is predicted?
In the meantime, McCain swims by, untouched by dire warnings.
Why aren't alarm bells ringing when he says the most startling, furture-determining things about wars, the dissolution of the UN and the pursuit of US's unitary dominance of the universe? The man is still fighting the Viet Nam war in his mind, for heaven's sakes. Doesn't that warrant a few high alarm warnings?
Enough already. More than enough.
I agree with Milbank. We definitely do not want one of the major party candidates talking with governmental officials to learn more about the country he is seeking to run. Candidates should keep themselves as ill-informed as possible, or at least, if they do meet with someone with knowledge, they should keep it to themselves.
Silhouette is always a good laugh.
This article is crap. Milbank doesn't even make the case well, not to mention the misquote.