Thursday, July 24, 2008
Obama's Overplaying His Hand
Is it just me or has the Obama world tour fallen flat on it's face? I think it was a good idea for him to move around the Middle East and learn. Where he's gone wrong is turning it into an obnoxious photo-op smacking of presumption. The fact his poll numbers haven't budged tell me the American people know a snow job when they see it. A little more modesty would go a long way in the Obama camp. His arrogance is keeping McCain in the game.
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Ummm....a little too warm for snow,just yet. Obama is not overplaying his hand -- the media is more breathless about his tour than the general public; but then the general public usually shares a collective yawn about anything international (except for Tsunamis, earthquakes, the twins, etc.) The polls remaining fairly flat indicate to me that it will be the VP choices, the debates, and possibly the August infomercials which will start to shake things up.
BTW, the transcript of Obama's Brandenburg Gate speech is quite good; have you read it?
The opening of Bob Herbert's editorial in the NY Times yesterday
says it best.
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Let’s see if I’ve got this straight. Barack Obama is a United States senator, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and his party’s candidate for president of the United States — and yet it was somehow presumptuous of him to meet with foreign leaders last week during his trip to the Middle East and Europe.
I’ll say this about Senator Obama. He sure raises people’s hackles. I’ve never seen anyone so roundly criticized for such grievous offenses as giving excellent speeches and urging people of different backgrounds to take a chance on working together. How dare he? And 200,000 people turned out to hear him in Berlin. Unforgivable.
The man has been taken to task for promoting hope, threatened with mutilation by Jesse Jackson for suggesting that a lot of black fathers could do better by their kids and had his patriotism called into question because he wants to wind down a war that most Americans would dearly love to be rid of.
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