[PogySailor]

Having the media in your pocket certainly helps. My opinion is that Obama makes conflicting statements to have soundbites to buttress his case, no matter which side he's arguing from. Because in the end it's all about maintaining power.

In front of a audience that wants Gitmo closed? There's plenty of those past statements to refer to,

In front of an audience that wants Gitmo to stay open? He's made statements for that argument also.

But the kool-aid drinkers never seem to catch on.

[Alas Babylon!]

Having the media in your pocket certainly helps.

Actually, it makes all the difference in the world!

IF we had a fair, non-biased media, his words would come back to haunt him in those very same sound bites to the point that he would have lower poll numbers than Dubya.

Lets all face up to the fact that the media is calling the shots and who they chose to support in today's entertainment-based world of superstar politics is totally perverting our government.

Our enemy is the media. They are liars, tellers of half-truths, ignorers of facts contrary to their storyline, and disrespectful of and antagonistic to the half of the country that share our values.

[dennisw]

Having the media in your pocket certainly helps. My opinion is that Obama makes conflicting statements to have soundbites to buttress his case, no matter which side he's arguing from. Because in the end it's all about maintaining power.

The media is his Ministry of Propaganda
I have told people that John McCain would have won if he had the media in his pocket the way 0boma did

[maica]

He not only speaks differently to different audiences, he supports both sides of an issue in the same speech - often in the same long rambling sentence.

So everyone listening to him, hears something that they like, and they relax, thinking “he does agree with me.”

“Everyone” even includes pundits on fox news who refused to face the reality of the man’s modus operandi.

“On the other hand” is probably the Dunham/Obama family motto.