Get a Clue - Joe Klein

New Red Majority ^ | 8/8/08 | trumptman

[trumptman]

Some of us are not puzzled by this at all because many of us Republicans watched a few of the Democratic debates and noted how each time Obama was engaged, he lost a big state to Hillary Clinton. A smile, and a speech off a teleprompter won't save you when you have to engage and argue your ideas with someone else. Every supposed strength of Obama, as you noted, is played up by these interactions and also, as you noted it could and should break the campaign wide open by putting that distance between him and McCain, or putting him over the magical 50% mark. Only it never did in the Democratic primary and that was an case where policy differences were small and personality traits were magnified. In otherwords, he couldn't do it when the circumstances were ideal.

So instead of being puzzled, instead of questioning reality, question your biases and preconceptions. Sen. Obama does not have a better command of the facts. His positions are inconsistent. He gives a good speech, raises gobs of money and mostly hopes that the occasional biased nudges of fawning interviews, photo ops and slanted polls helps him falsely claim and attempt to maintain a momentum that doesn't exist.

[BOATSNM8]

I can’t wait for the debates!

[griswold3]

I hope Barack keeps telling folks that making fun of his ‘tire pressure’ plan is ‘ignorant’!