Posted on 07/20/2008 9:04:22 PM PDT by yankeedame
Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:09:03 pm PDT
Christoph von Marschall of Germany’s Der Tagesspiegel says the Barack Obama campaign has been making sure Obama doesn’t have to answer any real questions from the international media: Snubbed by Obama.
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Barack Obama is on his way to Europe, where an adoring public awaits. But I wonder if the reception would be quite so enthusiastic if Obama’s fans across the Atlantic knew a dirty little secret of his remarkable presidential campaign: Although Obama portrays himself as the best candidate to engage the rest of the world and restore America’s image abroad, and many Americans support him for that reason, so far he has almost completely refused to answer questions from foreign journalists.
When the press plane leaves tonight for his trip, there will be, as far as I know, no foreign media aboard.
The Obama campaign has refused multiple requests from international reporters to travel with the candidate.
As a German correspondent in Washington, I am accustomed to the fact that American politicians spare little of their limited time for reporters from abroad. This is understandable: Our readers, viewers and listeners cannot vote in U.S. elections.
Even so, Obama’s opponents have managed to make at least a small amount of time for international journalists. John McCain has given many interviews. Hillary Clinton gave a few.
President Bush regularly holds round-table interviews with media from the countries to which he travels. Only Obama dismisses us so consistently.
This spring Obama allowed at least one foreign reporter on trips to Ohio and Texas. But as the campaign has progressed, access has become more difficult for foreign correspondents. E-mail inquiries get no reply, phone calls are not returned.
My colleagues and I know: We are last in line. We don’t matter.
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My take: his staff is desperately worried that the candidate will make a gaffe, as soon as he ventures into uncharted territory. Foreign reporters tend to ask questions about ... you know ... foreign stuff.
The foreign press goes under the bus...
Guess Obama’s afraid they will ask tougher questions than the “Big 3” liberal media who will follow him around like a puppy, and try to make him look good.
Maybe they’ll ask him to speak some French, or some German.
Or ask him about the “oil-rich Straits of Hormuz.”
They have not paid the Messiah enough money yet. Once they buy into the campaign with cash contributions the will be part of the team.
“My take: his staff is desperately worried that the candidate will make a gaffe, as soon as he ventures into uncharted territory. Foreign reporters tend to ask questions about ... you know ... foreign stuff.”
In other words....Obama is a few eggs short of a dozen.
Yes. The foreign press are an unknown to the Obama campaign and they may ask the “wrong question” that the messiah may stumble over.
It's a toss up
-PJ
Little Obomba is afraid of questions. The future leader of the free world is clueless.
The Obama campaign must have noticed that their candidate’s knowledge base is neither wide nor deep. And on foreign territory, that would become even more apparent.
I bet we’re missing out of some great gaffes.
“Yah think the USA MSM will figure out that they are being taken by nobama for the perky whores that they are??”
Lol, but I think most whores know how they’ll be treated, and expect it.
Kings are not required to answer questions.
A few scales short of a herring?
Why does this tool get to parade around like he is already President while we pay for his security?
Hey, Christoph, welcome to the world of liberal Democrats where you are a non-entity if you are perceived as having nothing to further their cause. You are the journalistic equivalent of a lump of unviable tissue mass.
Well then, pray for the whores but not the whore that the MSM is for the nobama.
sounds to me like Obama is afraid the European press will ask him a question he isn’t prepared for. Since the poor guy can’t string together an coherent sentence without a teleprompter, this might be a wise move, to keep his “reputation” intact.
hee hee!
good one.
As my hubby likes to say “dummer’n a box a rocks!”
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