WHY are all the pundits trying to run Obama's campaign?
Why are all the pundits spending 50% of their time
speculating
WHAT OBAMA SHOULD SAY!
Every other sentence is:
"Obama should say this"
"What if Obama will say THIS"
"If Obama says THIS, will it be enough? Maybe he should say THAT"
I think they're all jealous. I think they want to be where Obama is. They can't believe what this guy is doing.
speculating
WHAT OBAMA SHOULD SAY!
Every other sentence is:
"Obama should say this"
"What if Obama will say THIS"
"If Obama says THIS, will it be enough? Maybe he should say THAT"
I think they're all jealous. I think they want to be where Obama is. They can't believe what this guy is doing.
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I'm guilty of the same thing.
I want Obama to step up.
I don't care if he has more pledged delegates.
Perception is everything.
I want to know that he's not going to let anyone take this nomination away from him.
I want Obama to say he will fight for this nomination with every fiber of his being.
Instead he seems dispassionate and removed.
It will cost him IN and NC.
I haven't given up on him but I want to know he hasn't given up on this election.
April 28, 2008 9:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
all politics is local, and the local media is more important on this stuff.
nobody at the rallies and town halls is asking about Wright.
he's playing the right ground game right now.
he might win by less than he could. but they're throwing everything they have at him, and he's staying cool and calm.
go to the website, the snippets from his two rallies are pretty heartwarming.
April 28, 2008 9:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
YOU MISUNDERSTOOD US
We never said we want to "run" Obama's campaign. We said his campaign was like a sick dog with the runs. There's a difference. You'll know as soon as you step out of the sludge.
Hang in there, someone will come back for you.
MSM
VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE
NOT YOUR WHITE GUILTY CONSCIENCE
April 29, 2008 2:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
memoryaid,
I'm loving your comments. I find myself just shaking my head at those posters and commenters here who presume to know better than Obama, Axelrod, Plouffe et al on how to run the Obama campaign.
This is not a new story. The "outsider" candidate gains traction, a they say, and the insiders, in this case the DLC and Clinton machine, take measures to end the outsider's campaign.
It was done to the Dean campaign in 2004, it was done to McCarthy in 1968, and I'm sure to other campaigns of which I am at the moment unable to recall.
April 28, 2008 9:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
A lot of it is from Hillary supporters who are "concerned" about Obama's campaign.
To borrow someone else's metaphor, it's like a basketball game in which the score is 110 to 100, with thirty seconds left in the game. The team that's ahead is slowing things down and running out the clock, and the supporters of the team that's behind are whining that the other team isn't running enough risky plays that would let them have a better chance of stealing the ball, etc.
April 28, 2008 9:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm proud to be an Obama supporter and a big chunk of that is because he's played this on his terms: even tempered, respectful, honest and explaining the work that needs to be done will not be done by a "he" or a "she", but can only be accomplished by a WE.
April 28, 2008 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why are they playing with my toys!?!?!?!
(whine, whine, whine)
April 28, 2008 10:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
I agree with much of what has been said here. And let's be frank - if Obama were getting rattled by everyone getting in the mix and trying to get him to change his campaign strategy, then he isn't the candidate he seems to be. I think that we as his supporters, are getting rattled and something, anything, would be better than sitting here watching him run out the clock while doing his ground strategy.
Look - he has done things. He had an impromptu press conference in NC with his plane's engines running to address questions about Wright. Axelrod was on Hardball giving a patient and painstaking interview to Chris 'One Note' Matthews. He has tweaked his stump speech. His campaign has sent out end of month fundraising notes. And everybody has just got to chill.
April 28, 2008 10:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
And this TOO shall pass.
April 28, 2008 10:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
A voice of reason.
April 28, 2008 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Old Politics vs. New style. People have been claiming they want more civil, we shall see if they were lying or not. Thats realy what its about. Yes, I lose patience with Obama, but I will not suggest that in a campaign race I know better than he does, and especially the people sorrounding him.
Plus, It's not often I agree with someone 100% of the time....I guess you can call it that I hopeing and have faith in the American people just as much as he does.
April 28, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Because "several associates and aides" of the Obama campaign purposely spoke to the New York Times' reporters Jeff Zeleny and Adam Nagourney on the topic and the Times put it on page A1 of the print edition today:
Eyes on Blue-Collar Voters, Obama Shifts Style
The Obama campaign wouldn't have done that if they didn't want pundits to talk about it. They want pundits and bloggers talking about him changing his campaign. (BTW, Greg Sargent's Election Central post on the article currently has 93 comments.)
April 28, 2008 11:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
we've been having stories about that the whole time, about all of the campaigns.
yet you don't hear them steering Clinton and McCain's campaigns nearly as much.
April 28, 2008 11:07 PM | Reply | Permalink