Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Kristen Breitweiser has Obama nailed


Recently I've stayed away from Huffington Post, since it's now All Obama, All the Time. This post is different, though. Go ahead and read the whole thing. Here are some of the best parts:

In August when the Republican attack ads unroll with a screaming, ranting, raving, railing, and dancing like a chicken lunatic Reverend Wright juxtaposed with an angry Obama with an outstretched pointing finger overlayed by Obama's voice saying that he can't disown Wright anymore than he can disown his grandmother, will the superdelegates feel good and justified about their decision to try and kick Hillary out of the race before she won a state like West Virginia or Kentucky? Will those same superdelegates apologize for their bad judgment in thinking a candidate who lost 40% of the Democratic vote in a state primary -- a mere 5 months before Election Day -- should even still qualify to be the best candidate in a general election?

Will those superdelegates admit bad judgment in voting for the candidate that "said" he had good judgment but turned out to have bad judgment once he was aptly defined by the likes of Karl Rove? Because as of May 14, 2008, Barack Obama has yet to successfully define himself to the American people -- he is too busy defining John McCain.

Now, I don't agree with everything Breitweiser says -- McCain is not a real outsider or a real agent of change, he simply has media enablers helping him spread that image.

Overall, though, I think she correctly spells out some of the problems with Obama's campaign.

Like I've said before, if Obama is nominated, I want to support him. He's got work to do if he expects to prevail in the general election, though -- Breitweiser is right about that.

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