He’s no dummy.
“I am convinced that if there were no Fox News, I might be two or three points higher in the polls,” Obama told me. “If I were watching Fox News, I wouldn’t vote for me, right? Because the way I’m portrayed 24/7 is as a freak! I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal. Who wants somebody like that?
“I guess the point I’m making,” he went on, “is that there is an entire industry now, an entire apparatus, designed to perpetuate this cultural schism, and it’s powerful. People want to know that you’re fighting for them, that you get them. And I actually think I do. But you know, if people are just seeing me in sound bites, they’re not going to discover that. That’s why I say that some of that may have to happen after the election, when they get to know you.”
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“I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal.”
Glad he finally told us he was the metrosexual (so 90’s) we thought he was. He certainly has no record to run on.
“He’s no dummy.”
This is not news to anyone who’s been half-paying attention. Even Christopher Buckley noticed the reflective, probing intellect: “I’ve read his books.”
It’s interesting that he blames himself for the “bitter” remark, not because it was inaccurate in any way but because it could be distorted and used by the opposition. He’s been walking this circumspect line for 2 years now, requiring a kind of double intelligence, one to form thoughts, another to audition them mentally to discover any possible misinterpretations. Would exhaust anyone else.
I’ll be surprised if President Obama proves to be merely good, merely fine, once he clears out the Bush devastation. But that latter will consume a huge amount of time…
I prefer seeing the wingnuts growing desperate and crazed, rather than petulant and whiny like William here.
Oh, I don’t know, petulant and whiny is the reaction I prefer to see among those who do own guns.
Desperate & crazed gun-owning (not to mention beer-chugging, John-Birch-Society-reading, gas-guzzling, desperate-to-prove-masculinity, racist-misogynist-xenophobic and/or insecure) =/= physical safety for bystanders.
“He’s no dummy.”
Anyone paying attention could have told you that.
That’s too long of a quote.
Kiss mine too, Thick Willie.
Why did Obama and Clinton go on the Radio Factor? I know it’s not Fox but BO is the face of the Fox. I think they were politically smart to do so and Obama did good in the interview. Not afraid of the the fear factor. Showed his strength. The GOP won’t let Palin get near BO. Chicken shits.
By the same metric, if it wasn’t for CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and most of the newspapers, Obama would be about 10 to 15 percent down.
How DARE one media outlet NOT be on Obama’s side! The sheer effrontery!
J.
william:
“I am the latte-sipping, New York Times-reading, Volvo-driving, no-gun-owning, effete, politically correct, arrogant liberal.”
Glad he finally told us he was the metrosexual (so 90’s) we thought he was.
What a perfect, completely 180-degree mis-reading of what he actually said. Do you have to work at that, or does the myopia just come naturally with the little mind?
Jay Tea, you’ll have to point me to the CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and MSNBC one-hour specials called “McCain & Friends – A History Of Special Favors,” documenting the ways in which McCain has benefited from his name and has invoked it to be treated better than others, and how he also has done favors for those who benefited him.
The NYT magazine piece OW quotes has a lot about voters who live in rural areas. My family lives in a small town surrounded by forests and cattle ranches. I can’t be on a continuous call while on the way home from the nearest airport to my parents’ house, because cell coverage with every provider I’ve had — including Verizon and AT&T — will drop at several points. I wonder if the people who live in those rural areas with lousy cell phone coverage (many of whom own a chunk of property that they would happily give rent-free for a cellphone tower) will believe that the McCains were getting treated just like any other customer when Verizon and AT&T both hustled out portable towers normally reserved for emergencies to the McCains’ Sedona “cabin.”
Keep believing the myth of the liberal media, Jay Tea. You’re about as smart as a box of hair.
PG, would you settle for the New York Times studies of the two candidates? Compare and contrast the “McCain affair with lobbyist” story — based on two disgruntled former employees who said that they were worried about the appearance of impropriety between the two, and whose stories were utterly and absolutely denied by everyone else they said was involved in some alleged meeting — and the Times’ whitewash of Obama’s relationship with William Ayers.
Or, if you prefer, two words: Keith Olbermann.
J.
Oh, so there *hasn’t* been a one-hour special on any of the networks devoted to making McCain look bad? I just wanted to check in case I’d missed it.
The only people I see who are convinced that the NYTimes story was focused on McCain’s alleged affair are conservatives. Everyone else seems to have looked at the headline, “For McCain, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Its Own Risk,” the first four paragraphs about the appearance of impropriety in being too close to a lobbyist, and then went on to rehash the Keating Five scandal and how it turned McCain into Campaign Finance Reform Superhero, and thought, “Yeah, and…?” The word “affair” must have shown up only in the editions dropped at Republicans’ homes — except, wait, I live with a Republican. Hmm. Maybe only the less-rational Republicans’ homes.
“the McCain affair…”
The New York Times story in question did not accuse McCain of having an affair.
“the appearance of impropriety…”
So “impropriety” only involves adulterous affairs? Whatever.
“…the Times’ whitewash of Obama’s relationship with William Ayers…”
Heck, at least the Times has actually DONE a story on the two men’s relationship. Has the Times done any articles on McCain’s relationship with that wholesome figure G. Gordon Liddy (a relationsip which is much more buddy-buddy than the one between Obama and Ayers).
Keith Olbermann negates an entire cable news channel?
Compare and contrast the “McCain affair with lobbyist” story … and the Times’ whitewash of Obama’s relationship with William Ayers.
Pretty sure Ayers wasn’t fucking him for favors.
If every single media outlet in America is hard-left, why does the right so hate the Fairness Doctrine?
Jay Tea: Compare and contrast the “McCain affair with lobbyist” story …
Or, if you prefer, two words: Keith Olbermann.
Shorter JT: Believe my lies because I don’t have to check my facts. And “Look! Over there! (I don’t see any Fox.)”