Some Cheese with that Whine?
April 17th, 2008 at 09:41pm Geoff
Sen. Obama has taken to whining about the questioning in last night’s debate with Sen. Clinton as a means of diverting attention from his less than inspirational performance. He shouldn’t. He is running for President of the United States after all, possibly the most important and consequential position in this country and in the world. It is inescapable that campaigns for this office are going to be absolute meat grinders and for good reason, as there are few other mechanisms and manners through which voters can determine whether a candidate is prepared for it.
Complaining about this only fuels greater suspicion that Sen. Obama is not prepared. Jim Geraghty made a good point today in writing that “if Barack Obama can’t handle questions like this from Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopolous, maybe the portrait of the cracking-under-pressure whiner depicted in the Saturday Night Live sketck isn’t as wild an exaggeration as we thought.”
As it stands, some of the questions asked last night may have been small and largely irrelevant, but such is the nature of a presidential campaign, especially one that has been as long and interminable as this one. Questions over his associations with Rev. Wright and William Ayers, as well as his recent comments about small-town Americans, on the other hand, were entirely legitimate and ones he will have to answer throughout this campaign until he does so sufficiently. He only diminishes himself by complaining about this.
Presidential campaigns are tough, and this one will only get tougher as the race matures. The presidency will be tougher still. If Sen. Obama cannot cope with that he should have never gotten in. As the saying goes, if you can’t run with the big dogs than stay on the porch.
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4 Comments
1. Joe | April 18th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Wow… 5 straight posts here about Obama.
A Promise of Hope and Change
Some Cheese with that Whine?
Barack Obama, Teflon Man?
Some Clarification
Hamas Endorses Barack Obama
Nothing worthwhile to talk about with McCain?
Hey… I heard Obama wasn’t wearing his flag lapel pin today.
2. Geoff | April 18th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
I know Sen. Obama & his supporters, such as yourself, Joe, don’t like it when people actually look at him deeper than his pleasing platitudes, but with all the attention being focused on the still undetermined Democratic race and the fact that Sen. Obama has only begun to be examined in any meaningful detail, that’s exactly what is going to happen.
3. KMorrison | April 19th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I thought the media’s reaction to the debate showed exactly how ‘In the Bag’ they are for Obama. There wasn’t nealy this much complaining about the weak CNN/YouTube Republican Debate.
BTW Joe, ‘A Promise of Hope and Change’ was just as much about Senator McCain as it was Senator Obama.
4. NJ McCain | April 21st, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Good luck in PA, Joe! Your candidate will really need it.
http://www.drudgereport.com/flashpa.htm