Is this how desparate he’s become after today’s Gallup and Rasmussen polls? He’s played this card many-a-time before and never has it produced positive results. In fact, he stirred up serious controversy last time he tried the race card.
“I know that I’m not your typical presidential candidate,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told executives and employees of the Schott glass company Friday afternoon, “and I just want to be honest with you. I know that.”
“And I know that the temptation is to say, ‘You know what? …The guy hasn’t been there that long in Washington.,’ You know, ‘he’s got funny name,’ You know, ‘we’re not sure about him,’” Obama continued. “And that’s what the Republicans, when they say, ‘This isn’t about issues, it’s about personalities,’ what they’re really saying is, ‘We’re going to try to scare people about Barack. So we’re going to say that you know, maybe he’s got Muslim connections or we’re going to say that, you know, he hangs out with radicals or he’s not patriotic.’
Finding a Republican elected official or strategist that’s pushing those rumors is damn-near impossible. Can Obama even pull up the name of a reputable example? Doubtful. As Ed Morrissey notes, the McCain campaign even dumped an adviser that dared to link to a video of Jeremiah Wright via a personal Twitter account.
If he’s talking about some bloggers that inaccurately push those claims in the conservative blogosphere, then he’s accurate. However, Obama really doesn’t want to set the standard that bloggers=party strategists. Many lefty bloggers have spent the last week attacking Sarah Palin’s children and pushing conspiracy theories. Is he associated with that?
5. September 2008 at 10:20 pm
Not to change the subject, but could Obama be referring to his lack of executive experience as a “non-typical” candidate?
In our form of government we have a Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branch. Obama claims his “executive” experience was as a “community organizer.”
To expand on the definition of executive experience, please note that:
Executive experience, in part, means holding a position subject to responsibilities as prescribed by law, managing human resources, managing budgets and making decisions, which have the potential of affecting several to many people, or the public in general.
The Honorable Governor of the Great State of Alaska, Sarah Palin, has been a council person, a mayor, and now a governor. All of these are positions of intense responsibility.
Obama has NO executive experience.
Please view the article listed below, “Obama’s Community Roots,” which reads, “In 1985, freshly graduated from Columbia University and working for a New York business consultant, Barack Obama decided to become a community organizer. Though he liked the idea, he didn’t understand what the job involved, and his inquiries turned up few opportunities.”
The article continues elsewhere, “He discovered the importance of personal storytelling in politics …” And, “Despite some meaningful victories, the work of Obama–and hundreds of other organizers–did not transform the South Side or restore lost industries.”
The same article says, “A recent Los Angeles Times report contended that Obama overstated his own importance …”
Not really much to Obama’s “experience”; no definition of responsibilities, no results.
ARTICLE: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20070416/moberg.
I just learned that Mr. Obama was head of the Harvard Law Review. However, the ONLY article he appears to have written was on abortion. Wouldn’t you know it.
Barack Obama’s Sole Article in Harvard Law Review Promotes Abortion
http://www.lifenews.com/nat4184.html
Add to Obama’s lack of experience, a severe lack of judgment.