Suzie
02-20-2008, 10:43 AM
Mark Davis: A week of gaffes has slowed Obamamania
Rolling campaign needs to recover after series of miscues
06:17 AM CST on Wednesday, February 20, 2008
As the Barack Obama Traveling Hope and Change Show pulls into Reunion Arena today, his campaign has to be looking for a change in the wind.
Hillary Clinton's prospects for winning our state March 4 are alive and well, partly because Texas Democrat politics and demographics favor her, and partly because Mr. Obama is having what professional observers call "a really bad week."
First came the harmless but odd YouTube montages of peculiar fainting spells at his campaign events, with the candidate repeatedly offering water and presumptuous claims that the fainter "will be all right."
Senator, healer, medical clairvoyant – and they say his résumé is thin.
Then came the sheepish admission of his theft of inspiring rhetoric from Deval Patrick's 2006 campaign for Massachusetts governor. Again, not a big deal, but an embarrassment an heir apparent to his party's presidential nomination does not need.
The topper came as Mr. Obama's wife delivered the shocking insult that nothing in the last 25 years had made her proud of America.
"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country," she said. That quote may be seen as a tribute to the history-making impact of her husband's ascendancy. Except that she said that was not the prime source of her newfound admiration for the country her husband seeks to lead. So one is left wondering where Michelle Obama has set the bar.
MORE HERE (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-markdavis_20edi.ART.State.Edition1.46347e1.html)
Do you think the fainting is a stage act?
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Rolling campaign needs to recover after series of miscues
06:17 AM CST on Wednesday, February 20, 2008
As the Barack Obama Traveling Hope and Change Show pulls into Reunion Arena today, his campaign has to be looking for a change in the wind.
Hillary Clinton's prospects for winning our state March 4 are alive and well, partly because Texas Democrat politics and demographics favor her, and partly because Mr. Obama is having what professional observers call "a really bad week."
First came the harmless but odd YouTube montages of peculiar fainting spells at his campaign events, with the candidate repeatedly offering water and presumptuous claims that the fainter "will be all right."
Senator, healer, medical clairvoyant – and they say his résumé is thin.
Then came the sheepish admission of his theft of inspiring rhetoric from Deval Patrick's 2006 campaign for Massachusetts governor. Again, not a big deal, but an embarrassment an heir apparent to his party's presidential nomination does not need.
The topper came as Mr. Obama's wife delivered the shocking insult that nothing in the last 25 years had made her proud of America.
"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country," she said. That quote may be seen as a tribute to the history-making impact of her husband's ascendancy. Except that she said that was not the prime source of her newfound admiration for the country her husband seeks to lead. So one is left wondering where Michelle Obama has set the bar.
MORE HERE (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-markdavis_20edi.ART.State.Edition1.46347e1.html)
Do you think the fainting is a stage act?
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