Just in case…
Posted on July 21st, 2008 at 5:33 pm by Contributor ArchiveAs the three network news anchors follow Barack Obama to the middle east, the squawking heads have been debating whether it is “newsworthy.” Overboard coverage of a trip? Media feeding frenzy?
Not necessarily.
I think (I’ve got the Kevlar on) the net-weights may be there for the same reason Hillary stayed in the race so long: It just may be a case of “just in case.”
By the way, J Mac’s “astonishment” at Obama’s never having been to Afghanistan astonished this writer. It seems J Mac’s “stunned and amazed” cells were on vacation when GW Bush took the reins of the world’s last superpower without ever having left its borders. His first foreign trip? To Mexico.
Can’t t y p e an y mor e,,, laugggghing tooo hard.
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Hmmm. I don’t know what is better coverage…Obama in the Middle East or McCain in Maine. Obama with Iraqi officials or McCain with Bush Sr. Fitting.
Obama already has his mind made up without having the facts from the boots on the ground. One trip doesn’t equal experience for someone so close-minded.
SA, your W and Obama comparison is so apples and oranges you ought to be in the produce business.
The world is a different place than it was when W and Dick beat Gore and Joe in 2000.
Honestly, it’s a silly comparison to say “But wait, wait! W didn’t have experience either! Ha ha!”
We weren’t at war then and our perceptions and assumptions were based largely on Clinton’s lousy intelligence (in more ways than one).
Why do we need more experience in 2008 than Obama had? Because the world looks a heckuva lot different now.
Obama would have been a GREAT candidate and president in 1976. (Oh wait, we had him already.)